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So roomy in here today. Is it just us? I know, it is just us.
Heather's out of town, so we're having a good old-fashioned sausage fest.
I do love sausage.

[1:53] We're continuing our summer of theme park dining with a look at hot dogs, corn dogs, sausages, and other sausage-related products at some of our favorite theme parks.
Let's have a toast. We'll clang our sausages. No? Just me?
No. I'm going to pass on that offer. All right. I'm not into the sword fight right now.
Sorry. All right. Suit yourself. All over here, clang my own sausage.
In other words, the Friday night in the Williams establishment.
I started thinking about this topic after news broke a couple of weeks ago that the, Blue Ribbon Corn Dogs Hut, it's famous at Disneyland for having that pickle corn dog.
Oh, I love that thing.
I have not tried it. I'm excited for September when I will be able to try it.
But they're opening up a stand at Disney's Boardwalk at Walt Disney World. Oh, good.
It's unwieldy to eat because it's boiling hot when you first get it.
Very thick. Hard to fit all in your mouth at one time.
It's more of a knife and forker.

[2:55] So it's got some girth to it. Yeah, it's girthy and just it's easier to fork than to suck on.
But we're getting an E rating on this episode for sure.
Even bigger than that pickle dog. They they recently announced a jalapeno popper corn dog.

[3:14] And it is a gigantic poblano pepper. It's not actually.
It's stuffed with bacon, cream cheese and, of course, a hot dog before they read it and fry it and put it on a stick.
When is that opening? They did not put an official date. It was just one of those coming soon to the boardwalk kind of, yeah, kind of things.
I'm all about that.
Yeah. I was looking at their menu at Disneyland and I was really realizing that Disneyland is really kind of like the king of corn dogs. Oh yeah.
So Blue Ribbon, have you seen, is a seasonal right now, it's a meatball sub corn dog.
If I was more prepared, I would have had this loaded up blue and then expects you to be very prepared.
I know it's been three years at this point, but I'm not prepared by now for $15.
You get the meatball sub dog, which is mozzarella and meatballs fried in cornmeal batter served with marinara sauce and Parmesan cheese.
So there's no actual wiener there.
No, it's just like a fried meat stick. That sounds great though. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I would I will eat that they also have a golden dragon dog Which is breaded in panko breadcrumbs instead of the corn, Batter and they serve it with a side of sriracha mayo and some sweet Thai chili sauce I may just hang out there and eat only that for a week.

[4:37] Yeah, there's a lot but you can even get a breakfast corn dog out at Disneyland. Are you aware of this?
No, so in California adventure Here you go to the corn dog castle and they have a breakfast sausage and egg corn dog.
Oh yes. Yeah, which is breaded in the corn batter and then it's topped with powdered sugar and raspberry jelly.
Oh yeah, like Monte Cristo sort of thing.
Yeah, yeah, corn dog Monte Cristo.

[5:06] I plan on eating at least one of those, so join me. I will be there in Septiembre, I will do just that.
Is that all day or just at breakfast time? That's just at breakfast time.
So you got to get up a little early for that one.
But it's early in the park anyway. Yeah, that's nice because there's not always a lot of.
Breakfast options in the theme parks. I love that.
I love both of the corndog thing, but I like the little corndog castle.
They're the little it doesn't seem to have the line that the corndog cart does over at the sister thing at the Disneyland.
Yeah, over on Main Street USA and they only have plain old regular hot dog or corn dogs at that one.
Yeah, basic with a little thing of chips, but that is a good classic corn dog.
They have more variety over at the castle.
Yeah, for sure. That's not the weird variety that they do.

[6:01] At the Blue Ribbon Corn Dog. They get a little wacky out there in downtown Disney.
While Disney World is kind of lacking on the corn dog front, They really just have those questionable nuggets at Casey's Corner, I think.
I don't get it. I don't know why you... No, because... I don't know.
They seem like the ones that I get out of the frozen section at the grocery store and pop in the oven. Yeah.
No, they're, yeah, they're just that little crappy little nugget.
I don't know why we can't... You'd think being in the Southern United States, they would be deep frying everything.

