Word: hotdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ball park vendor has to create a style to survive the competition of a hundred other barkers, for he gets no salary. He works strictly on commission, usually about 16-per-cent of his sales. In most stadiums this minute cut yields about six cents per hotdog, and two and one-half cents per coke...
...decided to go to the lucrative upper-deck trade and challenge the successful students. I went to the upper deck commissary and demanded to sell hotdogs. I hoped to combine the style of Veteran's Stadium fixture Charlie "Hotdog" Frank and the hustle of the nouveau-riche dog-men. Nevertheless, lacking the seniority to sell the high-profit-margin dogs, I settled back to the 35-cent cokes and prayed for an instant heat wave...
...some, the affair might seem a bit ridiculous, but it was strong enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance...
There are two restaurants in the Square devoted to hotdog cravers. The Underdog (6 Bow St., and prone to flooding on rainy days) has kosher hotdogs, multi-sized, -shaped, and -topped, with assorted garnishes, as well as bagels that are pretty good dressed up with their lox and cream cheese. ZumZum (9 Brattle St.), part of a small East coast chain, serves knockwurst, bratwurst, and bauernwurst, with very tasty potato salad. Remember to wash it down with their dark beer--it spikes the taste...
However, the third quarter opened with Cronin, the hotdog goalie who was more effective on clears than in the nets, showboating upfield and scoring to make...