Block that Innuendo

Monica Eng gets this year's Sex is Food award for her piece in yesterday's Trib on the $18 Kobe beef hot dog at Rockit.

Just a few of the gems: "impressive girth," "can you say first-date icebreaker," and the clincher, "sometimes it's not the quality of the meat that matters, it's the story that you'll be able to tell your friends later."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain ... genews-utl

Anybody else remember that ad that used to be in the airline magazines for the low-rent Vegas casino that tried to get you to show up by offering a free footlong dog... the gimmick of the ad being that the dog was too big to even fit in the ad at actual size (a point the copy made over and over and over...)

I suppose in the end, that footlong dog cost a lot of people a lot more than $18.

Not to mention the opening line.

"It was certainly the biggest wiener I'd ever seen."

Got a chuckle out of me.

Mike G wrote:Anybody else remember that ad that used to be in the airline magazines for the low-rent Vegas casino that tried to get you to show up by offering a free footlong dog... the gimmick of the ad being that the dog was too big to even fit in the ad at actual size (a point the copy made over and over and over...)

I suppose in the end, that footlong dog cost a lot of people a lot more than $18.

I believe you're referring to the Westward Ho Megadog, which weighed in at 3/4 lb.

All I remember is that it was too big to fit on the page! Yes, that's right, when you visit the casino, you can enjoy, free, a hot dog so big, it can't even fit on this page! Just think, a hot dog so huge... a meal in itself... that we can't even show it actual size on this page!

Fujisan wrote:

Mike G wrote:Anybody else remember that ad that used to be in the airline magazines for the low-rent Vegas casino that tried to get you to show up by offering a free footlong dog... the gimmick of the ad being that the dog was too big to even fit in the ad at actual size (a point the copy made over and over and over...)

I suppose in the end, that footlong dog cost a lot of people a lot more than $18.

I believe you're referring to the Westward Ho Megadog, which weighed in at 3/4 lb.

I've had that dog, or at least a couple of bites of it. It is probably the worst thing I have ever eaten. It tasted like damp cardboard.

On the bright side, it taught me that the "prop comedy" approach to lunch is often a misguided one. Never again.

Vegas casinos, unsurprisingly, seem to be a hotbed for such decadent (and tasteless) attention-grabbing meaty treats.

My father and I took a trip to Vegas in the wake of Pulp Fiction, only to find that the Tropicana was advertising a Big Kahuna Burger. It turned into one of those "well, I suppose we have to try that" scenarios. Sadly, the Big Kahuna Burger was a pretty vile concoction. The hook was that it was a double that sported one beef patty and one turkey patty, which struck me as harmless if a little gratuitous. But the nature of the beast(s) aside, it was just a lousy sandwich. It was assumed that after the first bite, one of us would be forced to exclaim, "Mmmm.... that IS a tasty burger!", but neither of us could muster up enough goodwill to do so.

/rambling tangent

Dmnkly wrote:Vegas casinos, unsurprisingly, seem to be a hotbed for such decadent (and tasteless) attention-grabbing meaty treats.

My father and I took a trip to Vegas in the wake of Pulp Fiction, only to find that the Tropicana was advertising a Big Kahuna Burger. It turned into one of those "well, I suppose we have to try that" scenarios. Sadly, the Big Kahuna Burger was a pretty vile concoction. The hook was that it was a double that sported one beef patty and one turkey patty, which struck me as harmless if a little gratuitous. But the nature of the beast(s) aside, it was just a lousy sandwich. It was assumed that after the first bite, one of us would be forced to exclaim, "Mmmm.... that IS a tasty burger!", but neither of us could muster up enough goodwill to do so.

/rambling tangent

But you could have gone nearly around the corner onto Sahara for an In 'N Out burger. Now that is a tasty burger!