The Hot Dog King of New York - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This dog has everything: mustard, onions, a scrap with Giuliani, Vietnam Vets, and The Met. Everyone is coming for the Throne of the Hot Dog King of New York… Dan Rossi. And a camp for kids with dermatological issues reveals that some summer romances are more than skin deep.
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The Hot Dog King of New York
This dog has everything: mustard, onions, a scrap with Giuliani, Vietnam Vets, and The Met. Everyone is coming for the Throne of the Hot Dog King of New York… Dan Rossi.
This story contains strong language – sensitive listeners please be advised.
A huge thank you to Dan Rossi for sharing his story with Snap! There is so much that we were not able to share with you about Dan’s experience. To find out more check out his new memoir The New York Hot Dog King: From Rags to Riches to Less Than Rags. You can also follow Dan on social media.
Additional thanks to our friends at VICE, whose series MUNCHIES featured Dan back in 2019 and was a big inspiration for this story.
Listen to the King’s tribute song featured in this episode recorded by The Burner Band.
Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Clay Xavier, artwork by Teo Ducot.
Skin Deep
It’s days before the big dance at Camp Discovery — and there’s a problem. A few problems. But the kids at this camp are more used to problems than your average camper.
Thanks to everyone in this episode! Learn more about Camp Discovery at aad.org.
Produced by Sarah Harris with help from Anna Sussman. Sound design by Renzo Gorrio.
Snap Classic - Season 15 – Episode 52
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:07.0 | Okay, so I'm going to say something that is not particularly controversial in 99% of the country. |
| 0:16.0 | Something simple, something innocuous, and here it is. |
| 0:20.0 | See, from time to time, especially on a hot summer day, maybe even at a sporting event, |
| 0:26.3 | I like to enjoy a hot dog. |
| 0:30.2 | It's not something I eat on the daily. |
| 0:32.1 | It's an occasional treat that brings me great joy, and on my hot dog, |
| 0:36.0 | I don't really like mustard. |
| 0:39.9 | My two favorite toppings are ketchup and mayo. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, I'm with some onions. |
| 0:45.7 | And you might be thinking, Glenn, I don't see the problem. |
| 0:50.8 | I don't understand the controversy to which you allude. |
| 0:53.7 | Well, my friend, that means you are not either from New York or Chicago. |
| 1:01.1 | Territory where a grown man is not allowed to mind his own business and put his condiments of choice on his hot dog that he paid his own money for |
| 1:13.4 | without incurring the rap of both vendor and pass-a-by for the crime, |
| 1:19.6 | the audacity, the temerity of preparing your own lunch the way you'd like to eat it. |
| 1:24.5 | No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:30.8 | They will stop in their tracks, |
| 1:37.7 | postpone important meetings in their busy schedules, call in late for daycare pickup, just to let you know that you, you are a barbarian of the highest order. I say to them, be gone. You don't scare me |
| 1:51.1 | anymore. I won't be intimidated because I know something. I know something about the struggle. |
| 1:59.5 | I know something about the pain. I know something about the pain. |
| 2:02.2 | You think this tube of meat placed beside a savory role happens by accident so you can act all high and mighty? |
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