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As if the wait wasn't already long enough, you might want to start packing a snack before heading to Hot Doug's since the line is probably going to be growing ever longer whilst you wait to order your lunch. Anthony Bourdain has just named Hot Doug's as one of "13 places to eat before you die." [Men's Health]
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I dunno who does Dougie's PR, but that dude earning his keeps. This stand gets so much PR it's nuts. I like the place.
Bourdain's list reads more like 13 places to eat at so you can die.
My desire to eat at Hot Doug's is inversely proportional to the length of skinny-panted line out the door.
Yeah, the hipster crowd can be obnoxious. Especially the ones who think that it's cool to smoke in line. Though I did see a very large man with his kids politely request that a hipster sucking on a parliament take his cancer walking. Being the sniveling skinny-jeans little genital wart all hipsters are he slunk away on his fixie.
I may be exaggerating that for effect.
You can call ahead and they'll have your order waiting. Doug is just the nicest gent. My only quibble is he needs an out door. Wedging past people in line on the way out is a bit awkward.
But hey, he's the successful entrepreneur and I'm some jackhole on the internet.
I'll never get what drives hipster trends. It's like that whole bacon thing, as if bacon were some new delicacy they suddenly discovered out of nowhere and not something you've been able to get at 3 a.m. from any Denny's for the last 50 years. This is a hot dog stand. It may very well be a good hot dog stand, but still, it's a hot dog stand.
I haven't been to Hot Dogs since he moved from his old location, I won't wait in epic lines for food, sorry. But at least at the old place I would never have considered it a 'hipster' hangout.
Yeah, I think it's a little disingenuous to label the place as a hipster hangout. Last time I checked it seems pretty popular with just about everyone, despite the relative tightness of their jeans.
Oh I beg to differ. The game of the week and specialty hot dogs (dear god, the shitake mushroom sausage they have every so often, unreal) make it something beyond.
I don't care for the fries, I just dig the crazy food combination in hot dog form.
Okay, here's where I cross over into crotchety old guy territory.
Why do you have to complicate a hot dog? All you need is some questionable meat by-product industrially squeezed into sacks of intestines and put on a processed white bread bun with some mustard and relish. Anything else is just gumming up the works and ruining something that was just fine the way it was.
And anyway, all I'm really complaining about is that I'm 15 years and 40 pounds past my skinny jean window, and I'm bitter over it.
Let me personally guarantee you, their Game of the Week sausages aren't gumming up the works. They're incredibly, wait-in-line-forever, good.
Their plain old hot dogs with the works are EXCELLENT as well. Doug knows his encased meats.
I only get defensive because every time I've been in there he's been a mensch, nice to every customer and he serves a great product. Worth the wait.
I've only been to Katz's and Hot Dougs. I think I need to step my game up.
El Bulli, French Laundry, here I come!
*in 5 years*
one time i was gonna go to jewel, but i saw a hipster walk past my apartment window so i just stayed home and starved to death.
hipster crowd? geez.
everything single time I've been to hot dougs (which is alot since I live down the block), the crowd is mostly fat white dudes that look like they're on lunch break or in from the suburbs or couples that are just getting a bite to eat. hot dougs isnt exactly like going to the burlington or pitchfork, folks.
and if you think it is, I think that's just a sign that you're becoming more and more of a hateful and jaded person as time passes in your cubicle.
Maybe it's just when I go, but I always catch more of a working-class vibe when I'm there. Dudes in work shirts and boots. And my god, it is indeed a hot dog stand, but what you can get there bears no resemblance to any other hot dog stand.
What is with this "hipster" paranoia. It's worse than the communist scare of the 1950s. I mean really, get a grip.
They are, by and large, an unpleasant people, mostly due to their desire to hate everything anybody else likes. Their own worst enemies, really.
So if you hate hipsters because somebody else likes hipsters, are you a hipster?
You just made my brain esplode.
Wait, so you're telling me you hate hipsters because they hate almost everything? When will America wake up and start tolerating others' intolerance?
Kind of like fat-people paranoia, perhaps.
nah, I just fat people are gross.
Every subculture (and that's what hipsters are) gets slammed. Hipsters tend to get a bit more bashing because their attitude grates. The affectation, the posing, the faux boredom, the over-educated snobbery, the pretension to look at once excited and yet also wildly bored, the brand identity (AA, Apple, Converse, PBR) it's obnoxious. Add to that a propensity for self-mockery that kind of sets the bar and you're off to the races.
Goths, stoners, emo-kids, fratboys, trixies/chads. It's all just cultural short-hand, easy pejoratives.
But yeah, most hipsters are pretty much douchebags.
Matty, are you now, or have you ever been, a card-carrying member of the hipster party?
I was waiting for this discussion to go off the rails.
That being said, the one time I did go there it was a holiday and the place was closed. and yes, leaving after taking a dejected look at the front door were quite a few people who would qualify as "hipsters". And a dad and his two sons. And me. So I don't know who the fuck goes there.
I'll give you my complete view on hipsters later.
I bet 90% of people who are hating on hipsters here are hipsters themselves.
Everyone knows that, as a good hipster, you're supposed to claim to hate other hipsters.
I am among the 10% who hate on hipsters without being one, as hipsters are really just the current embodiment of a subgroup I've hated on going all the way back to the hippies and their beatnik predecessors. I just have something against a cultural demographic based on faux philosophy I've so often seen abandoned later in life. For the most part, though, this is a rant I don't really care about except when I'm riding up Milwaukee toward Damon and some batch of hipsters step in front of me slowly while looking the other way. But then, you get that anywhere.
Meanwhile, I'll admit that were I fifteen years younger, I might be a hipster, or at least as close to a hipster as I could get without facial hair while wearing Target clothes and riding a geared bike because I think fixies are silly.
"I am among the 10% who hate on hipsters without being one, as hipsters are really just the current embodiment of a subgroup I've hated on going all the way back to the hippies and their beatnik predecessors. I just have something against a cultural demographic based on faux philosophy I've so often seen abandoned later in life."
I agree, but for me, my main criticism of hipsters is that they are so freaking consumerist--obsessed with products and labels (clothes, music, etc), even if cheap or "indie" ones--while pretending not to be. And like every subculture--heavy-metal kids, for instance--there is this tremendous conformity, again while the members of the subculture are pretending they are unique (nothing's really been new under the sun for quite some time, but that's another story). Let your freak flag fly, but don't pretend your flag is really that different from others.
None of this would merit comment were it not for the tendency of some hipsters--certainly not all--to act as though they are above rank consumerism.
I'm with you ... it's the hypocritical consumerism and false notions of nonconformity that really drive me nuts, the sense that they are so unique with their sense of self-expression that is just like the self-expression of all those around them, as well as the self-expression of their parents and grandparents before them. It's the overbearing naivete that bugs me,and I look forward to watching them grow out of it. Then they'll be just like the rest of us, hating on whatever replaces the hipsters.