"Jim Elbrecht" <
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> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:43:59 +1000, "Farm1" <He...@there.sometimes>
> wrote:
>
>>"notbob" <
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>>> On 2012-08-01, Farm1 <He...@there.sometimes> wrote:
>>>> "Christopher M." <
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>>>>> How do you eat your corn dog? Plain? With a little mustard?
>>>>
>>>> What is corn dog?
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't sound particularly appealing.
>>>
>>> You use the nick Farm1, yet don't know what a corn dog is? What kinda
>>> farm are you referring to? Farmville?
>>
>>We produce beef cattle. In my country we don't have corn dogs.
>>
>>I think the nearest thing to a corn dog would be a hot dog with batter on
>>it
>>with a stick up the middle that is sold at Shows (these Shows would be the
>>thing that USians would call a County Fair).
>
> That's a corn dog.
I thought it might be after someone posted a description but they didn't
metnion the stick so I wasn't sure.
>>
>>These hot dog things would be ordered by asking for a Dagwood dog. I'd
>>rather eat my elastic sided riding boots than eat a Dagwood dog.
>>
>
> In the USA a 'Dagwood' is a sandwich piled so high with toppings that
> it is impossible to get your mouth around it.
I seem to recall exactly the same thing having that name here but it's been
decades since I've heard that term applied that way and i've just checked an
Austarlian dictionary and it's not mentioned at all (whereas a 'Dagwood dog'
is mentioned as is its alternative name whihc is 'Battered sav'). I'm
fairly sure we used to call huge sangers Dagwoods when I was young.
Named for a cartoon
> character in the fifties from the strip Dagwood and Blondie. I
> don't remember him eating dogs on a stick- Do you know the OZ origin?
I suspect that I might Jim. :-)) It was probably a comic that featured
characters called Dagwood Bumstead and his wife Blondie :-)) I don't really
know though.
We got a huge amount of comics you'd know eg Pogo, Archie and Veronica etc