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Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a hot dog? Yes, 955 of them of them to be exact. In honor of the landmark American Coney Island restaurant’s 95th anniversary, the restaurant teamed up with Detroit station 95.5 to host a hot-dog hoarding contest at Detroit’s Hype Athletics Facility Wednesday morning.
According to American Coney Island Restaurant owner Grace Keros, 955 hot dogs weigh about 140 lbs. That’s 140 lbs of processed meat. Or as Seros affectionately corrects, “hundreds of specialty seasoned Coney Dogs.”
Who couldn’t pass that up?
About 100 Coney-aficionados flocked to the open field that the restaurant had rented to participate in a stuffing contest. Twenty-five of them then rushed around the field trying to stuff as many of the hot dogs on their person as they could in 95 seconds, stuffing them in their pockets, shirts, and who knows what other orifices.
The winner carried away $1,000 and American Coneys for a year.
“It was certainly a sight to see, ” said Keros.
Keros is a third-generation owner and the first woman to ever own the popular restaurant. It was opened by her grandfather, Gus “Constantine” Keros, a Greek immigrant, in 1917. The chain sells thousands of hot dogs each year, according to Keros.
As part of the 95th anniversary, customers can buy their Coneys at a discounted price, for only 95 cents from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
And as for all those dropped Coneys, never fear. All the hot dogs will go to the Detroit Dog Rescue Organization.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.[/quote]
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/05/helicopter-dumps-hot-dogs-over-detroit/[/url]
isnt there like a homeless problem in detroit
[editline]23rd May 2012[/editline]
im seeing a lot of better uses for a thousand hot dogs than throwing them out of a helichopter.
[QUOTE=Cmx;36073706]95.5 is the shittiest god damn station...[/QUOTE]
doug fm is the best because they play EVERYTHING (not really everything but still great)
101.1 wrif is what i usually listen to
The headline had me expecting to read that the UN started performing food drops over Detroit.
Sausage fest
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;36074001]The headline had me expecting to read that the UN started performing food drops over Detroit.[/QUOTE]
wouldnt surprise me
[QUOTE=Lankist;36073715]isnt there like a homeless problem in detroit
[editline]23rd May 2012[/editline]
im seeing a lot of better uses for a thousand hot dogs than throwing them out of a helichopter.[/QUOTE]
fuck homeless people most of the time it's self inflicted, even in a shithole like detroit
[QUOTE=Alternativ;36074208]fuck homeless people most of the time it's self inflicted, even in a shithole like detroit[/QUOTE]
too young for a job man im 14 lolololololol and i worded it wrong a bit what i meant to say was my mom gives me money to buy food and i save the rest of it and buy weed
I all the women there were used to taking hotdogs to the face, this is nothing new.
[QUOTE=Alternativ;36074208]fuck homeless people most of the time it's self inflicted, even in a shithole like detroit[/QUOTE]
xDD fuck the homless I'LL BUY WEED AND SMOKE A JOINT IN FRUNT OF THEM XDDD
[QUOTE=Lankist;36073715]isnt there like a homeless problem in detroit
[editline]23rd May 2012[/editline]
im seeing a lot of better uses for a thousand hot dogs than throwing them out of a helichopter.[/QUOTE]
I don't like this attitude.
We are forever forbidden from dropping hundreds of pounds of usable food over shitholes because the persons in said shitholes could use it. It sounds bad but really that philosophy could be used to apply to anything- criticizing me for buying an LEDTV when Africa could use my money more. Can't we have our enjoyment without guilt?
[QUOTE=Cmx;36073706]95.5 is the shittiest god damn station...[/QUOTE]
Its talk radio where I am.
Want a good laugh? Listen to Neal Bortts. Jesus christ what a crazy fucking maniac.
[editline]24th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36074297]I don't like this attitude.
We are forever forbidden from dropping hundreds of pounds of usable food over shitholes because the persons in said shitholes could use it. It sounds bad but really that philosophy could be used to apply to anything- criticizing me for buying an LEDTV when Africa could use my money more. Can't we have our enjoyment without guilt?[/QUOTE]
"Dude, dudedudedudedude. I know how we can celebrate it this year!"
'Okay, shoot'
"We take hot dogs... and throw them from a helicopter. :v:"
'Thats fucking geni- wait, aren't there homeless people here?'
"Wha- Oh yeah... damn. Guess we aren't allowed to then, Lankist wouldn't be all that happy about it would he? :/"
'I'll get the soup kitchen aprons...'
