WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS...

...you're talking about reindeer hot dogs.

(Thanks to DavCat14)

Comments

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

$8 for a hot dog?

[estrogen centrale]

Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la!

[Wyo Cowboy]

Poor Rudolph. having to donate his... nevermind.

maybe I misunderstood the article.

[Michelle Miyoshi]

They just couldn't think of a different headline, could they?

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Reindeer - the other, other white meat.

[estrogen centrale]

Olo, nice simul. Was it good for you?

[ubetcha]

Rudolf the red hot reindeer?

[wickedwitch]

think i'll stick with my soy dogs. hormones and all.

[MOTW]

Next step: dip it in cornbread batter so you can have a reindeer corndog - deep-fat fried, of course.

Rudolph, the corndog reindeer
Had a very greasy nose

(I'm rather busy today. Mud or insom' - one of y'all mind catching the muse and finishing this up for me, please? Thanks.)

[kibby *firing aimlessly* F5™]

... they tax hot dogs!? Isn't that against the Constitution or something!?

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

and is available starting Friday through the holiday season

So the 'holiday' season coincides with reindeer season? I'm gonna need more ammo.

Come 'ere, Blixen!

[estrogen centrale]

I heard about this on the radio coming in today. Apparently, reindeer is a rather dry meat; so, they use beef & pork filler in them... the hot dogs, that is.

And, if you get one that is blinking, holy Rudolph!!!

[Wyo Cowboy]

The Donner party, redefined.

[Clean Hands]

One of the major pizza chains up in Anchorage used to (and probably still does) serve reindeer-sausage pizzas. So, of course, one of the ever-tasteful morning radio shows came up with the idea of doing a "wheel of reindeer" promotion.

"Okay, let's spin the wheel, and see who's going to be on your pizza tonight!!!"

[kibby *firing aimlessly* F5™]

... wasn't there originally 10 reindeer on Santa's Sleigh?

[sthnbelle]

OT - I notice that so far, the goat is standing.

I also notice that they have added an "in English" link to the site that wasn't there befoer, by which I found this jewel in their lovely town:

Welcome to Kybacka Gård Moose Park! Here you can virtually come face to face with the king of the forest- the moose- in its very own environment. Our expert guides will take you out into a protected area and you have the possibility of finding a moose and clapping it.

Burning goats and clapping meese - I need to go to Sweden!

[wickedwitch]

nice one wyo!

[Hammond Rye]

On Dasher, Onions
On Dancer, Relish
On Prancer, Mustard
On Vixen, Ketchup and Onions
On Comet, Relish and Mustard
On Cupid, Relish and Onions
On Donder, (Donner), Mustard and Onions
On Blitzen, the works

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Watch out if you go S-belle. A moose once bit my sister.

[Trouble]

If this catches on, it'll spark an international reindeer shortage. Will Santa then have to resort to an SUV pulling his sleigh?

Excellent, Wyo. ROFLMAO at that one.

[Baron VonKlyff]

I doubt Rudolph will be on the menu when everyone knows that it's the Donner party!

[Baron VonKlyff]

Dang it... got upstaged while I was posting.

[sthnbelle]

A morning snork award to you , Chris. (dropped the Scrooge act, huh?)

No realli - moose bites can be quite nasti!

[Hammond Rye]

We apologise for the fault in the blog. Those responsible have
been sacked

[Wyo Cowboy]

*bars blog doors against Llamas*

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

ec....just great. :-)

[From another world]

I always forget the names of all the rain deer. This helps me remember. The most famous rain deer of all - Hormel.

[Beppie]

AT least they aren't soy dogs. Men everywhere are safe.

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

If there does end up being a reindeer shortage, perhaps Santa could use 40 Specially Trained Ecuadorian Mountain Llamas.

(With under 2 weeks to go, and my family (the ones I live with) having left me alone about the impending holiday I find I am much less indisposed towards it this year. This does not mean that I did not take several pictures of Santa to the range last weekend and shoot Santa in effigy.)

