Punk Planet dot com - hot dogs

It will happen soon

Nora Rocket — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:38:32 -0400

For a long time, my favorite thing in Chicago was the painted window on a certain storefront underneath the Western brown line station: "Chubby Wieners...It Will Happen Soon!" It just had this very portentious feel about it. I know they used this somewhat baroque phrasing to avoid telling us that a wiener would be coming, but that never lessened my delight. I loved how heavy the announcement seemed, how certain: it WILL happen, and SOON.

I'm thinking about the Chubby Wieners sign this week, because things in my life are reaching the It Will Happen Soon point. My options are opening up, change is on the way; could be, who knows. It kicked off three days ago when the job I put in for, and about which I am still reluctant to speak, called me about an interview. So I'm busting down to New York on Tuesday night for a Wednesday afternoon interview with the head of the sales department and the head of HR. I am now an official candidate for this position, and I have the three-page job application form and background check authorization paperwork to prove it.

rattlesnake sausage

anne elizabeth moore — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:14:35 -0400

of all the things in the world that are going crazy right now, the fact that i live in a world where rattlesnake sausage is still a possiblity—not one i will personally enjoy in terms of eating it—comforts me on a very basic level:

http://www.hotdougs.com/specials.htm

come join us for lunch, Internet!

Free Hot Doug!!

Sinker — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:40:00 -0400

So the other shoe dropped on our good friend Hot Doug yesterday--the City of Chicago fined him $250 for defying their ban on foie gras (a word that, no matter how many times I type it, I can not spell). more info

He's getting a good deal of attention (and probably selling a bunch of tasty dogs to boot), but I thought it'd be nice to make a shirt to commemorate the prosecution of perhaps the nicest hot dog vendor on the planet and give any profits off it (about $2 a shirt) to Doug to give to a cause of his choosing.

Believe in people's ability to decide what they eat on their own? Buy one!

http://www.cafepress.com/freehotdoug

Hot Doug fought the law...

Sinker — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:39:39 -0500

... and the law won.

Good friend and hot-dog wunderkind of Chicago, Doug Sohn, has just been served with the first official citation in the city for violating the foie gras ban.

He'd been warned previously--the sternly-worded letter was displayed proudly in a frame on his countertop right next to the Milwaukee Brewers racing sausage bobbleheads--but the cops showed up Friday morning to slap him with the citation, which can carry a fine of up to $500. They even sealed his foie gras as evidence!