Who calls hot dogs "tube steaks" (OK, apart from Mitt)?



If you have ever heard this term used to describe any kind of sausage, or sausage-like edibles, please email me.

It may just be that having grown up in extra liberal Seattle, where we don't even really eat hot dogs (OK, we eat tofu dogs, not the same thing, though) and then having moved back to the land of fried Mars Bars and Haggis, I've just never heard the term.

But somehow, I doubt it...

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Yes, yes, we've all heard about Hillary and Mr. Hsu, but what about this fundraiser of Romney's?

While I hate to quote sites like Crooks and Liars, I will agree with their assertion that relatively little was said about this particular bit of drama.

Fine team Romney seems to have assembled. There's Robert Lichfield, this Fabian chap, Bruce Benson (who evidently said he wanted to kill his wife back in the day), and so on and so forth.

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From an alert reader, who knows more about Massachusetts culinaria than I:

In certain parts of Massachusetts the term Tube Steaks is commonly used to denote hot dogs. That is because a famous hot dog stand, Joe and Nemo's, was located next door to the underground which is usually called the tube here in Boston. So people would say "I'm going to the tube to get one of those steaks at Joe and Nemo's." Of course, all they sold were hot dogs so that is how the name became popular in certain Boston neighborhoods.

Apparently, Massachusetts has something of a habit of calling common foods by unusual names.

In any event, I guess I owe Mitt Romney for any insinuation that there was something wrong with the terminology he applied to hot dogs.

Of course, the fact that he is calling them by a Bostonian nickname may not endear him to people who hate all things Massachusetts (Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, the Red Sox, or, you know, whatever).

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