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The Only Cold I Feel Is In My Mouth.

December 30th,
2010 and it was in the high 50s – which to me is an altogether
foreign experience to not have to wear a coat outside in the last
month of the year. So my wife and I ventured out into the
unreasonably warm and wet city to dodge the people who can’t drive
in the rain (all of them) and who don’t pay attention (most of
them) and eat delicious food.

Basically this whole post is
just a set up for me to show a picture of the scrumptious gelato
offerings at Za-Za pizza and salad in the Heights neighborhood in
Little Rock. I’d been there before-the wife hadn’t. She got the
tandoori chicken salad, I got the Santa fe (loaded with black beans
and caaaaarn) and we both got broccoli and cheese soup and it was
all delicious, but it was all a precursor to the gelato. We stared
at the case, making a Sophie’s Choice level decision on which of
these icy marvels would pass through our lips.

Moments later, sitting in my car, shame eating
the hell out of some gelato we agreed that we’d both made a wise
decision.

The choices were: Pistachio,
strawberry/banana yogurt, chocolate mint, dulce de leche, tiramisu,
cookies and creme.

Which one would you have
picked? Reply in the comments!

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Hot Dog Mike

Had an interesting encounter downtown today. Those of you that I’m friends with in bigger cities won’t think this is a big deal, but as a kind of sprawled out city, you don’t see a lot of street vendors here in Little Rock.  Sure, there’s random Taco trucks, but not downtown. So what’s there to get for grub if you like your food from a rolling cart? Enter Hot Dog Mike – a photographer turned Hot Dog slinger. My buddy Casey had told me about him, having seen him on Twitter, and then I saw him in the Arkansas Times and decided we had to go get a dog the next time he was Downtown.

Today was the day, Twitter announced: ” @HotDog_Mike: I’m here! Downtown: take 7th towatds main. I’m on the right just before past Louisianna(mk RT in drive) http://bit.ly/dls4Ln

In what only a tame, awkward shut-in might call an adventure, we drove around Downtown attempting to locate the sole Hot Dog cart, and after almost giving up and going the Bar-B-Q route, we saw him off of 7th and Louisiana between the Arkansas DHS building and the AT&T building, in the alley, serving ‘em up.

He’s a cool guy and he deftly deflected a lady saying that his “Italian Dog” should be called the “Dago Dog” with a understated “Naaaaaaah.” which got laughs from myself and my fellow dog fans.

Anyway, Hot Dog Mike is awesome. I had two Sriracha Dogs (or as Hotdog_mike says: “Sriracha Dog w/diced sweet onion & cucumber SPICY COOL GOODNESS”) with cucumber, onions and a line of Mayo to cool it off for $4. I brought a Diet Mountain Dew with me (because I’m addicted and have issues), but he’s got several different kinds of drinks and some chips, too if you’re not a well prepared world renowned male model like myself.

SYNOPSIS: Good food, A Where’s Waldo adventure, Fun service and it’s cheap. What’s not to like?

You can find out where Hot Dog Mike is at any given time here: http://www.twitter.com/hotdog_mike