The Lack of Corn Dogs at Disney World

[6:35] You would think.
Yeah, because the nuggets... I was seeing the crowd there. That's a corndog looking crowd.
We would tear that up. Oh, yeah.

[6:42] They do have some big fancy hot dogs at Casey's Corner. Oh, yeah.
I'm trying not to say the word wieners too often, but. Why is that?
Because, I mean, yeah.
You got to change it up a little bit. They do have, they do have a Chicago style dog there, which I'm always a fan of.
I really like that weird neon green relish that they put on Chicago hot dogs.
Yeah, the weird relish and the sport pickle, sport pepper, I mean.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's nice. that they have the, ooh, they have a Chipotle barbecue one right now.
So that's fun.
On a dog. On a dog. Yeah, it is a, it's a hot dog covered with pulled pork, coleslaw and Chipotle barbecue sauce.
I just love any kind of hot dog item. Yeah.
I went through a phase when I was younger where like hot dogs were children's food.
And then I learned to like cheeseburger and I left my childish ways behind me and eat hot dogs for the longest time. And then as an adult, I rediscovered that hot dogs could be delicious. And now I enjoy it. Good dog. Yeah, I like it. I like a dog.
Any just see even just a crappy old ballpark dog. I like it. Wasn't it? Pulling it out of that boiled steamer. Yeah. With steamer or soggy bun. Hot dog water. But the best is the steamed soft bun. It's nice. Those shreddy pickles. I like a good baseball stadium shredded pickle. Oh yeah.

[8:11] Or that last struggling wiener on the rotisserie thing at the gas station.
It's a little leathery. And yeah, where the skin is separated off the rest of the wiener.
You go for that one.
You like the char dog.
It's just like a leather sack that the rest of the dog is just kind of bouncing around inside of.

[8:35] I'll eat that guy. You head over to Blizzard Beach. They have a lunch counter there, and they have a bacon mac and cheese hot dog.
Oh, they used to have that at...
Maybe they still do it. The place across from the Tower of Terror. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you're right. It is there. That was the other place.
It was a truffle mac and cheese and bacon hot dog.
Yeah, I think they dropped the truffles in this economy. Yeah, this economy.
Yeah, it was like truffle oil, and then it was just like...
Then they just had the mushroom oil on it, and then they'd just sneeze on it.
I was just I was just yeah, I think it's just mac and cheese and bacon probably just mac and cheese now they don't even put bacon on.
They wave some bacon near it. Yeah. That's the essence.

[9:20] But the other really fancy hot dogs I got to try back last fall for the first time are, over at Disney Springs at B.B. Wolf's Sausage Company.
Yes. Oh my God. This is a place I always forget exists and then when I think of it I'm like it's really hot do I want a sausage in the boiling hot sun and I need to remember this because it sounds amazing. Yeah go there in the evening when it cools down a little bit and grab yourself a sausage the other thing is there's not a lot of table space because it's a freestanding thing but they have their main three hot dogs you can get as a sampler so they take one of their long hot dogs and cut into the three pieces and you'll get a pastrami Reuben dog which is exactly what it sounds like. It's literally a hot dog covered with pastrami, swiss sauerkraut, Russian dressing. It's amazing.

A Variety of Hot Dogs with Unique Toppings

[10:11] There's a section that is the Hawaiian Island dog, which has grilled pineapple, salsa, spam and teriyaki. I was about to say, please tell me there's spam on there.
I love when they put pork on top of other pork. Right?
Yeah. The multiple meats on the hot dog is kind of a newer thing I feel like, and I wholeheartedly endorse this trend.
Oh yes. The third section is the Texas chili cheese dog, which I'm not gonna lie, it was my least favorite of the three, but it was still really delicious. It's got Fritos on it.
Mm-hmm. And cheese. So it's always good. But the two highlights I wanted to take a look at today, are not part of that, not part of that little sampler tray that they do. So one of them is a Mardi Gras smoked craw dog.

