National Corndog Day

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Mar 17th 2006 @ 4:10PM

To be truthful, I have no idea what a corn dog is, and quite frankly I may be better off in ignorance. But apparently it involves plenty of beer (which is fine) and something called tater tots. To me, tots are children so anything that involves them, microwave ovens, ("sure you can squeese another one in they are only little!"), yellow mustard and ketchup might not turn out to be too bad.

National Corn Dog Day is coming up on the 18th of this month. It might just be too much to cope with if this quote from the Official Corndog Day website is any indication - "it as the happiest day of basketball and meats on sticks that you'll ever have. National Corndog Day coincides with the Saturday of the final 32 teams in NCAA basketball tournament . This Saturday is the only day all year that one can watch a quadruple-header of college basketball games (that’s a good 7-8 hours of college hoops) from start to finish without having to change the channel. NCD officially starts with the tip-off of the first game – 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern. To help pass the time, have fun with our friends, and to celebrate being blessed with such a thing as a college basketball tournament, we eat Corndogs.! Lots of Corndogs..."

No please... I'll pass. But if you want to join in there are a list of states with events listed; parties I assume in aid of this national celebration (that frankly can stay in the US!).

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Tags: america, basketball, beer, corndog, corndog day, CorndogDay, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, oddities

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3-17-2006 @4:29PM sarah said... oh, andrew. *shakes head* andrew, andrew andrew...you have missed out. corn dogs are a wonder amongst wonders. a hot dog impaled length-wide on a stick, dipped in cornbread-like batter, then deep fried.

sure, it's not exactly healthy, so can't eat too many but damn, they are delicious. dipped in fiery hot mustard? heaven, andrew. heaven.
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3-17-2006 @4:51PM Andrew said... what's the meat content of the hot dog? is the mustard organic? is the batter fried in olive oil?

they still sound bloody horrid... ;-)
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3-17-2006 @4:56PM peggy said... omg.... you are poor and deprived. i have a box of them (chicken) in my freezer at any given time. what wonder there is in biting into a fresh and juicy corn dog. and with tater tots ( with cheese) and a cherry limeade.....ooooh i can almost hear the angels singing.... halleluiah!!!!!!!!!
there are also corn dog nuggets (we call them babies) that are jsut right to pop during the big game (as in basket of fries and corn dog babies)

in the south this rapturous meal can be had at your local sonic driove-in, but here in the northwest where we are deprived of the best in american folk cusine, it can be duplicated at your local market.

try it brother and you will be converted. you may even feel like trying the deep fried twinkie in a stick for dessert!

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3-17-2006 @7:09PM rob said... what?! you write a food blog & don't know what a corndog is... wow.
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3-17-2006 @7:19PM Andrew said... remembering I am English and corn dogs are a uniquely American ummm... 'delicacy' I think I am excused.
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3-17-2006 @7:40PM R said... They ARE a delicacy & you ARE better off knowing about what they are.

Like most delicacies, there are a lot of bad versions out there. But there are also good ones. Try Alton Brown's recipe:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/04/earlyshow/living/recipes/main524444.shtml
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