{"id":1951,"date":"2010-02-22T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/2010-2-22-tremendously-tremendous-html\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:35:41","slug":"2010-2-22-tremendously-tremendous-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-22-tremendously-tremendous-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremendously Tremendous**"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/gf\/gf080809chicago-style_hot_do\" target=\"_blank\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/gf\/gf080809chicago-style_hot_do\/gf080809-Twinkie%20dog2.jpg\/image_preview\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rest in peace.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I heard on the radio this morning that a minor league baseball team has decided to upgrade their menu with the Twinkie Dog, which would be a hot dog served in a fried Twinkie, smothered in cheese. This turns out not to be true. Minorleaguedugout.com <a href=\"http:\/\/minorleaguedugout.com\/surfburger.php\" target=\"_blank\">has the story<\/a> on the new delicious treats served up this season by the Atlantic City Surf. And it just so happens that there&#8217;s no cheese on their Twinkie Dog because &#8220;that&#8217;s just gross.&#8221; Wipe that tear from your eye right now, gourmands. The Surf&#8217;s Twinkie Dog does wrap the hot dog in bacon, which I presume is not gross.<\/p>\n<p>The Twinkie Dog pictured above is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/gf\/gf080809chicago-style_hot_do\" target=\"_blank\">a 2008 episode of Good Food<\/a> on KCRW, and does feature cheese. The larger question in all of this is how much larger do you need to be? Personally, not much, and I have no desire whatsoever to try these things, the Atlantic City Surf&#8217;s Surf Burger, (Two quarter-pound hamburgers, three pieces of cheese, four slices of bacon, lettuce and tomatoes, between two funnel cakes.) or the now classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/around-town\/food-drink\/Still-Time-for-a-Donut-Chicken-Sandwich.html\" target=\"_blank\">Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich<\/a>, made popular at county fairs across this expanding land of ours.   I need a Tums just thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>** Hey, how about that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news-features\/news\/newsid=435772.html#recap\" target=\"_blank\">hockey game<\/a> yesterday? I don&#8217;t remember watching hockey on television ever being so engaging. Maybe it was because our team was winning, or there was a lot on the line, or maybe it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2010\/02\/us_hockey_takes_it_to_can.php\" target=\"_blank\">running commentary<\/a>. Wish they could all be like that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I heard on the radio this morning that a minor league baseball team has decided to upgrade their menu with the Twinkie Dog, which would be a hot dog served in a fried Twinkie, smothered in cheese. This turns out not to be true. Minorleaguedugout.com has the story on the new delicious treats served &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-22-tremendously-tremendous-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tremendously Tremendous**&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}