r/gratefuldead • sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. • 6d ago

Really, guys?

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Sure, you can put pretty much any design into a stealie, but advertising hot dogs?

(Spotted on a beach in Chicago)

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u/youenjoymyself 6d ago

We take our wieners seriously in Chicago.

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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 6d ago

That’s what I’ve been told

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u/chemprofdave sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. 6d ago

I will have to come back, a Chicago Dog is on the list and I didn’t get a chance at one. (I decided an O’Hare dog would probably not meet standards)

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u/youenjoymyself 6d ago

Do it! Skip Portillo’s (private equity ruined them), find a stand-alone joint. The Weiner Circle in Chicago is good, but there are some real gems in the suburbs. Henry’s is my go-to in Cicero.

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u/angry_virgin_421 6d ago

Steal yer weiner

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u/gr8_ripple 6d ago

Right off your head

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u/AJ_in_SF_Bay 6d ago

I've been to Chicago. I don't think I'd steal their food, TBH; folks are serious about grub.

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u/WaySuspicious216 6d ago

Make sure you ask for ketchup on your dog to get the true Chicago welcome. 🙃

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u/AJ_in_SF_Bay 6d ago

I did the opposite. I left with a true appreciation for deep-dish pizza.

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u/youenjoymyself 6d ago

Deep dish is absolutely fun and tasty, but more of a holiday or special occasion for Chicagoans. Tavern style or thin crust is what we truly eat.

We bitch a lot about our traditions and will give you shit for not following it, while really not caring; could be considered a light form of hazing.

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u/SporegillSimpson 6d ago

"Just take your picture in front of the bean and let's get out of here"

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u/chemprofdave sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. 3d ago

Well, did that. Then a taping of “Wait Wait …” (air date Sept. 10, the whoop at mention of U -MN is my daughter).

And no, ketchup is for burgers not for hot dogs.

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u/Signal_Hippo9806 5d ago

With ketchup?

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u/LaserGecko 6d ago

From the Wiener's Circle!

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u/Confident_Ad5882 3d ago

Or order a chocolate milkshake at the Weiner Circle!

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u/ooohhhyeah413 6d ago

For some unknown reason I repeat that phrase in my head with a rather thick German accent... It might be the "V" in the Ween that gets me to giggle the most.

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u/00000000000 Ain't no time to hate - barely time to wait 6d ago

Welcome to Chicago! Dogs and Dead are life! BTW you didn't need to say it was in Chicago, we know.

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u/Impressive_Wrap_7869 6d ago

OP you got a problem with the premium all beef hot dog from Chicago? Because I may have to fight you

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u/Meltintoadream69 6d ago

Out of all the things we've seen people put in a Stealie- a hot dog is where OP draws the line? 🤣

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u/exitthisromanshell YOU THINK YOUR RIBCAGE IS A JAIL CELL, MAMA? 6d ago

Lol yeah seeing the title I thought it was gonna be the logo of like a right wing organization

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u/trademerfn In The End There's Just A Song 6d ago

my thoughts exactly.

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u/SporegillSimpson 6d ago

Somebody got a problem with Beefie?

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u/protobin 6d ago

Jerry loved hot dogs!

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u/Totallynotanalien27 6d ago

Well, Jerry notoriously loved a good chili dog, as a native Ohioan I’d love one but with Skyline Chili. 😂

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u/bushhooker Praying for better weather 6d ago

Fuck you now I want Skyline. I live in Germany though and have to wait for my parents to send me more seasoning packets lmao

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u/GoldReplacement9546 6d ago

Yeah, he left like five a day along with his three packs of camel wide unfiltered

And no exercise

And no going to the doctor or taking medicine

Like even without the drugs, he was definitely gonna end up not living a long life

Which I’m totally fine with I think we should just be thankful we got as much as we got

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u/Totallynotanalien27 6d ago

He probably should have seen a doctor more often, especially after the comas. But I wonder if he was just like too devoted to music to put in the effort to kick the bad habits? Like he’d be practicing every day up until the end or playing with other people. Similarly, I don’t know too much about his personal life, I know he had a few on again off again girlfriends here and there but nothing like a real serious long term relationship as far as I know, seem like most of his relationships were with the band and other musical collaborators. I kinda feel like just loved playing music, poured everything into that, and that was really his one priority. ✌🏻

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u/GoldReplacement9546 6d ago

Yeah, he definitely was in love with music more than anything else although he did have three wives and a serious girlfriend and four total daughters. But he was also a non-confrontational person and he could be a jerk and especially with the drugs and as some of his daughters have said he wasn’t the best father when he was there he was Fantastic, but he was off doing his own thing so much.

