I know it’s been a few weeks since the last episode, and it’s almost a month since I bought what I bought, which is a Where’s Waldo Calendar.

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I went to Nelson Cheese Factory again in Eau Claire, WI & bought Cheese ‘N’ Salami, yay!

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I love hot dogs (or the way I say IT: hut dogs), but not just any kind of hot dogs. I love the hot dogs that used to be 3 for $1 rotisserie style hot dogs from Kwik Trip gas stations in WI.  I loved these hot dogs and once I moved to Minnesota, the only times I would have them would be on road trips. There are Kwik Trips in Minnesota, but IT’s not the same and they’re not close to where I live. During my Indy Pro-Wrestling days, I had created an urban legend with my obsession with Mtn Dew and the Kwik Trip Hot Dogs. The only thing about the urban legend stories, were the fact they were real.

I didn’t start eating the Kwik Trip hot dogs until 1999 when a friend showed me the “rock star breakfast/lunch/dinner.” I would eat them as often as I would eat Taco John’s while still living in Wisconsin.  The hot dogs were just regular Oscar Mayer wieners that Kwik Trip sold in their store.  What drew me to them? I don’t know, but I had to have them any time I would go to a Kwik Trip. IT was my obsession at the time and I don’t even know if the word obsession is a strong enough word to  describe my need to have them.

I moved to Minnesota in 2000 and that was also the same time I was involved with an Indy Pro-Wrestling federation that did the majority of their shows in Wisconsin and many of them were in my hometown of Eau Claire. So, I would be traveling around Wisconsin at least two or three times a month and every weekend I would have Kwik Trip hot dogs.  In fact, I’ve eaten at almost every Kwik Trip that Eau Claire and surrounding cities had. Even to this day, if a new Kwik Trip opens, I have to have the hot dogs, no if, ands or buts!

I made it part of my Weird Cookie (my wrestling name) gimmick, which wasn’t a gimmick at all. I have a LiveJournal that I would update throughout the week in between school and the wrestling shows. I would talk about the stupid road trip stories that Horace the Psychopath, Rain and I would have and the trips to Kwik Trip. And it never was just hot dogs alone, there would be the Mtn Dew that would be talked about, too.

I don’t know what kind of influence I had, but I had instant messages from fans turned friends that said they had Kwik Trip hot dogs for dinner, including a Mtn Dew to drink. IT would be one thing for them to have it for dinner, but they felt the need to tell me.

This was also the time my metabolism was going crazy! There was one weekend I had to stop at my parent’s house and pick something up. For whatever reason, I raided the fridge out of habit and they had an almost whole pizza and they let me take it.  From my parents place, we drove to the nearest Kwik Trip that was 5 min away. By the time we parked, I ate half of what was left of the pizza when I got it.  We went in to the Kwik Trip, purchased my hot dogs and some junk food and waited for the others to pay.  When I made it to the car, I hit up the trash can to throw away the hot dog tray gimmick. I ate all the hot dogs while waiting.   After that, finished the rest of the pizza, my junk food and I was still hungry.

Recently, I met up with my family at a Kwik Trip in between Minneapolis and Eau Claire.  After my dad gave me whatever I needed to pick up from him, I had to run inside to use the bathroom. Not sure why, but he and my sister waited until I came back out to leave. During that time, my dad turned to my sister and asked if I was buying hot dogs.  She said, probably.  Sure enough, I walked out with my 3 for now $1.39 Kwik Trip hot dogs. I can’t NOT do IT. IT’s not a gimmick, IT’s real.

I love my Kwik Trip hot dogs, no matter what the price, I’ll get my hot dogs even though I have been slacking and either getting chicken and Swiss cheese sandwiches or just the jumbo dog, but rarely will I get hot dogs from any other gas station, because IT’s not the same to me. I need them from Kwik Trip or I won’t get them.

This is the 1st blog post in a series of 4 where I talk about my love for sushi, Taco John’s, Mtn Dew and hot dogs.

