The Hot Dog King of New York
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 50 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.
Season 14 - Episode 49
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios. |
| 0:10.0 | You heard him on Snap. |
| 0:11.0 | You heard him on Snap, on Spoot, on The Moth. Now from PRX and The Moth, |
| 0:18.0 | experience a podcast, What's Ray saying? |
| 0:22.0 | My Snap favorite Dr Ray Christian in each episode of what's Ray saying, |
| 0:27.4 | you'll enter a world of southern-baked personal narrative interwoven with black American history told through the lens of |
| 0:34.8 | Ray Christian's remarkable life as a combat veteran, academic, appellation, and award-winning |
| 0:41.2 | storyteller, with a voice that feels like an old bottle of your favorite |
| 0:45.8 | scot, Ray makes you comfortable enough to listen to things that aren't always easy to hear. |
| 0:52.4 | Find a brand new season of what Ray saying starting November 8th. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay so I'm going to say something that is not particularly controversial in 99% of the country. |
| 1:09.0 | Something simple, something innocuous, and here it is. |
| 1:12.0 | See, from time to time... like a hot dog. Not something I eat on the daily. |
| 1:24.0 | It's an occasional treat that brings me great joy and on my hot dog. |
| 1:28.0 | I don't really like mustard. |
| 1:31.0 | My two favorite toppings are ketchup and mayo. |
| 1:35.4 | Well, some onions. And you might be thinking, Glenn, but I don't see the problem. |
| 1:42.4 | I don't see the problem I don't understand the controversy to which you allude well my friend |
| 1:48.1 | That means you are not either from New York or Chicago |
| 1:53.0 | territory either from New York or Chicago. 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 |
| 2:06.2 | without incurring the rap of both vendor and passer by for the crime. |
| 2:11.7 | The audacity, the temerity of preparing your own lunch |
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