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• New Yorkers may consume more hot dogs than other Americans, but ballpark goers will eat enough at major league ballparks this year to stretch to and from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., the two sites of the 2008 World Series.

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• New Yorkers may consume more hot dogs than other Americans, but ballpark goers will eat enough at major league ballparks this year to stretch to and from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., the two sites of the 2008 World Series.
• But what exactly is a hot dog? References to sausage go back as far as Homer, and it is likely that the frankfurter was the grandfather of the eventual “weiner” dog (possibly named after Vienna – Wein – Austria from whence it came). However, others suggest that the term might have come from “dachshund sausage,” “dog wagons,” (that delivered the fares to college students) or even from street vendors hawking them from portable hot water tanks.
• In any case, the hot dog as we know it first appeared in ballparks 1893, and they have remained popular ever since. Humphrey Bogart once said, “A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.”
• Pre-Kobayshi, the record for hot dogs consumed in 12 minutes was 25. Kobayshi – at the time, 23 years old and weighing in at 131 pounds – consumed 50 hot dogs in the same amount of time.

As an intermittent hot dog blogger, I have failed to provide any feedback regarding the eating of real hot dogs. This will soon change. Next weekend promises to be a day of epic gastronomical proportions, as I will be dining at both Hot Doug's and Moto. The hot dog-related focus will obviously come from Hot Doug's, but Moto has also been known to serve a dish that tastes like a hot dog but looks like something else very unrelated, or serve this for dessert:

Moto Dog

It's strawberry sorbet topped with various gelees and lemon curd "mustard" encased in a buttery cake bun. Pictures will also accompany this future post. Stay tuned.

Multiple postings in one month?! I guess it's because hot dogs are hot in Q4.

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Talk Like A Physicist » Blog Archive » How physicists make lunch - Tesla Coil to cook hot dogs and

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“Only Neanderthals use flames to cook, and microwave is so 20th century; let’s use high powered laser beams to make coffee.”No. It is coffee that makes high power laser beam.“Here is a clearer picture of Tesla coil cooking hot dogs.”You intentionally confuse the public. It is the evidence how Tesla coil create the micro-blackholes which propagate towards the center of Earth to eat it.

I've watched the YouTube footage and you can't really tell that they're actually cooking the hot dogs. The close-up pics clearly show that they are indeed cooking hot dogs.

I'm a huge fan of the show Top Chef and in last night's episode, the Elimination Challenge was to create your own hot dog. I've included a clip that includes the the bit about it:

The winner of the Elimination challenge, Radhika, did an Indian take on the hot dog, doing a kabob style with lamb, pork and ground chuck. The fixings on top were caramelized onions, cucumbers, and tomato jam.

One of the two runner-ups, Fabio (my personal favorite!), had a Mediterranean spin on the hot dog. He made an andouille sausage hot dog with goat cheese, and roasted bell pepper, topped with sun-dried tomatoes.

The other runner-up, Hosea, did a pork hot dog with smoked bacon, roasted pepper, roasted jalapenos, and red vinegar.

Hotdog funeral

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