[kibby *firing aimlessly* F5™]

Donner is also German for a pita bread stuffed with grilled lamb, salad and yogurt.

... sorry, can't remember the English word for it.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Kibby, the English word is "Sammich"

[Baron VonKlyff]

Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA

Gøtta løve that møvie, sthnbëlle... øne øf the funniest øf all time.

[Hammond Rye]

The directors of the firm hired to continue the blog after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been
sacked.

[Clean Hands]

That was awesome, Hammie!

Thanks for the goat update, sthnbelle! I can only imagine that they saw all of the Stateside traffic we're generating here on the blog, and decided that they should avoid any misunderstandings about the usage of flamskyddsmedlet.

[Wyo Cowboy]

*waves to Siouxie, bannished by the bot*

I'm thinkin' the llamas really need to stay home. If they dare to come out, I'll have to unleash a ferocious rabbit and fart in their general direction.

[Brainy Jello]

Gyroscope?

[crossgirl]

i was planning to leave out cookies and carrots on christmas eve. guess i'll change that to cookies and condiments.

[Clean Hands]

*snork* @ cg. Good one.

[Lairbo]

Whatever you do, avoid Taco Bell's seasonal special "Blitzen Burrito Blast", for so many reasons...

[heather leigh]

Living in Chicago, I've seen worse...

Did you know that it's considered blasphemous to put ketchup on hotdogs here?

Anywho...someone should warn the Easter Bunny that he could be next!

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Hasenfeffer!! Yum!

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Would the Easter Bunny require use of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

[From another world]

My hotdog has a first name... Ooops, I guess it really does.

[mudstuffin]

reindeer sausages
express holiday spirit
st. nick looks nervous

american way
deep fried and served with ketchup
like something? eat it

are chestnuts roasting?
that doesn't smell like chestnuts...
what? oh, that's just gross

[AFKAT]

So that's what happened to Olive...

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

AFKAT, no, please don't go there!

[Beppie]

You can't put ketchup on hotdogs in Chicago? Then what are you supposed to do with them? You sure can't eat them without ketchup. And mayonaise. Lots and lots of mayonaise!

[Mikey123]

Clean Hands- That looks like the Trogan Goat!

Ya kow, the one that the Brad Pitt tried to give to the Paris Hilton?

[Baron VonKlyff]

Mayo on Hotdogs?!?!?! Ewwwwwww.... Everyone knows that mayo is for French fries! Mustard is for hotdogs. And Ketchup is for using as fake blood.

[Heinrich the Lab Rat]

Olo -- $8 for a hot dog in the tonier northern suburbs of Chicago is not all that unusual.

The vendor supplying the dogs has a site that offers cans of chunked reindeer in gravy, reindeer jerky, and a variety of reindeer sausage. I'm guessing that eating reindeer sausage on Christmas morning is one way to get on the "naughty" list -- or to get some extra time in purgatory when you announce to your six-year-old what he has eaten.

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

Years ago I used to work in Glenview, and there were hot dog stands up Milwaukee Ave. They were probably $1.25 then, say 1986.

Chicago dogs already have tomatoes, so ketchup (not catsup) is redundant. (This isn't a chicawgo site, but that's the typical hot dog.)

[D.Esker]

Belgian Fries? Belgian Fries?? What the h*!! are Belgian Fries?!

[Clean Hands]

Pommes frites, if you want to be technical. The Belch invented "french" fries, so it's not too much of a stretch to call 'em what they really are.

[Heinrich the Rat]

Olo --
When the Naval Air Station closed, the whole town decided to go Lake Forest. Wait until they get the property tax bills they thought would go down with more land on the rolls. Putting up McMansions raises the neighboring valuation in Cook County faster than a politician can pocket a bribe.

Give me a Gold Coast Dog with everything but the kitchen sink for $3 or so downtown -- marked up to $5 in the less tony burbs.

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

H the R...that's why I moved around the lake to Michigan. And I can still get Vienna dogs.