I'm boiling good hotdogs in shitty beer for my family, and they are baffled by the prospect.
Does anyone else do this?
Sophomore year our town gained an Albertson's. Got a flyer in the mail. Case of Hamm's Lite Ice. $5.99 a case. Fuck yeah. Get there. Each case has a $4 mail-in rebate coupon. $2/case beer. Open a can. Spit it out. Roommates have some. Spit it out. Try cooking chili in it. Renders the beef inedible. Sent in the coupons, though. Jesus. $2/case beer. Weeks pass. Out of mouthwash. Roommate 1 drank it all. More weeks pass. Roommate 2 gets drunk on Kahlua, opens a Hamm's and becomes outraged that we still had "trick beer" in the house. More weeks pass. Months pass. School ends. I move. Get a "notify sender of new address" with an $8 check from Hamm's. Realize we never got rid of the beer. Email Roommate 1, envisioning it lurking under the sink to surprise and terrify a new generation of sophomores. "It took some doing, but I finally drank it all," he says. "Especially once you hid your mouthwash." ________________________________________ I don't cook with beer and I don't buy Hamm's. I've never liked hot dogs but I've discovered that if I grill them to the point where the outer casing delaminates and turns blackish they aren't so terrible.
Yeah the existence of Hamm's defies logic. Thing is, we are at an Airbnb on Lake Huron, and someone left the beach house fridge full of them. It was either the Hamm's or $2/bottle double IPAs. I don't think hops would benefit the dogs either. The dogs were complimented all around.
all dags, no matter how shitty, benefit greatly from being burn'd until blackened and crunchy on the outside it's always been my position that hot dogs are just shitty sausages that are also appealing in some ways by their nature as shitty sausages so it ent worth the effort of trying to like them if you don't
Real bologna kinda is stick bologna too. Or log bologna at least. As a person descended from hot dog and sausage loving people I'm of the opinion that you gotta toss a bunch of extra shit on hot dogs to endure them. I probably have too many unimportant opinions about hot dogs. I blame Chicago.
At some point in the '90s Seattle street vendors switched over to grilled kielbasa on a grilled roll with grilled onions and cream cheese. I think that effectively ended hot dogs in the pacific northwest. Not that I was ever a hot dog person before but hot dogs are to sausages what Velveeta is to Beecher's.
So local breweries around my town do these things called "crowlers". It's a 32oz. can they fill and seal right there on the spot with your beer of choice. I believe this is pretty common in breweries. My favorite one here will let me bring in hunter sticks/brats and put them in the can before they fill it up with beer. So the final result is a sealed 32oz. can of beer marinated brats. 1: bring camping 2: Open can set by the fire 3: Wait until bubbling over and hot 4: Profit
Boiling bratwurst in beer is a thing here. I don't do it myself, but people totally do. It's probably worth admitting what we call bratwurst probably has, at best, weak ties to actual bratwurst.