{"id":13920,"date":"2015-04-04T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13920"},"modified":"2015-04-04T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:03:53","slug":"cozy-dog-review-springfield-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13920","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Dog Review, Springfield, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cozy<\/a>Sherman, set the wayback machine for the early 1940s, Springfield, Illinois, Land O’ Lincoln, the horseshoe sandwich<\/a>, and purported by many to be the birthplace of the deep fried corn dog. \u00a0Others claim the honor should be awarded to other concerns, like the Pronto Pup Company<\/a> of Portland, Oregon. \u00a0The U.S. Patent office<\/a> has a completely different version of the origin. \u00a0No matter. \u00a0If you like them, you’ll pick them up most anywhere; \u00a0the late Mrs BurgerDogBoy was a big fan, but it was probably due more to the size and shape than the taste and texture.<\/p>\n

Me? \u00a0I can take them or leave them, but I’ll nearly always stop at a restaurant on old Route 66, and Cozy Dog has that distinction.<\/p>\n

Feeling a might peckish, I stopped in for a burger and fries, with a pork tenderloin on the side. \u00a0If you’re not familiar with tenderloins, they are pretty much the exclusive territory of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, and are made up of a boneless pork chop, smashed into a flattened, oversized ‘patty,’, breaded and deep fried.<\/p>\n

From time to time, \u00a0one runs into restaurants that vie for having the largest tenderloin compared to bun ratio.<\/p>\n

The tenderloin was adequate, tho most likely not made in-house, the fresh ground burger was great, and the fries tasty. \u00a0I like any place that has a condiment bar, and the Cozy’s was dandy.<\/p>\n

Finished the grub, and hit the road again, southbound on I-55 for another adventure. \u00a0The Cozy Dog was a perfect place to stop, as today was “National Something on a Stick Day.” \u00a0No fooling.<\/p>\n

Bonus? \u00a0It’s on old Route 66 and chock-a-block full of memorabilia to amuse you.<\/p>\n

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Burger and fries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mr & Mrs Cozy Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cozy Dog’s full menu<\/a>.
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Sherman, set the wayback machine for the early 1940s, Springfield, Illinois, Land O’ Lincoln, the horseshoe sandwich, and purported by many to be the birthplace of the deep fried corn dog. \u00a0Others claim the honor should be awarded to other concerns, like the Pronto Pup Company of Portland, Oregon. \u00a0The U.S. Patent office has a… Continue reading Cozy Dog Review, Springfield, IL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,15,16,26],"tags":[334,335,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}