Latest tabloid headline: You’re not poor if you don’t like hot dogs
Posted on June 15, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized
Someone at work made a statement to me the other day that has to be one of the most profoundly out-there statements I’ve ever heard. He said that I must not really know what being poor is because I don’t like hot dogs. Let’s think about this for a minute:
- Many people turn their backs on the markers of a part of their lives they didn’t particularily enjoy, such as a time when they didn’t have very much money. They associate those things, whether it be apartment living, riding public transportation, or using someone else’s used stuff, with the pain of being poor and therefore, don’t want anything to do with them.
- Perhaps I just never liked hot dogs. They don’t taste all that great but they are tolerable. For them to be really good, in my opinion, they have to be made on the grill and/or the kind with the cheese inside. I do very much like Sheetz hot dogs, but that’s an exception…and I’ll get a dog if I’m at a baseball game…they go down reallly well with an overpriced draft beer.
- Since I began educating myself regarding nutrition, I have discovered that hot dogs are incredibly unhealthy and just don’t fit into my dietary goals. Is that so bad? It’s the same reason I don’t eat Oreos or pork rinds.
There a link out there (shared by Will) which talks about what it really means to be poor…I really appreciate this list being out there because I can really identify with at least some of the items on it. Anyway, no where on this list does it mention that hot dogs are the prefered cuisine of the economically disadvantaged.
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So well written I could hear Andy Rooney’s voice in my head as I read it.
sheetz hot dogs are good but i remember as a little girl my dad would send me to the texas weiner joint for two hot dogs with the works on them they were really good i would carry them back in a little brown bag to him the good old days