A to Z Hotdog Tours

  Usual consumers – Alan and Terry A. who represent the A and Tom and Beth Z. who own the Z in the A to Z Hot Dog Tour. This was the long awaited 10 th annual hot dog tour.   Disclaimer – Due to COVID, we missed one year so technically, 2024 should have been the 10 th but hey, who cares? This year, we were joined by Frank the Dancing Hot dog.   Quite the comical weiner!   At times, he needed a mouth filter since he recorded what he heard in his immediate area. Again, Alan had our hot dog packets ready which included a full color itinerary, information on each of the proposed hot dog stops, a very hard hot dog trivia sheet (answers provided too), 12 ways to cook a hotdog, hot dog sunglasses, Slim Jim sticks, small roll of Tums, business card to hand out to curious onlookers complete with QR code for people to check out his blog and one very large gummy hot dog.   Dressed in our all important 10 th Annual Hotdog Tour shirts, we set out for Albany NY area....

  Per Alan’s usual attention to detail and generosity, we were handed our mystery bag with our intended itinerary for the day.   Yup, Beth guessed NH and she wins the prize.   We knew it was going to be a bit further than previous tours because we had a 9:00 am “be there” at the Aubins.    HD Swag Not only did we have a colored itinerary of the hot dog stands/places we would be visiting, but hand wipes, Slim Jim’s wrapped to look like hot dogs, gummy dogs and baseball caps with a hot dog on the front.   Women got pink and gentlemen, I use that term loosely, received blue caps.   We took flight first to Walpole, NH and Dog Daze Hot Dogs.   I use the word “flight” because NH was the first public flight of the Wright Brothers in 1908.   There would be no “flights” of beer today, though; all hotdogs! Nicole and Ryan - Dog Daze We were excitedly greeted by Nicole who owns the stand with her husband Ryan.   They bought the business from he...

  Ate or Eight?   Either way it’s great!   June 23, 2023, was the 8 th year of our annual (minus one COVID year) of the A to Z Hot Dog Tour.   The usual participants were Alan, Terry, Tom and Beth.   AKA – All In Alan, Terry Two Footer (she ate a 2 ft. long hotdog without cutting it) Tommy Jaws (no explanation needed) and Beth or Battling Betty.   She battles to keep up with the other three dog hounds! Wally's Weiner's Wearing our gray T-shirts with black lettering of A to Z Original Hot Dog Tour, (courtesy of the A team), we began the tour of dog eateries in Rhode Island.   Following the colorful itinerary provided by Alan complete with an emergency hot dog kit (gummy hotdogs) in case we didn’t find any to our liking (yea like that’s going to happen!), we proceeded to our first stop in Newport, RI.   A former elite dining French Restaurant, then a French Fry Palace, now known as Wally’s Weiners at 464 Thames St.,   Do you think there are ...