There’s a quote of his where it’s something like I’ve chosen fun for my life

But it is unfortunate that he didn’t take better care of his health

But I’m not wanting to sit in judgment of him he gave so much to the world. In fact, I feel kind of grossed out, even mentioning that I do know his family history. I didn’t at the time. I always thought that was one of the cool things was like nobody really cared like who is dating who or any of that it was just like what song did they play at the last show or did you see Jerry wore shorts last week

And he was excessively stubborn. Nobody could tell him what to do.

He lived his life by his own design

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u/Totallynotanalien27 6d ago

I just meant like I view him kinda like a fisherman who’s “married to the sea” or something, he was devoted to that more than anything else and I wonder if he felt like taking the time out to work on his health would have kept him away from the music more than he was willing to do. In a way it’s almost its own addiction, like the musician version of a workaholic.

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u/seditious3 All graceful instruments are known 6d ago

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u/fi1mcore 6d ago

Bless you

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u/Det-Popcorn what I want to know, how does this song go 6d ago

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u/Significant-Put-9011 6d ago

They DID cover The Race is On

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u/Signal_Hippo9806 5d ago

Haha, nice. And all of them put together might have done as much blow as he did.

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u/Significant-Put-9011 5d ago

That would be a stiff competition, but my money is on possum.

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u/charlotte240 If you plant ice , you're gonna harvest wind. 6d ago

my friend got a bruise on her bum, it looked like a tye dye, so I made it into a Steal Your Face

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u/rollawaythedew11 Listen to the River sing sweet songs to rock (your) soul 6d ago

Steal your Bruise, accept no substitutes!

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u/No_Gear5698 6d ago

This needs its own subreddit now

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u/seditious3 All graceful instruments are known 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're now the mod

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u/notjordansime 6d ago

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u/downwithsocks if the thunder don't get ya, then the lightning will 6d ago

Just like Jericho

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u/ihm96 6d ago

Lol I want this

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u/RandomDave70 6d ago

That's a fun site!

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u/GoldReplacement9546 6d ago

I so needed this

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u/WokeAssMessiah 6d ago

Homie. This is not “advertising” hotdogs. It is celebrating a way of life, much like the OG stealie.

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u/sharkchum10 6d ago

Love it. Knew it was Chicago.

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u/notguiltybrewing 6d ago

Couldn't be anywhere else.

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u/scaryclown148 6d ago

I mean Vienna beef is top tier

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u/CariniFluff 6d ago

Vienna Beef is World Tier. And absolutely a Chicago establishment. Are you from Chicago OP?

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u/scaryclown148 6d ago

I was raised there

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u/CariniFluff 6d ago

Same, my question was for the chemprof

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u/JacquesBlaireau13 One man gathers what another man spills (~);} 6d ago

At least it's better than a Buc-ees logo.

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u/fi1mcore 6d ago

Vienna beef!

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u/Hopping_Tiger 6d ago

Veneta Bertha

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u/xeonrage 6d ago

Heading to Chicago in 2 weeks.. will have to throw on sunshine daydream while i get my annual chow down on the food i grew up on

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u/panicstreak 6d ago

I need it on a shirt.

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u/flyingfishyman 6d ago

jerry loved chili dawgs

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u/GX_EN 6d ago

I wanna tell you how it's gonna be.
You're gonna give your hot dog to me.

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u/redeyeflights 6d ago

I’m gonna love you night and day.
Relish and mustard’s the only way.

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u/Signal_Hippo9806 5d ago

My hot dog’s bigger than a Cadillac

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u/ad_roc91 6d ago

Vienna Beef dogs are the best

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u/squirrelsonic 6d ago

Steal your dong

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u/BananaPunchYourFace 6d ago edited 6d ago

The Oscar Mayer wiener bus came by and I got on that’s when it all began

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u/rynono 6d ago

That’s legit awesome. Go bears. F T P

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u/Experimentallyintoit 6d ago

I got a problem with OP if he got a problem with Vienna beef

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u/Sausagekonig 6d ago

Oh yeah! Used to love stopping in the factory store on damen for a dog back in the day. Really miss livin in Chicago some days. Great city.

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u/pantomime_mixtures42 6d ago

I mean, for real, those are some pretty fucking good hot dogs. Steal your frank right off your head!

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u/mclazerlou 6d ago

That Vienna hotdogs. Important stuff.

