Category: Tubular Meats

With Relish!

7/19/2017

From our food editor, Verla Burrell-Bordelon:

When Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twcie removed -- at her request) invented the hotdog, he did not share his recipe with anyone. To this day, the full list of ingredients remains a mystery! What's in a hotdog? It really doesn't matter -- because they taste sooo good!

Dickinson used to say, "I love hotdogs, and I eat them with relish!"

Below (on the left) is one of Dickinson's now classic poems about the tubularl, meatty wonder. Hopefully, since today is National Hotdog Day, this poem will insprie you to run down to 7-11 to purchase and down a dog or two -- with relish! The poem did inspire third cousin Emily to pen her poem (below on the right) with the same opening line.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Experiment to me
Is every tubular meat
If it contains any Beef?
The Figure of a Rod

Presents upon a Rack
Equally plausibly,
With Meat within, is requisite
To Diners, and to Me.

By Emily Dickinson:

Experiment to me
Is every one I meet
If it contain a Kernel?
The Figure of a Nut

Presents upon a Tree
Equally plausibly,
But Meat within, is requisite
To Squirrels, and to Me.

More on Dickinson's love of tubular meats can be found HERE.

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4/10/2016

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Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) invented the hotdog (information is HERE at the bottom of the page), and National Hot Dog day is the third Wednesday of July (except when Wednesday falls on July 1st, then it is held on the 4th Wednesday). But have you walked into a 7-11 lately? They have a whole host of tubular meats rolling on their grills -- and for most of them, a particular or specific type of meat cannot be identified.

Emmett Lee Dickinson foresaw the age of tubular meat in his visionary poem "Surprise is like a rolling – pungent" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Surprise is like a thrilling — pungent" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Surprise is like a rolling – pungent –
And cylindrical meat
Alone – too acrid – with mustard
An edible Delight.

By Emily Dickinson:

Surprise is like a thrilling – pungent –
Upon a tasteless meat
Alone – too acrid – but combined
An edible Delight.

So the next time you're in a 7-11, think of Emmett Lee Dickinson, sample a tubular meat -- and don't forget to add the mustard!.

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With Relish!

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