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Happy Birthday Andy!!!

Everyone please wish Andy a very Happy Birthday today!! He is an occassional reader so I'm sure he would enjoy some birthday wishes on the blog.

We kicked off the birthday festivities last night with a trip to a new restaurant near our apartment, Willie's Dawgs. As you may have guessed by the name, it's a hot dog restaurant. I got a tofu dog with avacado, tomato, and cheddar. It was the best tofu dog I've ever had. While I will admit all of the other ones I've eaten have bordered on inedible, this one was actually really good. It was firm, which is a big improvement over the normal mushiness and heated well, which sounds ridiculous but it's hard to tell when they're heated through. Andy got the "Carlos" which was a normal beef hot dog with jalapenos, salsa, and cheddar. He said it was really good and had a good "snap" which is apparently the mark of a good hot dog. Even though I don't eat them anymore I think my favorite will always be the old fashioned pink weenies that we ate when I was a kid or the old Tiger Dogs they used to have at Tiger Stadium, before they sold out and made them "All Beef."

The most intriguing item on the menu at Willie's Dawgs, which I will try if we go back, was the carrot hot dog. They slightly boil a carrot so that it's a little soft, then marinate it in "hot dog spices"- whatever those are and then serve it on a bun like a normal hot dog. Very interesting.

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