On my recent post featuring curled hot dogs and bow tie pasta, reader Frenchymms posted the following comment:
How exactly does one get hotdogs to curl?
I was intrigued. So Meat Galore and I experimented … if you cut the hot dog into quarters longways and then microwave it, it curls up. Now you know how to make curly hot dogs. You are very welcome.
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Real Simple this month had a section on how often one should launder one’s clothes. According to Real Simple, jeans only need to be washed after every 4th to 5th wearing. I never knew I was so much dirtier than the average person – because if I didn’t wash my pants any more often than that, they could probably stand on their own. Have you ever wondered if Martha Stewart is some kind of ghost writer for Real Simple?
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I read other people’s blogs for a few reasons: they make me laugh, they inspire me with craft ideas, or I like to spy on them from the comfort of my own home. Therefore, I find it very frustrating when a blog I read to satisfy my voyeuristic tendencies has a post to the effect of, “I’m going through a lot of stuff right now,” and then doesn’t say what all the stuff is. It should be against the law to say that if you aren’t going to elaborate!
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I’m going to put “how to curl hot dogs” in the tag for this post. I anxiously await to see if anyone ever Googles that.
I really hope someone, someday does a search for that, too funny!
I’d just like to find a pair of jeans that don’t stretch out of shape and I have to keep hiking up the rest of the day, can’t imagine how I’d keep them up after five days!
I know how to curl hot dogs. I know how to make bowls out of bologna.
I always wash my clothes after each wearing. If I don’t, I put something on for the second day and after sitting in a meeting for 45 minutes, I look down to discover yesterday’s lunch on the front of me.
I am so glad you found out how to curl them! It makes sense, not having the casing around them allows them to do whatever they want.
I never wash jeans until they have obvious dirt or smell. And sweatshirts I treat the same way. Nothing else, though, let you think I am just dirty.
As far as reading other people’s blog in secret and being let down… I too get let down when I read a blog that I happen to find HYSTERICAL, such as this very blog, and then it takes WEEKS for the blogger to post another blog!! I am left day after day wondering when the next installment of funny might appear. I laughed so hard the first time I read this blog, it was about the aspic and jello of the 60s that I was sure I would get a daily laugh. I do laugh at just abotu every post, but where are you all the time????
Oh, Frenchy! I’m sorry to be a disappointment. lol. I’m not a writer by nature so I have to save it up for a few days. Thank you!
Well, when you get it together, you are pretty funny! I’ve enjoyed a few of your posts but again, the aspic/jello commentary had me roaring. Somehow when I forwarded it to everyone I thought would find it funny, they didn’t find it so funny. My sister is the one who sent it to me first. She knew I’d think it was entertaining.
Only after four or 5 times? They’d walk out the door. Ew. Thanks for the curly hot dog tip. I feel like trying it right now, just to see.
I’m actually wearing jeans that I’ve worn four times already. My other ones are all dirty and I’m too lazy to wash them.
Wait a second… I come back to your blog finally and you haven’t posted since May 18th? What is up with that?
While I was off not blogging, I noticed a bunch of bloggers I read regularly were taking breaks for various reasons and that made me happy since it meant I had less catching up to do. (So, really, you don’t have to blog again until July. Of 2011.) I don’t mind if bloggers don’t go in detail about why they aren’t writing anything. But Facebookers who post vague statuses should be shot. I have to wait until they explain themselves (usually someone else will ask for more info because I sure as hell am not going to do that). It’s more than annoying.
By the way, there is a non-microwave way to make hot dogs curl. It’s a handy method when you want to make weenie octopuses. Too bad I’ve forgotten how to do it.
P.S. Hello to Karen your mom.
Soooooo suffering from withdrawal. I need a knee slapper from you!!!
I’ve seen the curly hot dog trick done a little differently. I saw something (probably in Family Fun) for making hot dogs into squid/soctopuses (they’ll only have 4 legs, so roll with me here). They cut the hot dogs legthwise like you said, but only halfway to 2/3 of the way up, leaving the top connected. Then when they’re boiled/microwaved the legs get curly and it looks like a squid/octopus (I’m not sure which they were meant to be lol).