My Hunk of Spunk (HOS) arrived on Thursday, and fortunately for all of us he loves to eat almost as much as I do...soooooooooooooo after he got off the plane, saw the nice hotel, I took him to a place I had been saving for his first night in the USA. Pink's.
If you remember Les the Local Lad (USA 1), he told me that a visit to LA is not complete without a visit to Pink's. So off to Pink's we went.
Pink's is the most famous hot dog place in LA, in fact from what I can gather, it's an institution here. We rocked up about 8pm on a Thursday night - and there was a big queue out the front (I had been warned). We jumped on the end of the queue to wait our turn. I had a good look around - the queue was mostly locals from what I could gather, and lots of families too - on this dark street just near Sunset Blvd.
Apparently this joint started as a simple hot dog stand in 1939 by Paul Pink. He started selling his chili dog - which is a bun, big frankfurt, mustard, chili and chopped onions - from the first day. In 1946 he turned his little cart into a small building - and the current Pink's is still in the exact same place.
Anyway, enough of the history lession! We finally got to order - and of course for me it had to the be the famous Chili Dog and for Hunk of Spunk (HOS) it was a cheese chili dog - and a side of fries with some creaming soda to wash it all down. Now, food fans, it must be said, that I have never in my life seen so many different types of hot dogs - you could have had bacon on it, guacomole, salad, cheese (about 10 different wacky types), mushrooms - in fact they had all these weirdo combos named after famous people or shows. But we went traditional.
Luckily, when it came time to order, the people in front were able to tell me how it worked - you order at one spot, outside, then get your order and pay when you're inside. All pretty simple.
We took our chili dogs out the back where there's heaps of tables and chairs to enjoy our first ever chili dogs. The anticipation by this time was intense...we'd been on the queue for about half an hour...you can see how apetising it looked, above, hmmmm...took a bite...looked at each other...and found the whole thing a bit, well, tasteless!! BLOODY HELL!! I had seen the guy in front of me with his chili dog with bacon and chopped tomato on his - I wanted that one now!!! It all was just a bit blah blah, and HOS felt the same way. The chili needed more kick - the onions were a good touch, but it felt like a whole heap of tommy sauce was missing. Hmmmmm. Bugger!
Back to the hot dog drawing board I'm afraid.
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