BRING ME YR LARGEST HOT DOG, PLEASE

[defrog]

ITEM [via BoingBoing]: As an American living overseas, I get lots of questions from locals who are planning to visit the USA for a holiday or business trip and need traveling tips like: “Where can I get me a 3.5 pound hot dog?”

Easy. Just go to Hillbilly Hotdogs in West  Virginia and order a Homewrecker.

What’s a Homewrecker, you ask? That’s a deep-fried 15", 1-pound dog with peppers, onions, nacho cheese, chili sauce, jalapenos, mustard, ketchup, coleslaw, tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Yrs for $14.99 – or free of charge if you can eat it in under four minutes. (Finish it in under 12 minutes and you get a free t-shirt.)

As seen on the Food Network.

DISCLAIMER: I love hot dogs. And I love diner/drive-in food culture as a concept, as well as a lot of the food associated with it. I also like the Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives segments – they uncover some cool restaurants from time to time. But I watch stuff like this and I think to myself, “See, THIS is why we can’t afford a national healthcare system.”

I’d go on, but Bill Maher did it for me a year ago.

BONUS TRACK: Five more hot dogs that will also probably kill you.

Damn. Now I’m hungry. And I could go for a Superdawg about now. Those of you in Chicago, pls send one by air mail.

Hot diggety dog,

This is dF

Comments

[lorilori.livejournal.com]

I love and hate Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I think it's entertaining, but on the other it's so damn gross watching people gorge on food that is so f'in bad for them. I'm at that age where I'm watching my cholesterol in take a lot. And I'm betting the host keels over from a heart attack during a taping.

And I've had no good hotdog since Chubby Weiner last summer. I did have something that looked like a hotdog at Target while shopping. It was a hotdog before sitting on the warmer for 4.5 hrs.

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

I'm at that age too. Twenty years ago, I'd have watched a show like this and said, "ROAD TRIP!" Even today, I'm hardly a poster boy for healthy eating and nutrition, but even I know that eating a four-pound hotdog loaded with goop is bad for you. The only way I'd order one of those npw is if I had at least three other people to split it with me.