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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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12-20-2006 @6:13PM Lindsay said... Ok everyone just give the people a break. My God there are people there that eat venison. And that is just what the reindeer hotdog is venison. I mean if people had called it a venison dog then there wouldn't even be this conversation
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12-20-2006 @6:19PM Disgusted from Glenview! said... We just moved out of Glenview and boy are we glad! This is truly disgusting and so is this restaurant (if you can even call it that)!!! They should be ashamed and this just makes us glad we don't live there anymore!!!
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12-20-2006 @6:34PM Bernie said... What do you say when the child asks what part of the reindeer You got??????
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12-20-2006 @6:55PM Phil said... " 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. "
What is "Pure Alaska" about mustard and grilled onions?
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12-20-2006 @9:57PM Joe Frana said... You will not see me eat a packing house hot dog. However, I know of several people in this area that make them, as well as other sausage, out of deer mixed with some combination of beef and pork. They use the MEAT, not the junk that a packing house uses. Deer meat is very lean, better for a person than something with a lot of fat in it. The hunters keep the deer polulation down, safer to drive, and the product is very very good!!
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12-20-2006 @7:07PM Charles Stewart said... I had a reindeer hot dog a few years ago during a visit to Chicken AK. It was terrible. Too spicy & too tough. I ate less than half of it. Chicken AK was fun.
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12-20-2006 @7:18PM Gerald Spencer said... If you do not eat, you die. If you do not get an amount of required daily protein (for your physical exertion), vegetarians generally will not, you are subject to disastrous physical consequences. All things in moderation.
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12-20-2006 @7:12PM Shawn said... Personaly I do not see what the big deal is, I mean did not God himself put the animals on this earth for us to consume and to use everypart of them that we could for whatever purpose we found fit.My grandfather was German and he used to eat deer, elk, mountain goat and whatever else they could shoot on four legs. I say that is what they were put on this Earth for to provide us with sustanance.
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12-20-2006 @7:21PM cousin rob said... there are way too many narrow-minded, poorly-educated people posting their opinions here. You all demonstrate a clear lack of knowledge about most of what you are saying. You have no idea how hot dogs are made, and what from. You have no idea about food chains and healthier alternatives to eating meat. You are clueless about how animals kill one another for food, and about how humans kill animals for food. Shut the fuck up, eat what you want to eat, and just refrain from exposing your lack of knowledge whenever possible. Go ahead and say you hate hot dogs, and won't eat reindeer meat, but then please shut up. You all quit making sense after that.
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12-20-2006 @7:37PM Shawn said... Per cousin Rob posted at 7:20PM on Dec 20th, 2006
you are very rude and most of your comments were definately uncalled for. Just who do you think you are to tell others that their opinions do not matter or count you have your opinion on this matter and we have ours. So I say live and let live eat meat or don't eat meat the choice is yours and yours alone. Besides if anyone needs to shut up it would be you.
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12-20-2006 @7:30PM BB said... Just wait for Easter and get your Bunny Dogs!
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12-20-2006 @7:31PM John said... Number 15,
Watch a little more National Geographic. Animals do NOT kill quickly in the wild.
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12-20-2006 @8:08PM Dr Gene Emahiser said... We eat a lot of things without knowing what's blended in... and hot dogs are just one item, although perhaps the best known. I am mildly offended by the "Rudolph" moniker, but hey, that too is American, it is called marketing. Finding fault with that? Well, stop watching TV and reading magazines and billboards, bud, you are surrounded, come out with your money in the air. I'm from Minnesota; we are not shocked at all.
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1-09-2007 @9:05AM John said... For an "overly educated person" one person on here sure had no lessons in etiquette nor apparently were they taught any manners. I think you know to whom I am refering. Like my ole pappy always told me " If it smells like ass, more than likely it is ass." And yes I was in the populous that you so arrogantly insulted. For person of your educational background, (or so you say that you are but you DON'T have to give me a thesis statment on reindeer or a copy of your resume to prove it because frankly, I just don't care.) This site was provided for EVERYONE as a place to voice comments on a matter of interest. If you don't like the comments there is no reason to insult anyone else' abilites or the lack there of. Some of us poe peoples is just gittin by as best we can. So if you would in your good graces permit us, we would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak also, WITHOUT ridicule or insult. Ps Please do not email me about typos, etc. Im going to tell you like you told the rest of us Shut the Fuck Up!! John
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12-28-2006 @1:50PM Bob said... The company Reindeer Redhots, a hot dog stand busines specializing in Reindeer Hotdogs, in Sitka, Alaska might be offended by the trademark infringement.
Reindeer Redhots, LLC
105-A Monastery St
Sitka, AK 99835
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