From the Score's website:

Congratulations to Fredhots and Fries in Glenview. They have won a LIVE
BROADCAST with The Mike North Morning Show on Wednesday, December 13th from 6am-10am. That's not all! Fredhots and Fries will also host a Vienna Beef Pups Eating Contest, and Mike North, himself, will also be serving up some Pups! See ya there!

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Mike North himself, that's right, Mike North himself will be serving the Pups!

What a great award for Fredhots and Fries!

How convenient! A hot dog joint in the NW suburbs wins a remote hosted by a hot dog guy who lives nearby in the NW suburbs - what a coincidence!!!
fRedhots and Fries, 1707 Chestnut Ave., Glenview, 847-657-9200
Though the name seems a bit bizarre, it all makes sense when you find out this hot-dog joint is owned by Fred Markoff. fRedhots and Fries offers a traditional selection of hot dogs and burgers along with more exotic items like Belgian fries with spicy-citrus or caramelized-onion dipping sauce and wild-game sausages including venison, gator and boar. The menu also has some healthier options, such as rotating selection of seasonal grilled veggies -- eggplant and asparagus, to name a few -- on a honey wheat roll. Still, the most shocking thing on the menu may be the option to add ketchup to a Chicago-style dog.
Hours: 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday

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Brilliant planning by the promotional department on this one. Do they not realize this is a morning show? I don't know about you people, but two of the last things I want to see at 7am are Mike North's face and a bunch of people frantically stuffing themselves with midget hot-dogs.

Good catch. The remotes the north show has attempted have been train wrecks does anyone remember north oversleeping in Vegas and missing the start of his own show? Did anne really say that global warming makes tsunami's worse? When the ancient Pat Summerall is the highlight of the show you've got problems.

And me? I don't think of a hot dog place that early in the morning,
I usually think of - oh, I don't know - maybe a breakfast place, but maybe that's just me.

Rudolph steps up to plate
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1676 ... 11.article)

December 11, 2006

BY JANET RAUSA FULLER Staff Reporter
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose -- and a coat of mustard and grilled onions.

That's the gist of a menu special being offered through December at fRedhots and Fries, a hot dog stand in Glenview -- a reindeer hot dog dressed the way Alaskans like it, in a poppyseed bun the way Chicagoans like it.

FRedhots owner Fred Markoff, 49, first tasted a reindeer hot dog in 2003 while skiing in Anchorage and decided he should serve it at his stand, which opened in October. Markoff also sells a smoked alligator and pork sausage and a buffalo bratwurst with pomegranate-infused sauerkraut. He is awaiting a shipment of caribou sausage patties, for a possible hoagie special.

"When you think about it, meat is meat, and it gets its flavor from its seasoning," he said.


Other meats included
The reindeer dog, which costs $8, is made by Indian Valley Meats of Indian, Alaska.
It's actually a blend of reindeer meat, beef and pork. Because reindeer meat is so lean, it needs fat to add flavor. An all-reindeer hot dog would just taste like "rubber," said Cathy Drum, whose family owns Indian Valley Meats.

The company had to reduce the amount of reindeer meat in its sausages a few years ago "because people were calling, complaining they were too rubbery," she said.

Barry Soskin, 49, a fRedhots customer who sampled a reindeer dog Friday, found the texture "tougher" than a regular red-hot but liked the flavor.

"Is it worth $8? . . . Well, I paid 10 bucks for a hamburger once that I didn't think was worth 10 bucks," said Soskin, who ate the $9 alligator sausage on a previous trip to fRedhots.


Inescapable comparison
Reindeer and caribou are the same animal, but reindeer are domesticated while caribou are wild, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Native to Siberia and Scandinavia, reindeer were introduced to Alaska in the late 19th century.
Because there's no way of getting around the reference to the beloved creature from the 1964 animated TV special, Markoff said he might stick a grape tomato and some frisee on one end of a reindeer dog for a store display.

"But the kids might not be happy with me if I do that," he said.

jfuller@suntimes.com