I’ve been eating sushi (or sooshi fish (video below)) for almost seven years and I see no signs of not eating it anytime soon. IT happened during a huge winter storm, which fell on a Friday night March/April of 2002. I went to hang out with one of my best friends and ex-roommate, Bonnie/Rain, because we didn’t have any indy pro-wrestling gigs that weekend. We were too lazy to cook, or didn’t know how to cook, and took a trip over to Byerly’s, an expensive grocery store.

It was after the in-store sushi chefs had left, but their remaining sushi caught my eye. No idea what kind I had, but I picked up some to try and also gross out Bonnie because she hates fish of any kind. I must have liked IT, because I’m still eating sushi today.

I don’t know when I started eating sushi on a regular basis. IT could have been later that year once I moved in, or IT could have been when I started my current job in 2003. Regardless of when it was, I was pretty much hooked, just like those fish, so the pun was intended. I knew there were sushi restaurants around me, but I was too nervous to try anything better than grocery stores.

Don’t get me wrong, Byerly’s sushi is decent, but IT’s the fast food version of sushi. Before I mention the few sushi joints I’ve eaten at, a funny story about getting sushi from Byerly’s. I try and eat sushi every other week while at work. Other than I like eating IT, I love grossing out my co-workers who hate raw fish or fish in general.

There was a Friday I needed to leave work early and picked up sushi earlier in the day. This prepared sushi meal was one I had never seen before. Included in my sushi container was an octopus tentacle. YES, full, not sliced and placed on the sushi itself octopus tentacle. Before I swallowed that thing down, and I wish I had picture of this, but I had it sticking out my mouth like IT was my tongue. Trust me IT was funny, but I paid the price on the way to Wisconsin. Before you ask, no, I didn’t throw up. When eating it I could feel the suckers in my throat as I swallowed it, but that wasn’t the gross part to me. The gross part was having my stomach feel like a science experiment with vegetable oil and water. My stomach was the 2-liter container for that experiment.

I’ve also gotten my friends hooked (is there any other way to say it without a pun?) on sushi. Where I have gotten most of them hooked would be Ichiban: Minneapolis. Ichiban’s is known for their all you can eat sushi (for an hour). They have these cool little boats that go around in the circle and the sushi chefs are in the middle of the oval seating area. The chefs are always making crab cake appetizers, seaweed salad, edamame, sushi rolls, tempura and sashimi. They ask if you would like any rolls/sashimi if you do not see them floating around. The chefs engage in conversation, are funny and you can watch them make your food upside down, due to the mirrors on the ceiling above them.

One other great thing about eating at Ichiban with me at their all you can eat sushi fish is watching me eat for that hour. I tend to go overboard, trying everything, never stopping to breath other than to drink water and count how many plates I’ve put away. My eyes bug out of my head, I start to get chipmunk cheeks as I see something come around on the cool boat that I need, or want, to try.

And now, for a video of Brandon Dicamillo of CKY/Viva La Bam trying to get people to come to Kooma in West Chester, Pennsylvania, for their lunch time special and the place “where kids eat free…!”

I didn’t buy anything for this episode (got it for free w/Amazon’s Free Android App of the day), but I did buy Park Place in Monopoly. I wanted to show how to buy Boardwalk for less!

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I went to Canada over Christmas and bought a hoodie that says CANADA (I’m using capital letters in case people can’t read). I also bought some Oreos.

What I didn’t show is Canadian Mtn Dew that lacks caffeine!

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I was in Eau Claire, WI, over the weekend and I stopped at Nelson Cheese Factory. When you’re born and raised in WI, you only eat the best cheese… WI cheese!

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I picked up my new glasses from Spectacle Shoppe in New Brighton, MN. They have thousands of frames to choose from, including those Back To The Future 2 glasses from Pizza Hut! Maybe next year I’ll get those!

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I haven’t been out buying much for the last week, but I did buy these mushrooms. I ate some of the them earlier this week.

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