{"id":91,"date":"2009-06-11T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.wordpress.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T20:23:12","slug":"krystal-mini-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham, AL &#8211; Krystal Mini Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t pass up Krystal&#8217;s version of chili dogs, mild curiousity.\u00a0 For those of you not living in the South, Krystal is to Southerners what White Castle is to Northerners\/ \u00a0 I wanted to try the Krystal &#8220;Pups&#8221; just because they were cute &#8211; diminutive versions of the chili dog, small enough to fit three into a standard styrofoam container.<\/p>\n<p>There being only two in my foto is not to be taken as a sign that one was consumed.\u00a0 I, in fact, only ordered. two.\u00a0 Should it surprise me that the included frank had the most flavor of any that I tried?\u00a0 Not really, I guess.\u00a0 In annual surveys of fast food joints, both Krystal and White Castle rate at the top of the scale for quality of food ingredients.\u00a0 They have &#8220;purer&#8221; ground beef that the McDonalds of the world, for example, so it made perfect sense to me that the &#8220;Pups&#8221; on their own, would taste good.\u00a0 The chili was better than most, but still not what I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/krystal.com\/menu\/pups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You have a choice of pups<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/pups2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"224\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Krystal Mini Dogs<\/p>\n<p>Krystal Mini Dogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t pass up Krystal&#8217;s version of chili dogs, mild curiousity.\u00a0 For those of you not living in the South, Krystal is to Southerners what White Castle is to Northerners\/ \u00a0 I wanted to try the Krystal &#8220;Pups&#8221; just because they were cute &#8211; diminutive versions of the chili dog, small enough to fit three&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=91\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birmingham, AL &#8211; Krystal Mini Dogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,16,34],"tags":[1343,2048,2286,3711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}