A hot dog stand in a Chicago suburb has come up with a meaty way to celebrate Christmas: reindeer redhots. Fred Markoff, the owner of Redhots and Fries in Glenview, is known for serving up exotic meats, including smoked alligator and pork sausage. Markoff opted not to serve the $8 reindeer wiener Chicago-style with mustard, onion, sweet pickle and sport peppers. The only resemblance the reindeer redhot bears to a Chicago dog is its poppy seed bun. Everything else, including the toppings of mustard and grilled onions and the meat itself, is pure Alaska.
Markoff gets the reindeer dogs from Alaska's Indian Valley Meats. Incidentally, the redhot isn't pure Rudolph. Reindeer meat is far too lean to produce a tasty dog, so the wiener also includes beef and pork. Despite the blend of meats, Markoff is considering putting a grape tomato on one end of the dog in what would amount to a most unusual display of Christmas spirit.










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12-13-2006 @ 1:08PM
MJ said...
this gives a new meaning to hot Dogs.............LOL
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12-13-2006 @ 1:32PM
Devi said...
Ack! That's awful...but kind of funny. I'm torn.
Can you imagine the look on a kid's face when they hear about a reindeer hotdog? "No, honey. It doesn't just look like Rudolph. It is Rudolph."
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12-14-2006 @ 4:15PM
amanda said...
I'm from Alaska so to me this is less than shocking! To be honest, all of the products I've had from Indian Valley Meats have been really tasty. We used to go there when I was a kid and I've even had my picture taken in one of those plywood things with the head cutouts in front of the store.
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12-14-2006 @ 5:01PM
Mike G said...
I had a reindeer dog when I was in Anchorage last year -- they seem to be more common than regular dogs at the street stands (for toursits, anyway).
Not bad - couldn't really distinguish the taste from a regular dog.
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12-17-2006 @ 2:17PM
Steven said...
EWWWW!!! I HATE hotdogs.....I wouldnt touch one unless it had a condom on it first, YUCK!! how could u eat one of these!
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12-17-2006 @ 2:21PM
Brandi said...
I think its kinda sick. Just ew. Can you imagine all the little kids being like, "mommy, I want a hotdog!" and then the vendor men people being like, "Its Rudolph! You know, the Reindeer you love so much! Mmm, & hes mighty tasty too!" Its just awful. At least pig guts wont make them cry. Just throw up a little...
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12-17-2006 @ 2:40PM
Jim said...
So what its a gimmick. Deer dogs have been made and eaten for years. In fact I just picked my blogna from the butcher last night. Blogna hotdogs and scraple. YUMMMIE raindeer and white tail cant be to far apart. elk and mosse are close too. Its all good to me
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12-17-2006 @ 3:17PM
Piggy Petrel said...
I had one of these rudolph dogs last week. It tasted like a po-po! Dont waste your money. Next they will be making them out of horse meat.The Sea Biscuit Dog!eww i mean really these people make me sick go to vegetarianism its way healthier. who wants to eat animal testicals eyeballs and butt holes. cause thats what hot dogs are really made of people!
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12-17-2006 @ 3:47PM
linda said...
kinda wobbley isn't he mother?
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12-17-2006 @ 3:55PM
Susan said...
that the grosest this I have ever heard.......anything to make a buck?
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12-17-2006 @ 4:01PM
michael said...
honestly it sounds realy good to me, how will we know if we dont like it if we dont try it. i dont think anybody would make a big deal out of it if it wasnt christmas and the certain christmas themed ingredient. do they ship to las vegas by the way?
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12-17-2006 @ 4:13PM
Jeanet said...
I don't see a problem making hot dogs from deer meat. However, it will be better to leave the name Rudolph out to avoid sensitivities. It will be enough to call it a deer hot dog the same way we call beef hot dogs. I seldomly eat hot dogs, but when I do it is only the beef kind. I think pork is not as tasty, and my suggestion will be to remove the pork from the deer hot dogs.
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12-17-2006 @ 4:13PM
Debera Fox said...
It just goes to show ignorant people will eat anything!! Its bad enough that people eat animals anyway..my God..just leave the poor animals alone!
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12-17-2006 @ 4:21PM
Ann said...
#13 you are the ignorant one. It's called the food chain it's a natural order of life for people to eat animals. However if you choose to be a herbivore go for it that's your choice to make, but don't say others are ignorant for eating meat.
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12-17-2006 @ 4:33PM
Kathleen said...
To number 13 and 14:
13, yes you're in the right mind for people to leave animals alone, but people need to eat meat;
number 14, yes you are right about the natural order, but since when in nature do animals use machines to brutally dismember an animal for corporation and money?
There is nothing natural about destroying an animal painfully while it is alive with the use of machines.
When animals kill for food, it is in one quick snap, not sadistically like when a worker is fed up of his job.
My two cents
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12-17-2006 @ 4:37PM
DRMANF said...
On Donder, On Dasher, On Oscar Meyer and Vixen!
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12-17-2006 @ 4:58PM
celvin louew said...
eww i don't wanna eat a hotdog made of reinder! oh my god! *faints*
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12-17-2006 @ 5:14PM
Charles Kenney said...
We "Down South",especially in Louisana have been eating that and more for at least 100 yrs.
"Try it you'll like it!", certainly we do very much.
Come on down and see us some time.
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12-17-2006 @ 5:23PM
Susan said...
#18....no thank you.....ewwwwwwwwww
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12-17-2006 @ 5:31PM
Joe Kulpa said...
So whats the big deal?? I make rudolph hot dogs, sausage, and bergers every year...It's are way of life and it's great!!!!
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