[10:59] Yeah, this sounds very interesting. It could go awry or it could be amazing.
Yeah, so it's a smoked Andouille sausage, crawfish… Did you say crawfish?
Crayfish? Crawdad? What do you call them down in your neck of the woods? Crawfish.
Crawdads are what we called them when we were little, and we would go, like, into the ponds and stuff looking for them, but, like, to eat.
I can't eat a crawdad.
Yeah. Fair enough. But yeah, when we were looking for them in the, like, drainage ditches and stuff, we would call them crawdads. Drainage ditches.
Dish. You're really, you're really selling the culinary. They were like, there's a little weird spindly ones.
They weren't ones like you would eat like the big, mature, thick, thick crusted ones.
These were just like little ones, right? Yeah.

[11:46] We would literally go behind a 7-Eleven store and there was this like drainage ditch. We would go get crawdads out of there, get a whole bucket full of them and then just bring them home and like basically watch them till they died.
I don't know why we thought we were doing it with them. but it's just a fun thing to go to.
It's just life in the South, Dan. Oh, we've got a creek right behind her, right by our house, so you can pull a crawfish out of.
Yeah, go get you some, and just watch them till they die. It's a metaphor for life, for some love or something. I don't know.
That thing's also topped with some lemon caper aioli and a creole pepper sauce. Hmm.
Would you eat this wiener, Jeff? Oh, big time. I'll eat most any wiener, but that one does sound good.
Seems like it could be like salt overkill.
Yeah, that's what I was a little worried about, but I do love on Dewey sausage. Oh, yeah.

[12:38] I had. Yeah, I would definitely holler that. Oh, yeah. And they also Each of those ingredients are good, but together, who knows?
Let's try it. Put it on the list for next week. I've got a long list.

Korean Bulgogi Sausage Hot Dog: A Fusion of Flavors

[12:51] Let's do it. I've got a long list that possibly includes also this Korean bulgogi sausage hot dog.
It's Korean beef and pork sausage topped with bulgogi steak and pickled vegetables.
I love bulgogi.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's and that's this is like getting into the realm of things that you don't often see is this. Is this a B.B. Wolf? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna need to take a little trippy poo over there.
Oh, yeah. Get up there, go to— I've still not been into Jack Lindsay's. What?

[13:26] Yeah, I— Jeff, we've talked about this. I have not been to— I spend more time in the parks than I should, and not enough time eating and drinking places and stuff.
Oh, you're about to go with us. Right.
To No Cheer-ins. We don't even go to the parks. There you go.
I'm going to drag you into the park so you can do the fromage montage with me or something.
Yeah, I guess.
While we're still in Disney Springs, you mentioned you, Joy, the white pig has a...
Oh yeah, they've got a cheddar brat there that is really good. Smoked, yum.
I think you can get it on its own. You said you have seen it on its own.
I've always got it as part of the butcher's platter that they get there.
That's just like the giant butcher board with everything they serve on it.
That's one of my favorite parts of it. Yeah. That's the way to do barbecue in general.
You can get it as an entree on its own.
It's the brats with topped with a porter mustard glaze, and they serve it up with some jalapeno cornbread and their slaw.
It sounds delicious. Cheddar brats, barbecue cheddar brats. Yeah, something about when you like it's already smoked. I know how they cure it and all that, but then when you slow smoke it to.

[14:44] Repair it. It's just so good and they slice it and so it curls around as it cooks. Oh, Just busting out of that casing. Ooh, baby. Yeah Speaking of those curled up sausages like that that smoked sausage It's okay.
It's natural. Sometimes it goes one side or the other.
A little to the left. A little to the right. Whatever.

