Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs - Jamie Loftus

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Biography Memoir Cooking Food Food And Drink History Humor Memoir Nonfiction Travel

Written by Jamie Loftus
Read by Jamie Loftus
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, they’re low culture, they’re sports food, they’re kids’ food, they’re hangover food, and they’re deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America’s Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can’t avoid the great American hot dog.

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It’s a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest.

So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven.

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Release date: 05-23-23