the latest hotdog review comes from the "food mart" of south first street.
although it has a competently stocked condiment rack, the food mart does not literally have any hotdogs. instead it has an absent-mindedly stashed cardboard box at the bottom of a freezer case with the magic-marker sign: "corndogs: 2 for $1.00".
a minute in the microwave turns the corndogs from rock-hard frozen to kinda warm.
the ample dining facilities outside form a suitably corn-dog atmosphere.
these were not the best corndogs i’ve ever had. the best corndogs i’ve ever had were made fresh at a mall in roswell, NM.
the meat was blandly porkish, a salty fluff of flesh. the cornmeal covering managed a slightly crunchy inconsequentiality. a dollop of mayonaise improved it immeasurably.
the purist in me is ambivalent about corndogs. sure, it’s a meat-tube on a stick, you have to admire the elegance of the arrangment. but it has no culture and class. the simplicity of a corndog is both it’s advantage and it’s ultimate limitation.
South First Food Mart Corndog: C Minus