Roundup Rodeo BBQ: Surprisingly Delicious Smoked Sausage

[15:02] They also have that smoked sausage over at the Roundup Rodeo BBQ in Hollywood Studios.
I don't think it's... That's one I have not tried yet and would like to.
It's tasty. It's good barbecue. It's much better than I expected, given that it's a Toy Story restaurant.
I've heard it literally is better than it had any right to be.
Yep. It sure is. And that sausage was good. being a highlight of the meat offering.
From the dish. It was delicious. But it was also making me think of one thing I wish that I could get somewhere there is I wish they had a stand where I could get like those that.

[15:41] Italian sausage that you get at the county fair that's on a big coil and they chop off a section and they scoop up some of the onion and peppers and put it on a roll.
Oh yeah, that always smells so good. Oh yeah. I think they just keep that corner of pepper and onion going all the time.
Right, yeah.
A 12 foot coil of yeah, never ending sausage. I that's my that is always my go to at a fair or a festival and I wish I could get that, somewhere in Florida for some reason. I don't know.
Yeah, you'd think they'd have that somewhere.
Sausage and peppers or like a Chicago pepper and sausage on a yummy bun kind of thing.
Yeah, that's what they need to do in the American pavilion. They put in the Regal Eagle BBQ, but they've got those other stands.
I guess they mostly just use them at festival time. But instead of funnel cakes, let's have some other regional foods or type of other kinds of foods that you might get at a festival or something. That would be good.
Just like American regional foods throughout there.
Yeah.
Southern here, a little midwestern stuff there. Otherwise, it's just kind of a sad representation of what American food is like.
America is just funnel cakes and barbecue. That's it.
I mean, I guess if you go to a certain part of the country, that might be true, but.

[16:58] It's just proportionately Southern, I guess, if you just have barbecue and funnel cakes.
That's the whole South. I mean, the whole U.S.
I think they do some Midwestern stuff, some pizza, some Southwest food, I guess most American food is just other cultures' food that we ruined.
That's true. We had some potatoes. Worse Mexican food, worse Asian food.
That's true.
For some reason, it's still good, right? Yeah, enough salt and sugar to it and it's delicious.
You can get an excellent sausage right down the road from there in EPCOT though.

Germany Pavilion: Classic Bratwurst with Sauerkraut

[17:34] There's two great sausage options in the Germany pavilion. First, they've got that Summerfest snack stand. Oh yeah.
They've got beer, they've got pretzels, and they've got bratwurst with sauerkraut.
Just a good old classic brat. And that's a good brat.
I don't know what brand or whatever they use out there, but that's just a classic German brought with the good German mustard perfecto on a nice brochen. That bread that they use is so good.

[18:02] It's very good. There's always a line at that stand because that's where the good stuff is.
Because people know what's up. That's right. If you really know what's up, then you go away to the back of the pavilion into the ultimate sausage fest of Walt Disney World, the beer garden, restaurant. That's right. There's also the little stand just on the inside there too in that little dank hallway that was supposed to be the queue for the ride that never got built.
Right.
They got the little walk-up window too. I didn't realize that.
I've never been and seen that. There's a walk-up window there that has brats and they have bratwurst and knockwurst there too, which I really like. Nice.
And that's what they have inside Beer Garden, right?
Beer Garden is a whole big buffet of amazing sausages and knockwurst and bratwurst and All the worst things you've ever wanted to eat. All the worst.
I love German food and the entertainment is great. All the potato salads and pasta salads and oh yeah.

Authentic German Food and Entertainment at Beer Garden

[19:02] Good stuff. Schnitzels with noodles.
I love German food and German beers serve you beer the size of your head. Good stuff.
Yeah, and then it's another one of those spots where you go inside and you're magically outside at night and I'm a sucker for that environment every single time.
Yeah, it looks like you're at a beer fest in Germany during the October fest. and there's just...

