Phat Dogs

I have to be honest: I would have never given Phat Dogs a second look, much less
stepped inside, if it was not for my co-worker’s insistence that we were eating there for lunch. Given that McDonald’s was the only other option in the vicinity of
where we were working Monday, I did not put up much of a fight.

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The Phat Dog

Call me a hot dog snob, but when I see a place in a strip mall with “dogs” in the name, I tend to think of cheap, boiled hot dogs and an evening of gastric misery. Hot dogs are cheap fare reserved for baseball games and the kid’s menu at your friends’ 4^th of July barbeque and not something I go out of my way
to dine on.

Phat Dogs is not this type of hot dog joint. It made me realize that there are actually two types of hot dog restaurants in the world – the ones I avoid… and Phat Dogs.

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