h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Chicago-Style Hot Dogs - A787368
Author: Friar, the BigDawg - U158503

This seems to be complete. I love Chicago-style dogs, and as a Chicagoan I can vouch for his accuracy. Just a bit of punctuation help and headers, and it'll be ready for Edited.

Hi Qworg

This is great.

I'll let Friar know about this.

Bels

Sorry to interupt, but I noticed Researcher 206818 is subscribed to this forum, and if u wrote an introduction to you're ps, an ACE will soon come along and great u!

Rimmer - please explain it to me like I'm a five year-old.

Bels. Can you cntact Friar? - he gave me my first pat on the back for my first H2G2 effort. Then he went AWOL.

Thanks, both.

Dr Trout

Yes, I'll contact Friar. He's a great guy, and there's lots of good stuff going on in his life right now, so I just don't know how much time he'll have for hot dogs in the next month or two.

Rimmer, since that Researcher hasn't posted to this thread, perhaps you could see if they've posted elsewhere and follow it up there, rather than on any and all new PR threads they might be subscribed to? Some people like to subscribe to PR and lurk awhile.

'lo all.

Nice to see that somebody likes Hot Dogs.
I guess my Chicago site (which is, um, on hiatus for now) has visitors.

I'll take a quick look at my Hot Dog article this week, but as Bels said, I'm a pretty busy guy right now:
my wife's due date for our first baby was YESTERDAY!, no baby yet tho';
I'm studying for the second step of my medical licensing exam, which is hard;
we're building a huge addition onto our house;
I'm frantically working on likfe after medical school;

- - -thank god I'm not takin a class right now!)

Anyway, thanks for the notice and I'll try and get some time for this in the near future. Also, take a look at the ohter site on the Chicago page!

Friar

ps. thanks for all the nice comments, i get a big warm fuzzy over here

He hasn't spoken to anyone, he's only subscribed to numerous peer review forums, this was the latest one.
Sorry if it bugged you.

Mrs Gosho, who is herself quite familiar with Chicago hot dogs and the establishments they're sold in, says that this is a very good entry

Rimmer, it's no problem to me at all - I just thought you might have more luck if you wait till they post somewhere and then pounce. They'll obviously be aware that their message centre is inactive, no?

OK, I did a little house-keeping on then entry and added a few paras at the end.

Let me know. . .

Friar, carefully avoiding studying, now with DSL

We had a baby girl - Alyson Patricia - 8lb7oz.

I'm home now, doing daddy stuff and still faithfully avoiding studying.

I'm going to be able to work on this piece a little bit if anyone cares to give me some feedback, i'd like to know what I should do next (the first person to tell me to change a diaper will get a used diaper across the brow!).

Friar

Perhpas I should change the title, as I write more about hot dog stands than the food itself. I woul dhate to confuse folks by implying that this is a recipe article. . .

Well done. On the wain, I mean.

Yes, congratulations!

Personally, I'd like to see the entry focus on the unique style of hot dog rather than get so into the inner workings of a hot dog stand.

But that's just me. I enjoyed it the way it was - and working at a similar stand summers during college, I could smell the grease.

Good stuff in here, I'd just like to see the focus tightened a bit.



- Jimi X

I hear you Jimi, but I felt that writing only about the Chicago Style Hot Dog would be just too brief. It's impossible to find any real history about the dogs. . .etc.

Including the ubiquitous Chicago Hot Dog Stand (bit of a pun there I suppose) gives another, albeit totally seperate, feature.

The Stands are at least as interesting as the fare that they pleasure us with and IMO warranted inclusion. How to include them and maintain some order in the article is the real question.

The article is OK as is, butI feel it lacks direction.

Any specific ideas?

Friar, sire of Alyson

ps. Jimi - mmm. . .grease fire. . .mmm

And Friar begat Alyson...
Congratulations! I bet she's a real cutie.

I think you're right talking about the stands rather than just the dogs. We non-Chicagoans get much more of a sense of the whole atmosphere when you talk about who works there, what they do, who eats there, etc. That's great - expand that if you like.

Regarding your query about structure, I thought maybe you should move the bit about the soft serve. It doesn't seem relevant to the hot dogs placed where it is, and since it's not even a necessary feature it might be best to put it much lower down.

There's a basic paradox with entries like this, where you are describing something specifically, probably uniquely, American for a site which is supposed to be in UK English. We hardly ever use the word 'station' except in connection with transport - the railway station, the bus station (terminus, not just a stop), the filling station for cars. In a shop or restaurant they would probably call these things 'point' or 'area'. I like your use of 'station' - it makes the whole thing more American. But it might be a bit confusing - I don't know.

Anyway, it's great stuff. A few typos here and there, nothing too drastic.

Bels

hi all,

congrats on your litlun, Friar!

I bet you're loving all that 'daddy stuff' right now, . Go fer yer life

about the dogs - i love the entry. I saw the title and thought 'well, that must be nice and short; ideal for a Sunday lunchtime state of mind... I was only half wrong,

keep stations, for my money. As Bels said (yes, Bels, rather confusingly, ) it gives the US feel to the whole affair. indeed, station sounds kinda Statien!

I also agree that the entry has ended up more about the stands than the dogs themselves... no bad thing, but not reflected in the title...

I think you could add a section where an imaginary customer goes through the process of ordering, choosing fillings and sauces, paying and of course taking that all important first bite

anyway, a great read, good content and destined for the EG. Changes or not.

congrats again on your gal. That's the first birth i've ever 'witnessed' in PR,

cya
spiff

Thanks for the input all.

It's late here, so I'm going to bed (unless alyson has other ideas, which I fear will be the case). But in the morning I will move the bit about soft serve (possibly minimizing the entire thing into a footnote) and perhaps jigger with the title.

I was holding this article because I'm compiling a group of articles about Chicago and I was going to EG them en masse. But I have only about 25% of what I had hoped to compile.

So, I'm making hay wihle the sun shines (is that a daddy expression or what!?!?).

Friar

BTW Missus Friar thanks all for the well-wishes and calls me a lout for not doing so earlier.

OK so I have done zero work this week on this article, and with my test on Thursday, it will probably be next weekend before I make any significant changes.

So any editorial advice will be given its proper due

Friar

test is completed.

baby is fed

parents going to bed

will write this weekend

I PROMISE!

Friar