[19:31] They've got the Alps horn and the whole entertainment thing.
I think they take about a 30, 20 or 30 minute break, but it's just constant entertainment cycle.
The oompah band's playing and they're playing the Alps horns and the bells and it's very silly.
People get up and dance. They have kids dance. They do a chicken dance.
It's somewhat communal seating, like bigger groups usually will get, if you're a group of six, you usually will have your own table. If you're four, you might sit with two other people or depending on how crowded they are, but it's fun. Every now and then you get stuck with someone boring. People that go there usually know what's up and they're there to do the ciggy, saggy, ciggy, saggy, oi, oi, oi, and have a good time. Lots of sausages to be found there, but I love German sausage. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a fun restaurant. German food in general.
I plan to go there and stay there. You're not going to want to eat and run in there.
It is a buffet, so you could do that, I guess, but it's a little pricey.
So enjoy yourself. Go for the entertainment. There's tons of food.

Sausage Delights and Communal Seating at Beer Garden

[20:38] Yeah, it's actually it's not just a show. It's an experience.
Like you said, you get you can participate along. So that's fun.
At least I think it's fun. You can get shwasted too. Yeah.
Yeah. With a great big old boot of beer. Do they have a boot?
Yeah, you can get a boot.

[20:53] I don't know why. the Canadian boot where they just want to know what's all this about?
We're talking about Das Boot. Yeah, that's right.
You can also get some bratwurst back at Magic Kingdom at the Friar's Nook.
They'll give you. I have never had that there. Yeah, they'll give you.
I've had the plain old bratwurst on a bun.
They'll serve it up that way. They also have right now a bratwurst tots, which are, they're topped with chopped up, Bratwurst plus some curry ketchup and apple slaw?
I always want this and it seems like it just comes and goes and I see it every now and then but I've never been able to get that. Yeah, they currently have it at Magic Kingdom so maybe when we're there for the uh... Have you had curry ketchup? Yes, I have. They had it. I love it so much. I hate ketchup. Curry ketchup? Delicious. Yeah. Yeah. So good. Yeah, I'm not a big ketchup fan either. I love curry ketchup especially on some a little bit of kraut and a little bit of curry ketchup. When I brought it, Super good, delicious, you know, some tots shut your mouth.
Yeah, they'll put on tots. You know what else to put on tots there?
If you show up at breakfast time, they'll put some sausage gravy on top of a plate of tots.
Oh, OK. I'm going to just gain all the weight I've lost right on back.

[22:10] If you do the parks the way I do, we'll walk 20 miles a day.
You'll stay fit. I will not be doing the parks the way you do.
I know how you do the park. We have very different lives. Yes.
See, we jumped around a little bit on my list. I've got a few more things.
Oh, the last thing of Walt Disney World is the very best sausage in all of Hollywood studios is on an alien planet back there in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. Oh, yes.
That Ronto wrap. That is good. It's so good. Ronto wrap.
I never forget about that. I know. What is that? Like a Portuguese sausage, I guess.
Yeah, some sort of spicy, not quite andouille, but some sort of similar to that spicy sausage Which flavor-wise is similar to Portuguese sausage, but it's thinner than those usually are. But that is a tasty sausage.
This thin wrapped and sliced pork. I like meat wrapped in other meats.
Yeah, that's been a theme here.
That's got a nice taste. Yeah, and then they put a little slaw on top of that and some spicy sauce too.
It's kind of a, it's a little bit of like a chipotle. Glad you mentioned that.
That's my favorite space sausage. And the breakfast one is really good too. Yeah.
It's like that with an egg. Right, yes.

[23:24] Quick enough to come up with what they would call the eggs in space, but yeah, yeah, that's right.
There you go. Space egg. That's definitely a good option. And I didn't want to forget the other theme park in theme parks in Orlando while we're on the subject.
You can head on over to SeaWorld, you can get a whale sausage.
I guess they leave Seymour and Clyde alone. They can take all the shampoo they want.
Gross. But you can get surprisingly good sausages and the entire menu at the two wizard pubs in Universal Studios, the Leaky Cauldron at Diagon Alley and then the Three Broomsticks at Hogsmeade, they're surprisingly good food.
Oh, they're good food, yeah.

