- Hey, y'all. You know, it just wouldn't
be the 4th of July without a hot dog, would it? Everybody has their own way
that they like their hot dog and Lord have mercy, there's
so many ways to do it. I remember when I was in high
school, we had three hangouts. We had the Arctic Bear, Gary's Super Sub, but the most popular was the Brazier, which is known as a Dairy Queen now. They made the best slaw dogs. Us high schoolers, we didn't
eat much, but if we ate, there's a good chance it was
gonna be a Brazier slaw dog. So that's what I'm gonna
make for me and Eddie today in celebration of the 4th of July. Now, a lot of people like
their hot dogs on the grill. They like the char marks,
they like the charcoal taste. And of course, I do too, but I'm not gonna start
a fire for four hot dogs. So I'm gonna do them just like my mother and my grandmother did them. I'm gonna boil them in boiling water until they're hot through and through. And the coleslaw I'm gonna
make is not tricky at all. It's just, I'm gonna make a standard, kind of my standard coleslaw. And there's a convenience
food out there, y'all, slaw that has already been shredded. And it's very, very convenient. You can get it angel hair style, or you can get it a coarse kind of grate that we do by hand. But I'll tell you this,
fresh made coleslaw is so much better than the packaged. I know it's so easy and so convenient. And this is not necessarily so easy. It does take a little elbow grease. Okay, y'all, just give
it a little texture, I like to take my cabbage and then kind of shred it thin just to give it some texture and interest along with the grated. Do you see what I mean? I kind of liked the way that looks. So we just gonna slice
the rest we didn't grate. We gonna slice it up and
throw it in with our grated. All right, now to our cabbage. And this is, you know, strictly up to you. If you like onion in your
coleslaw, put it in there. If you don't like onion in it, then chop your onion and put it in a dish and let folks put onion
on their own hot dog. But I think everybody here likes onions, so I'm gonna just chop a little onion. To me, you just can't get
too much onion on a hot dog. So let's talk maybe a little
bit about the hot dog. I don't know how much
you know about hot dog, but it's been around a
long, long, long time. In fact, I read something that
it was went far back as B.C. So they've been around a long time. But they started out as a sausage dog. All right, so I'm gonna share with y'all how the term hot dog got its name. And supposedly, some say
the word was coined in 1991 at the New York polo
grounds on a cold April day, and vendors were hawking
their hot sausages. And they had them on a cart in hot water, and they would go through the crowds and they would shout, "They're red hot, get
your Dachshund sausages while they're red hot." And a New York journalist
sports cartoonist, Ted Dorgan, observed the scene, and he hastily drew a cartoon of a bunch of barking Dachshund sausages nestled warmly in rolls. And he didn't know how to
spell the word Dachshund, so he simply wrote hot dog. And the cartoon is said
to have been a sensation, thus coining the term hot dog. However, historians have not
been able to find this cartoon. And despite Dorgan's enormous body of work and his popularity, it
has not been found yet. So that's it about the hot dog, y'all. And I don't care what they call it, just make sure they call it
when I come to the table. So now I'm gonna make
our sauce to go on it. And I like kind of a sweet coleslaw. And that may look like a lot of cabbage, but you don't want to drowned it, you know, in mayonnaise. So little bit is gonna go a long way. Now I've got my mayonnaise
and I'm using just a white distilled vinegar. Maybe a tablespoon, right Eddie? - [Eddie] Yeah. Didn't that look like about a tablespoon? And to get it a little sweet, I'm gonna add about a tablespoon of sugar. And I'll just taste this
along until I get it just like I like it. So I'm gonna put in some our silly salt. And you don't want to put much, because the salt will be pulling the water out of the cabbage
and making it watery. All right. So it's gonna take just a minute for the mayonnaise and the vinegar to kind of melt the sugar,
for lack of a better word. All right, let's see. Stick your finger in there, Eddie, or here, you can do it on this, whatever. You think it's sweet enough? - [Eddie] Yes, it definitely
has a sweet taste. - Okay. I'm gonna add some celery seed just to kick this up a little bit, and I'm gonna add some black pepper. This is kind of a slow way
to get pepper, isn't it? Okay. All right, want to make
sure it's vinegary enough. Okay. I was out of carrot, so
I had to go next door and borrow some shredded
carrots from Bobby and Cloud. So I do, I'm not a big carrot lover, but I do like them in my coleslaw for a little bit of color. Okay, let me check on our hot dogs. Our hot dogs are boiling. I'm starting to swallow hard, Eddie. I'm getting hungry. Okay, so my grandmother
Paul served her buns, her hamburger and hot dog buns a little different from
what my mother did. Grandmother would get
