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[MinuteGal]

Photo in # 5 is a Chicago hot dog....Vienna hot dog, poppyseed bun, tomatoes, yellow mustard, sweet relish, chopped white onion, thin dill pickle slice, thin cucumber slice optional, hot or sweet pepper god no!......a little dash of black pepper......then sprinkle a few dashes of celery salt over the whole work of art (the celery salt is what makes it a genuine Chicago dawg).

Any of you freepers out there remember growing up in the western Chicago suburbs and chowing down regularly with "Frenchie's" Chicago hot dogs and a side of wonderful fries?

I think Frenchies is long gone. "Portillo's" drive-throughs have good Chicago hot dogs, but no match for Frenchie's of the old days.

How about this...I used to date a young Portillo in MY younger days....and now he's a multi-millionaire derived from his Chicago-area drive-through-or-eat-in restaurants.

Here in Florida I make my own Frenchie's. Occasionally I bump into a Chicago suburbs ex-pat and we pine together as we fondly reminisce over Chicago hot dogs, Italian beefs and pizza....all of which especially-tasty treats are non-duplicated down here in the southland.

Bon appetit!

Leni