I am astounded at BC's ability to keep the thread on topic during this entire dialogue about weiners and sticks

If anybody tries to put a stick in my weiner I'll punch them right in the face.

I did bury my weiner yesterday. It's been a looooong time since I've been able to say that.

That better SL?

Yes, thanks. I don't feel like it's Friday without BC's well placed inuendo.

I nominate this for post of the day.

It is a corn dog a stick! No, I'm not from Minnesota- I'm in the South.

We do it as a fundraiser for my husband's team- he's a coach. Last year was my first year to work it as he had a parent get ill. I asked him to never put me on the list again.

They taste good- it was just the interior of the Pronto Pup stand that made me want to . Think no running water to wash your hands and nothing to clean grease and such with. I could say more but I don't want to gross anyone out too bad.

So, did you compost the weiner?

BC, did you like my lovely song?

Hey I have man-eating house cats in my neighborhood. Bring it on!!

I liked the first version. The second brought me to my knees.

They may not all be like this but the company we go through is like this. They have around 17 stands at our local fair and I'd have to believe that all of their stands are like that.

No running water, no gloves to wear. You're in this trailer and there is like 6 of you in there- one of which works for the company who owns the stand- and she cooks. Drops tongs on the floor?? Sticks it back in the grease to "kill the germs". The worst part of the whole thing was that they waste nothing. Corn dogs left over at the end of the night? They scrape the dough off them and reuse them the next time. At one point a box of unused dogs fell out of the freezer (which they put outside the trailer) and the hotdog part tumbled to the ground. The worker picked them back up (after being on asphalt) and put them back in the freezer.

Cleaning up that night there was no cleaner and only around four paper towels. Massive amounts of grease everywhere and nothing to clean it up with.

This year they are doing it again and I'm sending him with a bunch of cleaner and paper towels!

My cousin worked at Metropolitan Stadium (now the Mall of the Northern Hemisphere) back in the 70’s as the assistant manager of concessions. The Twins owned the concessions under the leadership of MLB’s most notorious tight wads in history, Calvin Griffith. My cuz told me that sometimes the hot dogs came in and when they were unpacked, found to be completely covered in mold. The standing order was to throw them in the sink, wash em up good, cook and serve! Yum Yum!!!

That's gross. My husband's grandfather was a HUGE Twins fan for years and traveled wherever they went to watch the games. Not sure if he ate the hot dogs or not though!

Wait, I thought that was the topic. Food on a stick.

I'm reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, a book about what we eat and why. The first third of the book talks a lot about the industrialization of corn--why it happened, how it doesn't help farmers, why high-fructose corn syrup is in everything we eat. Pretty interesting.

Corn dogs is a nice example.

We're talking about grease, mold, man-eating housecats, wieners in the dirt and burying our wieners and you start in on the “book of the month"?

Your Mom is going to love reading where this thread has gone.

Oh, LORDY! I was unaware that your MOTHER was reading here! Yikes!

BC's weiners, and all the talk about DIRTY weiners being used over and over again.

I'd chalk it up to being Friday, but it's like this most everyday.

Hey - its a newbie from Minnesota popping in say hello! I got some great laughs reading the comments about food at the State Fair. One of my favorite places in the world. Good times, good times. Lots of deep fried foods, then some ice cream and a bucket of Sweet Martha's cookies and a twirl on a ride or two in the Midway - you're good to go! Sadly, it just ended this year - but there's always next year!

<---- princessmeggy refraining from running with this on the topic of adultery.

See how others can see what I can't when I'm typing. Astute observation for a Friday, PM. My brain's already shifted into neutral

You guys are too funny...


Watch this...




Me, my sister,(She's a born again Christian) and her husband watched this movie years ago... at the end of the movie, durring the outtakes my brother in law and me were laughing our butts off and my sister couldn't undertand why. (Which made us laugh even harder)

"Taking a skin boat to tuna town" made me laugh so hard I had soda coming out my nose...