[24:13] Like surprisingly like fresh and delicious and they don't taste like cheap theme park food at all.
No, and it's actually very efficient the way they like the line may look intimidating when you go in there, but they're super efficient working the crowd and they have the helper that helps you find a table and get sat down and eat and everything.
It's real efficient and yeah, that bangers and mash is good. Bangers and mash.
So bangers, that would be a, that would be a sausage for the non British people with some mashed potatoes. They serve that up with some tomatoes and some peas.
I'll tell you what. As a child, I couldn't eat peas, they made me gag.
And the only time I've ever voluntarily eaten peas as an adult and enjoyed them was those minted peas at...

[24:59] Culture. Oh yeah. The pies were like the one thing I could always eat even as little kids.
They're like, they're not mushy at all. They're just delicious and fresh. You can also get toad in the hole, which sounds a little weird. Yeah. So, so, so that's a, a Yorkshire pudding.
It's not getting better. Which is somewhat like, uh, what we Americans call a pop over, and shove a sausage in it and put some gravy on up on there and get yourself toad in the hole.
I never knew what that was. I saw that on the menu and wasn't sure what it was.
Yeah, it's good. It's pop over.
And I love a scotch egg. Oh yeah, scotch egg. That's the other thing they have. Super tasty.
It's like what? It's like an egg wrapped in sausage and then panko rolled and fried, right? Yes.
Yeah, that is. I could eat a lot of those. with a little bit of mustard, some spicy mustard and delicious.
That's an odd sounding and looking thing, but boy, is that tasty.
Yeah, it's a nice it's like a it's like a pub snack.
It's really good. The other sausage they have there is if you manage to get a breakfast reservation, the traditional English breakfast comes with a black pudding, which is a sausage that is made with blood.

[26:16] I've never tried that, and I don't think I'm going to try it.
But it's there if that's the one that's like, I can't believe that they're serving this in a, just a theme park restaurant, like.
Yeah, the Germans have a blood sausage too, it's a blood, blut first. I can't just.

Disney's Skipper Canteen and the Lion Fish Menu Disaster

[26:36] Most anything but Carrie's mother likes that one and I have not yet done that. Not quite there yet.
I'm just surprised that they managed that they that's one of those things that like when Disney opens up a fancy restaurant like Skipper Canteen and they put a whole fried lion fish on the menu and then they take it off the menu because nobody's ordering it.
Yeah and then this place still has blood sausage on the menu like which was incidentally the name of my first death metal band.
We need a compilation of all your band names. I know. Yeah, we're gonna have a festival.
Oh, I can't. I need to make a festival shirt. Oh, t-shirt. Yeah.
I'll go back and make a list for you. Oh, that's a great idea. Write that down.
The other place which you can get some hot dogs at Universal is over in City Walk.
I need to load up this app for the menu real quick because it is an impressive list.
They have the Hot Dog Hall of Fame.
I've had a couple of dogs from there. Only a couple? I did not know they had this thing you just told me about.
Okay, so one of the highlights of the menu is a two-foot-long hot dog.

[27:48] Yeah, two-foot-long hot dog. I got to feel like this is two separate wieners.
It just lovingly nestled tip to tip inside an oversized bun, gently slathered with some Yeah, they have to work at it a minute, but it makes its own sauce.
If you're not up for the two foot long, oh yeah.
No, it's, it is, it looks like it is a single two foot long hot dog served on a baguette. But how thick is it?
I don't know. We'll have to plan a trip to Universal Orlando to find out.
I'll ask Kendra to tell me she's there right now. Oh, yeah.
But they have 14 different kinds of hot dogs there, including the two foot long hot dog.
They have the Chicago dog here at Standard Chicago that we talked about.
They also have a Colorado dog, which is just got weed on it.
Grilled peppers and onions, plus sauerkraut.