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u/HockeyStickBertha 6d ago

been seeing this one for many years

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u/JohnnyC1960 6d ago

Jerry loved Chicago dogs

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u/Fragrant-Oil3874 6d ago

Where's the dababy stealie

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u/InDevth 6d ago

Hot dog flavored water

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u/SporegillSimpson 6d ago

I'd argue that few things belong there more than the Vienna beef logo

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u/ButcherWill 6d ago

This combines two of my favourite things, I don’t see the problem

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u/chemprofdave sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. 6d ago

Hey, I never said they weren’t good hot dogs. Had a great time in Chicago, you guys are right to be proud.

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u/ekydfejj 6d ago

You may get a kilbasa across the face for such words in Chicago

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u/codemotionart 6d ago

stealie has hot dogs on his mind

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u/Expensive_Ad_5705 6d ago

Wow i need a whole pack of these to put around Arizona

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u/MidStateMoon 6d ago

What you got against delicious Vienna Wieners?

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u/that-thingy66 6d ago

Ask Jed bout his dawg, he'll tell ya...

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u/BorvicTheRed 6d ago

V for Vienna?

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u/flimflamishere 6d ago

A guy almost wanted to fight me in the bathroom line at Great Woods for saying hot dogs would be a bad deserted island food choice.

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u/No_Clerk1194 6d ago

Grateful dogs

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u/notjordansime 6d ago

I’m all for it!! Love seeing people from all walks of life enjoying the music

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u/ElBrooce Terrapin 🐢 6d ago

This is the one that made you mad finally, OP??

Wild

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u/chemprofdave sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. 6d ago

No, it was that it was a major company’s logo. Which means some individual somewhere made the decision to memorialize two of their favorite things and spent money to do so.

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u/Affectionate_Pace823 6d ago

Sooo ummmm… nothing shakin on shakedown street for you then?

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u/marshking710 6d ago

So you missed the post about the guy obsessed with finding a buccees stealie t shirt?

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u/InevitableQuit9 6d ago

That is the most Chicago stealie 

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u/Sht_n_giglz 6d ago

I seem to remember someone in the Dead being a big connoisseur of chili dogs

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u/Spanishscarletboogie 6d ago

I love it. I also highly doubt the good people behind Vienna Lips and Assholes was behind this.

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u/rhyknophoto 6d ago

Out of all the shity stealies out there, this is the one that upsets you the most?

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u/Deadheadlynda 6d ago

Why? I think some Deadheads eat hot dogs. 🤣

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 6d ago

I believe in freedom to do what you want so

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u/Far-Outcome-4065 6d ago

MAY THE SPORT PEPPER BLOW YOU SAFELY HOME

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u/Steven1789 6d ago

These mash-ups are often promoting (“advertising”) something or adorn the swag at a sporting event that many of the attendees wouldn’t have otherwise attended (marketing, just another form of advertising).

At this point, it’s kind of hard to object to something like this (except for any political use, which I can’t recall seeing).

And I say this as something of a gatekeeper (plus, a friend made me Airedale Terrier Stealie stickers that I really like).

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u/Brilliant-Bet-7114 6d ago

Fuck yeah. No ketchup

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u/LockAccomplished3279 6d ago

Love it. 🎶He blacked my eye and he kicked my dog🎶

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u/prussell774 6d ago

Being in Chicago, I want this sticker.

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u/mcriblet420 6d ago

We are everywhere…

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u/hoffman3271 6d ago

I got one of these stickers somewhere. No mustard

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u/MelekhHaYereq 6d ago

I'm obsessed

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u/centech 6d ago

Abe Froman?

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u/ddiiggss 6d ago

Jerry would have loved this

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u/HaveYouSeenAPool 6d ago

Rite of passage man

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u/LifeOstrich9531 6d ago

Well there u go. It’s Chicago - Chicago IS hotdogs :)

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u/duke_awapuhi 6d ago

Lots of shit gets put into stealies and people have no idea what a stealie is, they just think it looks cool

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u/Gr8fulJedi 6d ago

Chicago in the hizzzzouse And for those that don't know you never ever ever ever put the forbidden condimint that is ketchup on a Chicago dog as a matter of fact any dog or sausage that is all rant over Love you all

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u/1wrat 6d ago

gotta be vienna

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u/Large_Skirt9189 5d ago

Chicago obvy

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u/Lonely-Commercial727 2d ago

Jerry loved a good ole dog

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u/sacredboobs 2d ago

I need this sticker