A Split Pea Dilemma And The Chicago-Style Hot Dog

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A listener noticed that diner after diner seemed to serve split pea soup every Wednesday. So is he really onto something? Reporter Linda Lutton investigates this legume mystery. Plus, we break down the origins of the Chicago-style hot dog.

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0:00.0	Chicagoans take great pride in the things that make our city unique.
0:04.1	The architecture, the music, the theater scene, and of course, our food.
0:09.6	Deep dish pizza.
0:10.3	The Italian beef sandwich.
0:11.7	Euros.
0:12.2	Malort.
0:12.5	The original rainbow cone.
0:14.0	The pizza puff.
0:14.9	The Polish sausage.
0:17.5	I'm Curia City intern, Sophia Lowe.
0:20.3	And this week on the podcast, we're answering a couple of your food-related questions.
0:25.4	Now, the first one is about...
0:26.7	Split-piece soup.
0:27.8	But it's not about the soup itself.
0:30.6	It's about why local restaurants seem to roll out a particular soup on a particular day of the week.
0:36.0	That's what they come for on Wednesdays.
0:38.3	We've put ace reporter Linda Lutton on the case.
0:41.3	She gets to the bottom of this important mystery.
0:44.3	Then we revisit the history of a true treasure of our cuisine scene, the Chicago-style hot dog.
0:51.3	It's a symphony of textures and flavors unmatched anywhere.
0:55.0	If you put ketchup on it, it will kill everything.
0:57.8	It's all coming up after the break.
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