Echo Valley Meats Snappy Dogs

One of the perks of being the Hotdogman and the Shark Tank Blogger is I get sent stuff, like hand butchered hot dogs from Echo Valley Meats! Dave Alwan, owner of Echo Valley Meats, was on Shark Tank in season 4 and had an update segment in season five. He sent me about three TONS […]

Snappy Dogs – National Hot Dog Month Day 23

Lisa and Teresa over at Snappy Dogs have one of the funkiest hot dog trailers around. They’ve been grilling up Pearl All Beef Franks and topping them with their home-made condiments for four years now and they’re a Hot Dog Stories favorite. Since the theme of this year’s National Hot Dog Month Tour is “all […]

Snappy Dogs Opening Day 2013

Snappy Dogs is the closest place for me to get a nice, grilled Pearl Frank, so when the ladies announced Opening Day 2013 was April 8, I marked my calendar! After a winter that dumped over 100 inches of snow, only a week before opening day 2013, there was a BIG pile of snow where […]

Snappy Dogs in Hopkinton, MA

Day 13 brought the National Hot Dog Month 2012 Tour to Hopkinton, Massachusetts to a cute little trailer called Snappy Dogs. I promised the ladies some goodies, so I brought them each a National Hot Dog Month Tour tee shirt, graciously provided by the nice folks at DreamMaker Hot Dog Carts. A few weeks ago, […]

Pre Hot Dog Month Visit to Snappy Dogs

After a visit to Pearl Franks the other day, I found myself very well stocked with a variety of their franks. We’ll be touring the factory in a couple of weeks, so we had a preliminary meeting at their world HQ in Randolph, MA. They sent me home with samples, some of which I’ll be […]

Hot Dog Stories to be Featured on Chronicle

About six weeks ago, Drew Bennet and I visited Fei Fan Eatery in Boston’s Chinatown. Fei Fan doesn’t serve up your standard Asian cuisine, they put an Asian twist on hot dogs! We were treated to some of the most unusual hot dogs either one of us has ever tasted, and they were DELISH! The […]

The Framingham Food Truck Festival 2011

Little Miss and I hit the Framingham Food Truck Festival on Sunday, October 9. They parked a bunch of trucks in the middle of shoppers world on a perfect fall day. There were 11 Mobile Food Vendors: Cool Cow Ice Cream, The Cupcakory, Daddy’s Fried Dough, Firefly’s BBQ, Frozen Hoagies, Go Fish!, Grilled Cheese Nation, […]

Snappy Dogs and the Framingham Food Truck Festival

Food Truck Festivals of New England is coming to Framingham! The Framingham Food Truck Festival is at Shopper’s World, Sunday, October 9, 11AM-4PM. The Patriots kick off at 4:15, so come CHOW DOWN at the Framingham Food Truck Festival with Hopkinton’s own SNAPPY DOGS.

Snapping Good Health

Since January of 2011, I have lost 40 pounds and I ate a hot dog a day in July. This morning, I went for a check-up with my doctor- he was surprised by my cholesterol levels! You can read up on my results on The Hot Dog Truck.

National Hot Dog Month Celebration 2011: Snappy Dogs

I visited Snappy Dogs in Hopkinton, MA for the 8th installment of my quest to eat a hot dog a day in celebration of National Hot Dog Month. I like going on Fridays because that’s Snappy Special day. Check out the video to learn more. For the rest of the story and to track my […]