redtressed
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The Real McCoys
Sat, 03/19/05 11:35 AM
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I'm just curious as to how many people have ever had "fresh" hot dogs, made in a local butcher shop. To this day, the best hot dogs I've ever been privy to munch upon, were from VanScoy's Market in Pennsboro, WV. These were big, fat dawgs, about the size of brats, strung together in strings of a dozen. If Mr. VanScoy was out of them.....and you had a real hankerin', he'd grind up and process a new batch, right before your eyes. If you looked especially needy, he'd even fix a couple for you, while you were there. I sure hope there are still some places like this around.
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tiki
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RE: The Real McCoys
Sat, 03/19/05 12:16 PM
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i have had them---BUT---havent seen any in MANY years now!!! Wish i could find them!!! I had a butcher in a little market back home that is now basically just a liguor store---great wines though!--but back then--the butcher wore a white shirt and tie---freshly polished shoes---clean shave--very classey guy---and they made GREAT hot dogs!!! But alas---oh well---maybe there is still someone in this country still doing that---but i havent seen it!
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Bushie
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RE: The Real McCoys
Sat, 03/19/05 7:34 PM
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I used to drive to Schulenburg back in the 80's to buy weiners from a butcher shop/smokehouse. They were the best locally-made weiners I had found. All I can find these days around here are sausages. No real "hot dogs" that I've found. Real weiners are more of a "northern thang", I assume. Too bad for me, because I adore a "real" dog. 
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seafarer john
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RE: The Real McCoys
Sat, 03/19/05 8:50 PM
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When John Fox took us on his great hot dog tour the first place we stopped had a really nice "German Butcher" type hot dog - it took me right back to Poughkeepsie and the Kirchner's Market of my younger years where they made their own hit dogs and all kinds of cold cuts and suasages and all the butchers wore white aprons, a necktie and a straw hat.. Alas, they went out of busines sometime in the '50s ,as did all the real butcher shops around our area. There is one left here in the Hudson Valley, in a place called West Camp, NY, near Saugerties and Kingston is the "Pork Store", last I knew ( a couple of years ago) they were still making hot dogs and they were pretty darn good. Think I'll check it out this week...
Cheers, John
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