The Hot Dog Event Of The Year
THANK YOU from the bottom of our greasy, cholesterol-clogged hearts for all your participation & great energy at the Hot Dog Death March! You all made this party rock!
And more than anyone, thank you to Julia for all your hard work, schlepping, making, buying and just generally kicking hella mad ass. You made the HDDM happen!!!
See you soon, everyone! We’ve got more plans a-brewin’, and plan to have more t-shirts in case you didn’t get one…so check this blog in a few days!
HOLY COW! What a day we had! Speaking for myself (Julia) I’m wiped out but what a great time we had. Thank you all so much for making it a BLAST! I believe we had up to 50 people at one point! Well done.
Also a huge thanks to all of you at Pink’s and Oki-Dog and Skooby’s. I don’t think Oki-Dog knew what hit them!
Lastly, this couldn’t have been done without Lucinda’s amazing energy and ideas and PR! We were all over the papers and blogs and she came up with the great Oki-Dog Cavity Search (Scavenger Hunt). Brilliant!
There will be much more to come and if you have photos you took, please send them to myself or Lucinda or post them to the HDDMLA Flickr group!
Best of all, we received $176 in donations toward a toilet in India!
Rock the dog!
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Unless the Twitpocalypse happens, we’ll be tweeting all along the way!
Thanks specifically to Lesley Bargar Suter for giving us a mention on the Digest Blog!
Check out the full posting here.
Lesley, we’d be happy to buy you a Thank You Hot Dog on Saturday!
Look, if this guy is going to be at Hot Dog Death March, what is stopping you from coming?!
Are you as ready as he is?
Finally! Our fashionable headwear has arrived.
It’s actually pretty horrifying…as with all things hot dog-related, really.
Hat tip to LAist for bringing it to our attention.
My standard dog comes with ketchup and mustard and relish. I’ll have sauerkraut sometimes, instead of relish, if it’s available and I’m in the mood. When I was a kid, it was ketchup only. If I get a wild hair, chili dog works just fine. If I’m making the dogs myself, I like them extra crispy on the grill. My husband likes his with mustard only. Sometimes with slices of cheese. Recently he likes it with relish, but feels that might be temporary.
I’ve eaten turkey dogs and tofu dogs and polish sausage dogs and Dodger Dogs and Nathan’s Famous on Coney Island. I have a fantasy of going on a road trip and stopping at any and every hot dog stand we pass. Just cuz.
How do you like your dog?
I will never forgive myself for not making it to Tail O’ The Pup while it was still there. Even after its heartbreaking demise, however, LA is rife with hot dogs.
MY personal favorite is Skooby’s in Hollywood, thanks to Brian introducing me to its garlic aioli.
And to be frank (har har), I loathe Pink’s. I’m ever-mystified by the line that stretches around the shack & up the street. Why in God’s name would anyone wait for one of these things?
I have never been to Oki Dog but have heard fascinating tales of its place in LA punk history, and of its owner, and of the weird way in which its weenies are served.
What’s YOUR fave hot dog joint? Why?
Glorp!
Attention, ladies & gentlemen–oh, who am I kidding–attention, broads & sweatpants-wearing couch jockeys: the day you’ve sat around waiting for, thinking, “Gosh, I wish someone would force-feed me 6,540 calories in one day”–well, that day has arrived. In short order. Or more appropriately, order at counter.
Suggested supplies to stockpile include Pepto, Tums, Zantac, soda water and prescription pain medication.
Stand by for further communiques.
