"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."
~ Humphrey Bogart.
~ Humphrey Bogart.
What could be more American on a cool "Autumnal" eve than hot dogs, smores and an ice cold bud lime?
We were done filming and planning on a bonfire to end the eve. Lara and Emily volunteered to do the Walmart run and tagged with a list, off they went. I should have known that sending my chocoholic daughter with her British counterpart would mean nothing but trouble for my waistline but hey.....what the heck!
An hour later back they came with bags in tote-6 bags to be exact! Let's see-bag #1- Cadbury Milk Chocolate, Cadbury Carmello and Hershey's king size, the same for bags 2 and 3. The rest of the bags contained assorted sizes and shapes of marshmallows and graham crackers and, of course hot dogs!
In our culture we tend to take so much for granted. Hotdogs and S'mores are two of the cultural yummies that simply don't cross "the pond". As we were preparing for our roast, Rupert asked, "exactly what is a hotdog?" LJ's response, "tubed bologna". To that Sam asked, "what is bologna?" And, yes, Bret's response was "a flat hotdog". Around and around we went not wanted to face the inevitable question of content. To do so would have meant grossing out our counterparts from the other side of "the pond" and, an end to weenie roasts as we know them. I chimed in after about three go-arounds with, "why don't you just try one and see."
The fire was ready and our eve began with skewers aflame with blackened hot dogs galore! Everyone enjoyed their dogs!!! I introduced some bologna to the mix of edible additives but there were no British takers! The S'mores were a hit as well though most of the Cadbury disappeared long before S'more time!
It had been a really long day and tomorrow was to be yet another long one filled with cameras, crew and takes.
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