[28:51] What do you think goes on a Kansas City dog? What's Colorado about that?
I don't know. That's what they call it. Kansas City dog. What's on that?
Pulled pork, coleslaw, pickles, barbecue sauce. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, Kansas City barbecue. What goes on a Boston dog?
You're gonna be disappointed. A crab or something.
No, I thought you were gonna say beans. It's a toasted New England style bun.
Spicy brown mustard, diced onions and relish. There's the Washington dog.
It's kind of like a dog. I don't know. It's a dog. It's a dog.
It's a dog. It's a dog.
It's a dog. It's a dog. It's a dog.
There's the Washington dog. It's got an apple on it. Yes, wooden teeth, right?
Yes, sprinkles liberally on. No, that one has buffalo sauce, coleslaw, blue cheese dressing, and some celery salt. Have any people been to these states? I don't know.

[29:35] We're not even done with this list. New York dog has a has sauerkraut and mustard. The Arizona dog is smoked bacon, pinto beans, grilled onions, and peppers, and cheese.
Milwaukee dog is a brat with grilled onions and spicy brown. Detroit dog has Coney chili and diced onions which Detroit chili sauce is not chili it's weird. Chili on a Detroit dog. Yeah it's a specific it's a specific Michigan version of Coney it's not like Coney Island it's weird we have our own weird it's a whole thing. They're Michigan hot dogs I don't know. There's Italian sausage with provolone cheese, onions and peppers, and then the giant footlong dog.
So, oh, they also have, actually, all of those sound good. They just have weird names. Yeah.

The Vegan Dilemma at the Hot Dog Hall of Fame

[30:23] They also, if you're a vegan, they have a field dog, which is a hot dog, which I believe, they make that with mashed up root vegetables inside a case.
And then they, I also feel like if you're a vegan, you're not going to the hot dog hall of fame. No.
Like, why do you have to pretend to eat meat when you're a vegan?
I've never understood that.
Yeah, but anyway, this seems like there's plenty of other restaurants you might be going to you would think, something less assorted like salad hut.

A Sausage Adventure Awaits

[30:55] My favorite of the huts That's a lot. I'm looking forward to going and eating some of these sausages next week. I know who knew that there were so many, So many sausages you did apparently you made a hell of a list here. Thank you. Thank you I'm excited to cross them off my list and, We're definitely going to hit a BB wolf. Oh, yeah. Also, it took me an embarrassingly long time to get that.
That was a big day.
Yeah, I guess it was years into that place being open before it hit me.
And I was like, oh, yeah, it's fair because they don't. There's nothing in like the signage or anything that would point you to.

The Slow Burn of Figuring Things Out

[31:37] Oh, yeah, I know. And Betty's eating pig. I mean, it's all there.
It does. They don't hit you over the head.
They leave you to figure it out on your own sweet time. Which eventually you do.
Yeah, it was a lot of my own sweet time.
But you felt good once you finally got it. Yeah, yeah, it was a slow burn.
Seven years later, oh! I see what you did there.
Maybe one of our listeners just now was like, oh, that's what that is.
I hope so, or they're all going, God, Justin. Yeah, we weren't trying to make you all feel dumb.
Oh, no, they're all now they all just know I am either way. It's good listening. Oh, yeah.
It's entertaining. You either learn something or you learned I'm a moron the way we learned the way you, learn top tier entertainment.
I would say thanks for hanging out with us again this week. If you're excited to chow down on a theme park corn dog, is it anywhere else around the world?
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[33:50] Music.

Introduction: Outer Vibe's Hoka Hey as Intro and Outro

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[34:09] Music.

Embrace life's brevity and explore the vast world around you.

[34:19] Of the Gold Key Adventurer's Society. And until then, remember, life is short and the world is wide, so go have an adventure.