A01=Jamie Loftus
american hotdogs
Author_Jamie Loftus
Category=WH
comedy
culinary
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fast food
funny
hot dog production
hot dogs history
nonfiction
travelogue
working conditions
Product details
- ISBN 9781250847768
- Weight: 285g
- Dimensions: 140 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Castle Point Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. 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.
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.
JAMIE LOFTUS (she/her) is a comedian, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and podcaster. She's worked as a staff writer on Teenage Euthanasia, Robot Chicken, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, and wrote and starred in her own web series for Comedy Central. She writes and hosts popular limited-run podcasts-"My Year In Mensa" (2019), "Lolita Podcast" (2020), "Aack Cast" (2021), and "Ghost Church" (2022)-and cohosts, with screenwriter Caitlin Durante, a podcast on the How Stuff Works Network called "the Bechdel Cast." She has her baby teeth bronzed and loaded into a slingshot.
www.jamieloftus.xyz
Twitter: @jamieloftusHELP
