Guess the Restaurant #372

A hint for you is- what you are not seeing may be crucial.
I'll give this more time. But what I inferred is that while this is a hot dog, perhaps it is not what the restaurant is more well known for.

LOL - gotta be Gene & Judes, then.

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...or Red Hot Ranch, or Rand Red Hots.

Buddy

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:...or Red Hot Ranch, or Rand Red Hots.

Buddy

Well, those 2 places will at least give you ketchup, so based on the clue, I figured G&J.

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Well observed, Sherlock. I figured what we were not seeing was the Hot Dog itself; completely smothered in Fries. The missing ketchup was much less obvious. Plus, the ketchup angle never occurred to me because I never would have expected to see ketchup in the first place, because WHAT KIND OF MONSTER (over the age of ten) PUTS KETCHUP ON A HOT DOG???

Buddy

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:. . . The missing ketchup was much less obvious. Plus, the ketchup angle never occurred to me because I never would have expected to see ketchup in the first place, because WHAT KIND OF MONSTER (over the age of ten) PUTS KETCHUP ON A HOT DOG???

Buddy

LOL! I completely agree!

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Jimmy’s Red Hots.
Pulaski and Grand.
(No poppy seeds)

G Wiv wrote:Jimmy’s Red Hots.
Pulaski and Grand.
(No poppy seeds)

Dayum!

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G Wiv wrote:Jimmy’s Red Hots.
Pulaski and Grand.
(No poppy seeds)

Smart. The idea of ketchup being the missing visual didn't make a lot of sense since the hot dog itself is blocked and nowhere would serve it directly with ketchup on the fries. Also a location that's in the path of pudgym's bus routes and soda trips.

ronnie_suburban wrote:LOL - gotta be Gene & Judes, then.

Close! I'd say that's a red hot from Gene's & Jude's. I like to use the names on the building, and you prefer the street sign version (Gene & Jude's Hot Dogs).

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:...or Red Hot Ranch, or Rand Red Hots.

Gene's & Jude's has speckled white formica counters, like in the upper left of the photo in the first post. I don't think RHR or RRH have similar counters.

G Wiv wrote:Jimmy’s Red Hots.
Pulaski and Grand.
(No poppy seeds)

Gene's & Jude's uses seedless buns too. The fries don't quite look like Jimmy's: too long and lightly cooked. Jimmy's usually serves a dark gnarly tangle with plenty of crispy nubs. The counter doesn't look right either.

Rene G wrote:The counter doesn't look right either.

Here’s a pic from Jimmy’s random bag and all. Seems to be the counters pretty close. I guess we’ll have to wait for a verdict from Mr. Pudge.

By the way, for the eagle eyed among you. That’s not ketchup (lower right) it is hot sauce.

It is time to answer the query #372.

It was Gene's and Jude's Red Hot Stand.

I was being a little obscure because if you had put on your "Baker Street Irregulars" hat and were exploring the route I motored on the day when the image was snapped (removing the metadata does not affect when the image was taken), you might have deduced I drove on Fullerton, Grand, Harlem, and North Avenues.
My inference that what you were not seeing was a clue as to where it was was to make you ponder it was a hot dog from a stand more famous for its italian beef sandwich, and if I had taken a photo of the italian beef sandwich, you would have gotten the answer swiftly. There were a lot of those on the route. Quite a number of them are actually in the Vienna Beef Hall of Fame, which Vienna Beef does not deal out widely.

pudgym29 wrote:My inference that what you were not seeing was a clue as to where it was was to make you ponder it was a hot dog from a stand more famous for its italian beef sandwich, and if I had taken a photo of the italian beef sandwich, you would have gotten the answer swiftly.

This would have been a "clue" if it was actually a hot dog from one of those Italian beef places. Since it wasn't, it was a red herring to deceive us.

Pudgy,

Thank you. I learned a valuable life lesson from this thread. Never disagree with Ronnie suburban or, maybe especially, Rene G.

Sincerely,
G Wiv