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The Slaw Dog Resurrection on Tuesday evening

By Tom Chandler 5/13/2006

Due to overwhelming demand (and several thinly veiled threats from Dave Edmondson), Tuesday evening will find me hosting a Tennessee Slaw Dog cookout at the Trout Underground World Headquarters.
The Tennessee slaw dog

For those who can't make it but wish to simultaneously participate in this homage to Eastern Tennessee gas station food, the equipment list for the original slaw dog is as follows:


  1. Thin, pink hot dog (boiled)


  2. White hot dog bun


  3. Bright yellow mustard from a bright yellow plastic squeeze bottle


  4. Chopped white onions


  5. Canned chili (no beans)


  6. Creamy, sweet cole slaw chopped fine



Though the original gas station dog was boiled, we're going to grill a higher-quality (girthier) dog. Otherwise, we're going to stay true to the original ingredients (if I learned anything watching those sci-fi movies about giant radioactive ants, it's that playing god often has dire consequences). Whether this results in an authentic slaw dog remains to be seen, but since I may be the only person in attendance equipped to judge, I'm pretty sure we're going to hit it out of the park.

Of course, some will see this as simply a chance to eat bad food and wash it down with good beer. Others (people of vision like myself) see it in larger, more universal terms; it's a way to emphasize the essential humanity of all god's children, and to do this, we're going to connect the two widely divergent cultures of Eastern Tennessee and mountainous Northern California with a junk-food bridge.

Unlike other fly fishing sites – which provide little beyond information about catching fish - the Trout Underground has embarked on a far loftier mission: We're bringing humanity together – one bad meal at a time. See you Tuesday, TC.


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Tom Chandler

As the author of the decade leading fly fishing blog Trout Underground, Tom believes that fishing is not about measuring the experience but instead of about having fun. As a staunch environmentalist, he brings to the Yobi Community thought leadership on environmental and access issues facing us today.

Thats one delicious looking slaw dog.
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Just so y'all know, here in the South a hot dog has mustard, chili and onions on it. So the ingredients of a "slaw" dog are pretty apparent. I enjoy your blog. If you make east into Raleigh, let me know. Andrew
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ohhhhh. Burger Barn. 2100 miles on I-10 and I-5 away... You guys are evil. Luckily I've found a place here in the Lone Star that serves greasy double meat and cheese burgers in dripping paper. Complete with donkey riding music and too many layers of repainted walls. Looking forward to the photo essay on the slaw vision quest.
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Dave clearly has his finger on this area's culinary pulse; the slaw dog would certainly become an instant top seller, popular with both diners and the number crunchers at the local cardiac unit. I think our only significant deviation from the original TN slaw dog ingredients will be the dog itself; we're looking at a bigger, better dog than in the gas station original. Sure, at the Underground we're ... more cheap and easy, but we do have style.
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And when you state "bringing humanity together", one must assume you're not counting vegetarians or lawyers. I can already visualize the evolution of this whole program. You host slaw-dog night, everyone loves 'em, an enterprising member of our group begins selling them locally(like at the Burger...er Slaw-Dog Barn, we all claim that the slaw-dog was invented in Northern California and before ya' ... more know it several places in Mt. Shasta will begin serving the tofu-slawdog. Okay, so no kosher dogs for this Tuesday. I say get some that are stuffed with the "other white meat". MMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, pig. - Dave P.S. Just ate at the Dunsmuir Hotel Restaurant tonight - The fish and chips were OUTSTANDING - the batter would make an Englishman proud. Wow! They've just opened and very little advertising so far means the dining room is nearly empty - Don't let that fool ya'. Good looking selection of burgers on the menu and chef Cindy(she of the heavenly cinnamon rolls from days gone by at the ole' Gandy Dancer)promises some Cuban/Jerk style cooking is coming soon.
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Rumour has it that a certain real estate appraiser living in the North State has a Fed Ex package arriving from Tennessee this coming Tuesday afternoon. The suspense is building.
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