My love for vegan hot dogs is somewhat documented here. So you’ll understand how the below is particularly cruel.
The road we live off of becomes a warehouse/manufacturing road as you go in to Wisconsin. A couple of miles in to Wisconsin on this road, I start to pick up a smell… of sweet relish. Then immediately, of warm fresh bread. Then half a mile later, of a grill.
OMG WHAT IS CAUSING THESE SMELLS AND WHY / I WANT A HOT DOG SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is what I think each time I run that route (like I did yesterday). But what do I have to eat? Gels. Citrus and vanilla flavor. NOT hot dog flavor (ha, gross).
I always forget about the smell by the time I get home (I only smell it running north, on the way out), but a few hours later, it hits me. AND I REALLY WANT A HOT DOG. And for some reason, never make one.
I need to make sure I’m stocked up on hot dogs and buns!
The cats’ new hex bugs arrived, and just in time! They ran the battery out on the one Rachel got them. Time to stock up on batteries, too.
In other cat news, apparently the personal rendition I was singing of “Blue Collar Man” when I walked in the door last night was so horrible it scared Apollo away… at dinner time! Whoa! Rude! Sorry buddy, I’m just pumped to see Styx on Saturday!
I don’t know if I’d like the smell of hot dogs while running. There is a baked bean factory on one of my routes and the smell makes me gag, especially in the summer.
I didn’t think I would like it, because food smells make me feel sick during runs typically as well (gah, there is this whole corridor of the Chicago Marathon that smells like grill) but it works here. Now I am thinking about baked beans on a hot dog…
I usually smell donuts (we run right by a shop), and then bacon from the houses we are running by. Not super appealing in the early morning, but dang, now I want a hot dog!
Maybe I need to run earlier like you do so the hot dog doesn’t appeal to me as much! Or maybe it doesn’t smell like hot dogs early. Ha.
A lot of the group runs I do will run past Mexican food trucks and then I wonder why I want Mexican food for breakfast lol. I’ll occasionally give in and get a breakfast burrito lol.
Ha! It’s no wonder! That sounds like an amazing breakfast!
Running by bakeries is what gets me. It always makes me want a sweet later in the day.
Do you ever indulge?!
Oh, yes 🙂 Though I try to make sure it’s something special that will be worth it and not a random stale cookie I eat just because it’s there!
Yes! Good call. Desserts are meant to be ENJOYED! (Well, all food is, but you know what I mean!)
Ahhhh, that run sounds like torture! I used to smell bread from a factory when I ran in grad school. Even though it wasn’t very good bread, the carbyness of it would really get to me on long runs! Maybe you should make your own gels of ketchup and relish that you can squeeze into your mouth. (Ew. Don’t!)
Ha ha ha, I like your idea though. Gawd, even now that sounds good. I finally had a hot dog this week and it was AMAZING.