a nice pot, you know, that had a wide circumference. She would put her colander on top of that. You don't want a colander
touching the water. And then she would put a dish rag, and she would separate her hot dog buns and our hamburger buns and steam it over that hot boiling water. So if you like a real soft, warm bun, that's the way to do it. But I'm gonna share with
y'all how my mother did it. And we loved them that way. All right, I'm gonna cut our
hot dogs down a little bit. And gonna take my soft butter and I'm gonna butter the
sides of my hot dog bun. Now, this is one of those hot dogs that's cut down the center. And I actually, I kinda like them because it keeps everything in your dog, in your bun a little bit better than I think one slice to the side. I don't know. That's just up to you. Personal preference. I don't care as long as I have a bun. All right, so we're gonna
toast this in our skillet. Look, look at that Max,
what he's done, Eddie. - [Eddie] Max, Max. - Oh, he's so bad. All right, let's see. I may, I think I may grate a
little onion for our sauce. (grater thudding) Oops, excuse me. Hope I didn't scare you. Okay, so in that goes. I have all different kind of cabbage, I mean, coleslaw recipes, y'all. But for my hot dog, I like just a plain, plain old coleslaw. And it looks like I didn't mix up enough, but this does get wetter as it sits. So I'm just gonna take another
little scoop of mayonnaise, and that's all you have to
do if you're a little short. Nothing tricky, nothing
fancy about this coleslaw. Okay, so our coleslaw is ready. That was simple. Once you get it grated,
it's not hard at all. So I've just turned our buns on, So I'm gonna toast those
nicely on both sides. Now, Aunt Peggy can't eat a
hot dog without sauerkraut. Personally, me, I don't care for it. You can put mustard, ketchup. You know, I'm a mayonnaise freak. So I eat mayonnaise on my hot dogs. No matter what kind of hot dog I'm eating, whether it's a chili, a cheese, a slaw, or just a plain hot dog. You can put a sweet relish on it, you can put a dill pickle relish on it. In fact, we'd love to hear from y'all and hear what all you
put on your hot dogs. Oh, I do love a chili cheese. But for the 4th of July, we gonna do a hail to the
Brazier in Albany, Georgia. A shout out all you kids
that went Albany High from the year '63 to '65, you know exactly what I'm talking about. At the break, you know, we didn't have, we didn't have access to music like all the folks nowadays do. So somebody would take
their record player. And when I say record player,
I mean a real record player with the vinyl records. And we would find some
electricity up there behind the, in the parking lot of the Brazier, and one of the songs, and I remember just blasting through the air was "Hot nuts, get 'em from your peanut man." I remember those boys playing that record. But those was some good
old, fun, fun days. You ready to eat, Eddie? - [Eddie] I'm ready. - All right. I put a sausage dog, I put
mayonnaise, mustard and coleslaw. I don't put anything else
on it because I just like, I just like the true coleslaw taste that comes with the hot dog. All right. So, I'm gonna get us
out some chips, Eddie. Oh, these are crumbs. I'm gonna have to use those on top of a casserole or something. And I think hot dogs scream
for potato chips, don't you? - [Eddie] Yes. - All right, what do you
want on your hot dog, Eddie? - [Eddie] Just coleslaw. - Just coleslaw, no
mayonnaise, no mustard, no ketchup, no nothing? - [Eddie] Yep. - Okie-dokie, want to come over here and let everybody see how Mama Kari got these buns ready for a hot dog? Okay, so we're almost there. I see some hot dogs waiting
on a hot dog, Eddie. So the Brazier was
certainly the place to get a great slaw dog. But we had a little hot
dog restaurant in Albany that was, gosh, it was started
before I was born, Eddie. And you know what I'm talking about. Jimmy's Hot Dogs. When my brother Bubba would go home, he'd come back with a
sack of Jimmy's Hot Dogs for me to put in the freezer, and Bubba and I've eaten a
many leftover Jimmy's Hot Dog that we've pulled out of the freezer. So this is it. Our beautiful bun is nice and toasty warm. Okay, Eddie Am I keeping you up, Eddie? (laughs) He was just yawning, y'all. Is this hot dog gonna put you to sleep? - [Eddie] It's a rainy afternoon. - Oh, it is a beautiful rainy afternoon. Perfect. All right, so I'm just gonna
put your coleslaw in there. So there you go. There's your slaw dog. Can I put more pepper on it? - [Eddie] Nope, that's good. - Okay, so true to my word, this mayonnaise jar is just about empty, but I'm gonna smear what's left on it. And then I'm gonna come over
here and put me some mustard, 'cause I like the mustard
with the coleslaw. Remember after you get your
coleslaw made, just taste it, and if it needs something else, you can correct your
seasonings at that time. By the way, y'all, Jimmy's Hot Dogs is still open and thriving
in Albany, Georgia. So this is a salute to
the American hot dog that the German immigrants
brought over to us. And aren't we glad they did. Get your hot Dachshund dog right now. (laughs) Hot dog's, much better, isn't it? Have a happy, happy 4th
of July and be safe.
