Visit #5 - June 21st, 2014

While I've often eaten at Hot Doug's on my own, there's nothing like sharing the experience of high quality encased meats with others.  This visit, when myself and fifteen or sixteen others descended on Hot Doug's on a mild June 20th, was pretty fantastic.

All of us were in town as we were all attending (and in some cases, performing) during the PRF BBQ*.  The PRF BBQ was a five day, multi-venue blowout of music, food and good times which you can read more about here.  Since there were a bunch of folks who came in from out of town for this gathering, it was decided early on that a bunch of us would make a visit to Hot Doug's, especially considering that this would be the last PRF BBQ held in Chicago while Doug's was still open. 

So Friday morning, groggy and already sore from two nights of music in some cases (and gearing up for three more), we made our descent onto Doug's.  We got there early and waited because that's what you do.  Pink Noises got little time out this time around as introductions were made and there was general catching up happening.  Before I knew it, I was in Doug's, pushing tables together (after we all ordered, of course), trying to accommodate some 15 people from all over the world, and I mean it!  Folks from Toronto, British Columbia, Australia, England (even though Sam didn't find us in line - sorry Sam!), Pittsburgh, Michigan, Colorado, Seattle and more places that I can't remember right now because this was over a month ago and, c'mon, I'm trying here!

 Sausages.  Missing are the other sausages other people ate.

So all of us chooches, together at a table, eating sausage after sausage, totally content.  After we finished, some folks took a tour of Electrical Audio, a recording studio who've developed a long-lasting friendly relationship with Hot Doug's over the years.  Other folks and myself split to start moving gear for the BBQ. 

As we were moving gear, we drove back by Doug's around 12pm or so and noticed the huge line.  It also happened that Chris had put an extra corn dog in his pocket, so naturally, I took a picture of him eating the extra corn dog while driving his van in front of Doug's.  I like to think of it as our version of the Double Nickels on the Dime cover...

Here's the tally:
Wild rice and bison sausage, chicken chorizo sausage, corn dog and fries.  I can't remember everything that came on them, nor can I remember what the other dozen+ folks got as well.  So it goes...

*Read D.J. Hostettler's excellent post about the PRF BBQ here!