[QUOTE=The First 11'er;36074271]xDD fuck the homless I'LL BUY WEED AND SMOKE A JOINT IN FRUNT OF THEM XDDD[/QUOTE]
they have me beat with their stolen crackpipes
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36074297]I don't like this attitude.
We are forever forbidden from dropping hundreds of pounds of usable food over shitholes because the persons in said shitholes could use it. It sounds bad but really that philosophy could be used to apply to anything- criticizing me for buying an LEDTV when Africa could use my money more. Can't we have our enjoyment without guilt?[/QUOTE]
there's a difference between buying a tv and wasting food in a place where so many go hungry!! maybe they should have put the hotdogs in plastic or some shit so they could be opened and eaten? that way everyones happy!
I like how America of all places manages to have problems feeding people, and they consume the largest amount of resources per person
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36074297]I don't like this attitude.
We are forever forbidden from dropping hundreds of pounds of usable food over shitholes because the persons in said shitholes could use it. It sounds bad but really that philosophy could be used to apply to anything- criticizing me for buying an LEDTV when Africa could use my money more. Can't we have our enjoyment without guilt?[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying you should call the phallic food police, I'm saying it's a bit shameful.
This is like that Facepunchers fantasy where someone's locked in a room and hot dogs are shot at him with regular intervals so that the room slowly fills up with hot dogs faster then he can eat them.
People are starving in my third world home country. Kids huffing shoe glue in order to forget their pangs of hunger
The USA truly is a rich place. Throwing hotdogs into the air like it were toys what a waste. What a terrible PR stunt
Oh, shut up about the food problems in some country somewhere. Go take a look at your local supermarket's statistics for them throwing out food that doesn't get bought.
Seriously. TONNES of perfectly good canned foods as well as other easily ration-able materials are sent straight to the dump every month rather than packed up and sent off to people who need it. Stuff that hasn't even gone off yet. THAT is something to bitch about.
88.7
Gotta get my chuck and dave in the morning. Rip cord!
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;36075571]Oh, shut up about the food problems in some country somewhere. Go take a look at your local supermarket's statistics for them throwing out food that doesn't get bought.
Seriously. TONNES of perfectly good canned foods as well as other easily ration-able materials are sent straight to the dump every month rather than packed up and sent off to people who need it. Stuff that hasn't even gone off yet. THAT is something to bitch about.[/QUOTE]
But you see, it adds to my point: USA truly is a rich place. The fact that this country can generate so much consumer food products and retail them for bottom prices is insane, unheard of in other parts of the world outside our backyard.
A roast chicken you pay no mind to at the supermarket costs an equivalent $100-200 bucks in Asia. We take it for granted here. You better believe my family and I ate everything up when we first started our lives here
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36074994]People are starving in my third world home country. Kids huffing shoe glue in order to forget their pangs of hunger
The USA truly is a rich place. Throwing hotdogs into the air like it were toys what a waste. What a terrible PR stunt[/QUOTE]
Someone had better call the fun police!
I mean seriously, who the hell cares? We have a shitload of charities that you can donate to and the government gives out aid to plenty of third world countries, 955 hotdogs in the grand scheme of things really isnt all that much.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;36075718]Someone had better call the fun police!
I mean seriously, who the hell cares? We have a shitload of charities that you can donate to and the government gives out aid to plenty of third world countries, 955 hotdogs in the grand scheme of things really isnt all that much.[/QUOTE]
A bunch of them probably fell on some homeless dudes so whatever.
[QUOTE=Lankist;36073715]isnt there like a homeless problem in detroit
[editline]23rd May 2012[/editline]
im seeing a lot of better uses for a thousand hot dogs than throwing them out of a helichopter.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36074297]I don't like this attitude.
We are forever forbidden from dropping hundreds of pounds of usable food over shitholes because the persons in said shitholes could use it. It sounds bad but really that philosophy could be used to apply to anything- criticizing me for buying an LEDTV when Africa could use my money more. Can't we have our enjoyment without guilt?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;36074789]there's a difference between buying a tv and wasting food in a place where so many go hungry!! maybe they should have put the hotdogs in plastic or some shit so they could be opened and eaten? that way everyones happy![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36074994]People are starving in my third world home country. Kids huffing shoe glue in order to forget their pangs of hunger
The USA truly is a rich place. Throwing hotdogs into the air like it were toys what a waste. What a terrible PR stunt[/QUOTE]
Have none of you read through to the end of the article? Right at the end, it says all the hot dogs were donated to feed dogs. They weren't wasted, and there's even a pun to attract Sensationalist Headline's attention.
[quote]And as for all those dropped Coneys, never fear. All the hot dogs will go to the Detroit Dog Rescue Organization.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.[/quote]
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