Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most important, the tickets are still cheap. Typically, a family of four can get into the game for about $10. The owners are able to hold down prices because of the subsidies from the major leagues and the other revenues, ranging from hot-dog and baseball-cap sales to advertising proceeds. The outfield fences in many of the parks are studded with billboards that local and national advertisers rent for the season for as much...
...about the only other remnant of unabashedly American food left in the Square, Chicago Frank's specializes in Vienna Beef wieners, prepared the Chicago way, with mustard, ketchup, relish, onions, jalapenos and tomato wedges, in a soft, gushy, poppy seed-coated Coney roll. You can also buy a double dog, with two franks in a single roll. Variations include chili dogs, cheese dogs and corn dogs. Putting aside visions of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, we gave the establishment...
...first visit, we ordered the Cheese Dog, with all the fixings. The wiener itself was sumptuous; its exquisite aroma and flavor were not over-whelmed by the condiments. However, the "cheese" turned out to be a greasy, Cheez-Whiz like mass that had been plopped in globs onto the unfortunate frankfurter...
...next visit we tasted the Chili Dog. This dog was drowning in what passes in Chicago for chili, a concoction of ground beef and kidney beans more notable for its heat than its spice. We also tried the Basic Dog. Here, at last, was the dog we had sought, unadorned--well, except for mustard, ketchup, relish, etc. Ya gotta have those...
Still, ya gotta give credit to a joint that, in a part of the country where they think you're supposed to slice hot dog rolls through the top, slices them the right way, through the side. Eating at Chicago Frank's is like being transported to what poet Carl Sandwich called "the City of the Big Buns." Or something like that...