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Let the local bakeries make your BREAD
Let the best eateries keep you FED
Wait for your soul mate before you WED
But don't get hot dogs from anyone but TED
Let your garage give you tires with good TREAD
Let your fave futbol team play in RED
Let your moody teenagers have street CRED
But don't get hot dogs from anyone but TED
Let our foreign policy fill you with DREAD
Let the fascists move somewhere else INSTEAD
Let your Yelp photo likes go to your HEAD
But don't get hot dogs from anyone but TED
Let my girl tell you where to get a Mani PED
Let that dude Fox come share your BED
Don't let anyone else give you HEAD
And don't get hot dogs from anyone but TED
What to get: Polish, regular Hot Dog, Chocolate Malt, Loganberry
What not to get: iPhone, iPad, Kindle, or Blackberry
Ted's is quintessential Buffalo, and to truly sample the range of specialty local foods that Buffalo offers, you need to come here and try a hot dog and a Polish.
The Polish is the star of the show. They are absolutely delicious and thick and juicy, and when that hot gooey mess squirts all over the inside of your mouth you will think you're in heaven.
Yes I am still talking about Ted's Hot Dogs.
Did you know that they now have one location outside Western New York? It's down in Arizona. In Tempe. I've been to it. I guess I'm the sucker. It was so weird eating these in 110 degrees. But better than eating 98 Degrees. Jessica Simpson told me how bad that can be.
They do a "free hot dog for veterans" around Memorial Day. Not a fan. And hey, Ted's started it. They got political and yes, it is political. So I can respond politically and I'll try and be diplomatic instead of idiotic, if you respond, perhaps try the same. Don't be outraged - follow my logic a second. It's called debate and discourse. It's what a "free country" does.
So... Firemen don't have a free hot dog day, they run into burning buildings for us for a pittance. Cops don't (but probably will at some point, because there's now massive propaganda to say these militarized cops shooting unarmed people are actually the victims, thanks Tom Selleck). Charity workers, such as doctors without borders, or international journalists in conflict areas, who all risk their lives and health daily, don't have a free hot dog day at Ted's. Nor a massive campaign for everyone to support them and back them and keep their mouths shut if they have anything negative to say. Well, not I.
As a pacifist I interpret "support our troops" and "free hot dogs for veterans" as supporting war and violence. I believe in taking care of veterans the same way we take care of everyone. Free healthcare, free education, a basic decent standard of life for all. We don't have that. Not for veterans, not for millions. So the richest country in the world can't afford that, but we can afford to spend more on the military than every other country *combined*. Hmm.
I don't blame the people that go to war (directly) for war, but I do think the entire thing is propaganda, and our government is not interested in protecting us, but colonizing the world, taking its money and resources, controlling it, and keeping us in fear of imaginary, manufactured enemies. So it always bothers me when a place like Ted's buys into that so loudly, plastering the "support our troops" jingoism all over their place, and basically doing the government's war propaganda for them, for free.
Anyway. I can put aside politics and give 5 stars for great Polish dogs and friendly (sometimes) teenybopper service. I put politics aside all the time. How would you survive in this country otherwise. You'd walk around angry all the time. Oh wait, that's what a lot of us do. OK.
But yeah, come and try one. They're yumsical. Lines can get long and they do not take phone orders, but they do serve right up until closing time and I appreciate that. You can't have everything. Unless you date me of course.