Celebrate National Hot Dog Day with Short Leash Hotdogs!
Brad Moore from Short Leash Hotdogs is here to help us celebrate National Hot Dog Day on July 19th. He is also filling us in on their special event, The Wurst Festival Ever! Learn more at https://https://shortleashhotdogs.com/
Transcript
00:00 Hot dog. It's National Hot Dog Day and who best can we celebrate with than a short leash
00:07 hot dogs and their worst hot dog fest. But it's not what we're thinking of a worst hot
00:13 dog. We're talking delicious hot dogs. Of course. But before we go any further, Brad,
00:17 getting great names here. Let's talk a little about short leash hot dogs because I met you
00:22 guys when you're down in the Roosevelt District, the first little place to open. Yeah. And
00:26 you guys had a little twist on hot dogs. It was not your traditional coming there, ketchup,
00:31 mustard, relish, Chicago, whatever kind of hot dog. You took it to a whole new level.
00:35 We'll do that, but we don't like it. We don't like it. We've always said we'd like to do
00:39 a unique twist on a classic favorite. So we do. All of our hot dogs are served on non
00:42 holds up all the size of the dog. And we get a little crazy with some of the topping combinations.
00:47 That's why this worst hot dog competition is so important to your menu. Also to hot
00:54 dog lovers everywhere. Yes. And that's because you've actually opened it up to the public
00:59 to do what? So for the last three weeks, we've had a ongoing hot dog topping contest. We've
01:04 gotten over 200 entries. So on Saturday, we've picked four. We're going to serve those four
01:09 along with some beer pairings from Renthouse Brewery. It's going to be a lot of fun. I
01:14 love it. OK, we got a couple here that are these are these ones of yours or these? These
01:18 are no, these are mainstays on our menu, but they were kind of classic summertime. Perfect
01:23 for this brutal heat that we're going through. OK, so what do we have down here? So this
01:27 is kind of classic Americana baseball season. So it's peanut butter, cracker jack, smoked
01:31 Gouda bacon. Sounds weird, but I always say if you like Thai food, kind of marries together
01:35 like a type. Oh, my gosh. And what kind of hot dogs is there? That's a spicy link. Oh,
01:40 spicy. Oh, you want to show it off? Sorry. No, no, you're OK. I don't want to slide anywhere.
01:46 But there we go. Like everyone you mentioned hot dogs around here. People just go berserk.
01:49 They don't understand. OK, what's our next one? This one's kind of a Hawaiian style.
01:53 So it's a mango chutney. We make it in-house. It's mango, papaya, a little bit of onion,
01:57 pepper, a little drizzle of mayonnaise just for a little creamy texture. Sweet and spicy
02:01 combination. All right. And then down here and then down there is our sunny. It is a
02:05 regular grilled peaches because those are in season right now. Prosciutto, goat cheese,
02:11 little honey drizzled on top. Yeah, this is awesome. OK, thank you. You also have hot
02:15 dogs. I mean, hot dogs. You also have hamburgers there. No hamburgers. Donuts. Donuts. Yeah,
02:19 I'm sorry. I got thrown off the hot dogs because I'm like, I want one so bad right now. So
02:24 this smells good. Donuts. Yeah. Donuts. Yeah. We do scratch made donuts in the morning and
02:28 we do again kind of just with the unique twist. We have a lot of fun flavors with the whiskey
02:34 infused. We have orange pistachio, a whole bunch of fun stuff. I love it. OK, Brad, let's
02:39 talk about, of course, the worst festival and how this all works. So do people have
02:43 to they come in. Right. That's it. They show up. That's it. Yeah. We've taken care of all
02:48 the other stuff. So how many hot dogs will all be out there? No, no, no. Just the four
02:52 that we selected, you know, every now and then you get some kind of boring hot dog submission.
02:56 So we really will. Again, we're looking for the fun stuff. So what was the most boring
02:59 hot dogs? Go ahead. Every now and then you get just ketchup, mustard, relish. It's like
03:03 that. You know, that's someone put it. Someone actually put that in. You would be amazed.
03:07 You would be amazed. Ketchup, mustard, relish. Yes. So nothing else in there. No pickles.
03:11 We have all that stuff. Onions or anything like that. We don't like to do it, but we
03:14 will. All right. What's the most craziest you've gotten so far? So I will. A couple
03:18 that are I'm really are going to be fun this weekend. We were doing like a French onion
03:22 soup dog. It's like a French baguette and chopped up dog. French onion soup. OK. We're
03:26 also doing another one. It's a croque madame. So it's got wrapped in ham, fried and all
03:32 bechamel sauce. Also, to get in. Is it too late to get in? Yeah. So I was, you know,
03:37 I was thinking I could see right now I could see my hot dog with some crumble cookies on
03:42 it. OK, then some popcorn, a little collab with a club like everybody and then throw
03:47 a little spicy on. I like this idea. You like that. And I would use the hot dog. We could
03:51 squeeze in a last minute submission. Can I do that? Yeah. Yeah. Infuse the hot dog with
03:55 a little whiskey whiskey in the wild. A little strawberry and like a little injector on the
03:59 side and they can just do it themselves. When that one look at this. I like some mind meld
04:03 also to you have all the fun swag, all kinds of stuff that goes on there. The one thing
04:07 I love that you do is really big and that's not until next year in the spring. And that's
04:11 your Pinewood Derby. Yeah. So awesome. Thank you. Thank you. We've been doing that for
04:16 nine years now. Yeah. I believe it. And it's getting bigger and bigger. So much fun. What
04:20 are we going to get to the real derby cars for this thing? Arizona's too flat. We could
04:25 build we could build. We'll take it to Snowball or someplace like that. All right. We know
04:29 you guys are not open today. What days are you open? We are only open Friday, Saturday,
04:33 Sunday. So Friday and Saturday, nine in the morning till eight at night and then Sunday
04:36 nine to two. So that's why we think National Hot Dog Day deserves a Saturday. Every day
04:41 is National Hot Dog Day. I'm telling you right now. And if you want to, you can actually
04:45 just grab a hot dog and go sit in your car. That's what you don't sit in the car. Put
04:49 the hot dog in the car. Walk away for five minutes. Five minutes. Come back and you got
04:52 a nice five minutes. Max. There it is. Brad, tell me where they can find more. We are on
04:57 Seventh Avenue just north of Indian School, right on the Melrose Curve, right in the Melrose
05:01 District. There you go. And the website is? Shortleashhotdogs.com. Super simple.
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