preview review
taken the 29th or 30th.. more info forthcoming as i currently have a 1.625 year old directly beneath my chair.
EDIT: apologies for being egregiously late in updating this post.. real life getting the way of bloggering again. but HOLY LORDY OF.. ALL THAT IS HOLY. THE FRANCHEESIE. it briefly passed my radar perusing Maxfield's too-deep-for-its-own-good menu awhile back.. not knowing what it was [and not feeling adventurous: breakfast for lunch that day], i filed the odd name in my memory to be revisited. and then i read this review from chicagofoodies:
it being a Chicago-based food oddity, and me being hungry as hell and a glutton[!] for punishment, i *had* to try it at least once. first bite: OMGHOT- the other reviewer was right; i mean, who in their right mind would take as big a bite i did from a fresh-out-of-the-DEEP-FRYER hot dog.. oh did i forget to mention? jumbo dog, split and cheese stuffed, wrapped in bacon, and deep-fried. it gave the dog that crusty outside you get on just-too-done grilled dogs, but all. over.
i'm salivating again as i write this.
alas, it wasn't the perfect meal: there wasn't nearly as much cheese as i was expecting; a portion of the cheese fused half the bun to the dog, and the remainder was in 2 small pools at the beginning and end of the beast.. maybe a couple seconds less in the fryolator wouldve saved some. and the overall experience.. well like the review said: it gets completely overwhelming. at first i tried his suggestion and alternated each bite with heaps of fries.. but around halfway through, the sodium content of the the entire meal hit me like a brick wall: my water was half gone in an instant, and i was eating whole leaves of lettuce to help each bite along.. literally wrapping the last of it with lettuce to finish it off.
oh and there was coleslaw. yep.
so yeah: it was.. an experience. good food taken to the nth level. a meal perhaps to be repeated some day. far, far off in the future. maybe if i find myself at the Cabmridge House.
EDIT: apologies for being egregiously late in updating this post.. real life getting the way of bloggering again. but HOLY LORDY OF.. ALL THAT IS HOLY. THE FRANCHEESIE. it briefly passed my radar perusing Maxfield's too-deep-for-its-own-good menu awhile back.. not knowing what it was [and not feeling adventurous: breakfast for lunch that day], i filed the odd name in my memory to be revisited. and then i read this review from chicagofoodies:
If we ever start banning food for health reasons the Francheezie will be the first to go. It's a hot dog stuffed with cheeze and wrapped in bacon...
it being a Chicago-based food oddity, and me being hungry as hell and a glutton[!] for punishment, i *had* to try it at least once. first bite: OMGHOT- the other reviewer was right; i mean, who in their right mind would take as big a bite i did from a fresh-out-of-the-DEEP-FRYER hot dog.. oh did i forget to mention? jumbo dog, split and cheese stuffed, wrapped in bacon, and deep-fried. it gave the dog that crusty outside you get on just-too-done grilled dogs, but all. over.
i'm salivating again as i write this.
alas, it wasn't the perfect meal: there wasn't nearly as much cheese as i was expecting; a portion of the cheese fused half the bun to the dog, and the remainder was in 2 small pools at the beginning and end of the beast.. maybe a couple seconds less in the fryolator wouldve saved some. and the overall experience.. well like the review said: it gets completely overwhelming. at first i tried his suggestion and alternated each bite with heaps of fries.. but around halfway through, the sodium content of the the entire meal hit me like a brick wall: my water was half gone in an instant, and i was eating whole leaves of lettuce to help each bite along.. literally wrapping the last of it with lettuce to finish it off.
oh and there was coleslaw. yep.
so yeah: it was.. an experience. good food taken to the nth level. a meal perhaps to be repeated some day. far, far off in the future. maybe if i find myself at the Cabmridge House.
posted by Jas | 10:50 AM
2 Comments:
so its been a week. blog it already.
so that's what that is! drag me to a francheezie next time plz!
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