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Jul 16, 2025
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Skip the line at the fairgrounds and
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don't be buying no more out of the
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frozen food section. What we got here is
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a bacon wrapped jalapeno cheese corn dog
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right here at the wagon the cowboy way.
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You know, I've been many a mile with a
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trailer and a chuck wagon going
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somewhere either to feed cowboys or
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cater for somebody so many years ago.
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And I learned, and Shan did too, that
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your bladder must be the same size as
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your diesel tank. And when we would pull
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in, the food items would be of truck
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stop assortment, which was what?
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Burritos or corn dogs. And I am a corn
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dog connoisseur. My favorite is a
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jalapeno cheese corn dog. But that crust
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has to be just right on it to where it's
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got a little sweetness to it, but it's
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never hard. So really when the corn dog
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got its start was in the mid20s in South
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Texas by the German immigrants. Now,
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they would take a hot dog and sort of
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roll it in a batter or a more crust-like
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bread tissue and then they would bake it
1:04
instead of frying it. Let's hit the fast
1:05
forward button and skip about 22 years
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and get into the 1940s.
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State Fair started really coming about
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and one of the biggest ones up there in
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Minnesota and they had Pronto Pups. Yes,
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Pronto Pups. a cornmealbased
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batter with a hot dog on a stick dipped
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in it and deep fried and brought out and
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served to the public. They was a big
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hit. Now, Texas claims they really did
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have the first corn dog that was at a
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state fair. So, they going to may be a
1:35
feud here. I don't know. But it was by
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Fletcher's corn dogs and they would have
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them there at the fair and serve
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thousands of them as the fair went on.
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So, whoever you think invented the corn
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dog and whatever state fair you eat it
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at, that is all right. But folks, I am
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fixing to make a halapina cheese bacon
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wrapped deep fried corn dog that will
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put them all out of business.
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So, let's talk about the type of hot dog
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that we're going to use. Now, I've made
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corn dogs previously and just used like
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a regular bars or maybe even a Nathan's.
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Now, if you want to really elevate your
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corn dog, you can use like a smoked
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sausage or something like that. And to
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even give it more flavor, if you want to
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go to the trouble, throw these on the
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grill or the smoker just a little bit to
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get some of that smoked flavor before
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you even start.
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Before we even get into this recipe, one
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of the most essential things you've got
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to have for a corn dog is a stick. So,
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come on. We're going to go stick
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hunting.
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You know them sticks that they got, you
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might could find them at a Hobby Lobby
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or a craft shop, something like that.
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Where would you buy a stick?
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I I think you get them at a craft shop,
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you know, on Amazon.
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Yeah. Or just save save your popsicle
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sticks or buy a couple of corn dogs and
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feed them and then use the sticks for
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us. So, we're going to take these and
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cut it up here. Let me see if I can get
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that.
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This ought to be pretty good if I can
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get this cut right here. There you have
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it. Our first corn dog stick.
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[Music]
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Well, got all my sticks whittleled up
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and ready for our hot dogs. And speaking
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of hot dogs, had two that's been roaming
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around out here and they've got pretty
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hot. They have. Now, if y'all are like
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me, and I think most of you are, we take
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care of our family, but also we take
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care of our four-legged family. I mean,
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they mean so much to us. And we have got
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the greatest taste testers in the world,
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but we're going to take care of them and
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feed them the best that we can. All of
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our dogs are rescue dogs. And we rescued
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Major. He's the oldest one in the bunch.
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He didn't have no hair much. He had to
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pull five teeth when we first got him.
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So after that, we got to thinking, you
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And let's take care of them the best
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that we can.
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took me six pieces of that bacon and
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fried it up. I'd say about 3/4 done. You
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don't want it so crispy because we got
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to wrap that hot dog with it. Then we're
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going to mix up the dry, which is
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cornmeal, flour, a little bit of brown
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sugar, a little bit of garlic powder,
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and baking powder. So then we got to mix
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up the wet. We do. And we're going to
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start off with a cup and 3/4 of
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buttermilk.
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Why do you use buttermilk?
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Because it gives it a better flavor to
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fry with.
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And I want to ask y'all, my mother used
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to drink this right out of the carton.
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How many of y'all do that? Me and Shan
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don't. But I'm just wondering
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to that. We're going to add some honey
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cuz we need a little sweetness in there.
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Our honey's in bad shape.
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To that some avocado oil.
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One cackleberry.
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This will go to the possums.
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Let's give it a mixing.
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And you have to remember now that
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buttermilk is cold. The egg is cold.
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That honey is sort of just room
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temperature. So keep stirring till you
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know it is mixed well. Remember all the
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dry we had over here. Just give all that
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a little mixing with your hand to bring
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it all together. There is a lot of knots
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in here that I didn't even know we had.
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Make you a little well there in the
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middle. Give it one more little stir.
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Let's pour it in there
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and then let's go to mixing. Now
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remember, this isn't a pancake batter.
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This is a frying batter for corn dogs.
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So, it's going to be a need a little
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thicker than you think it's going to be,
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but we can always adjust with either
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more cornmeal or a little more
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buttermilk.
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You see that? That'll stay on a corn
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dog. It will. That's about what we're
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after. You'll know when you dip that
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first one in there and you pull it out
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if it all just runs off air like water
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off a duck's back. You'll think, "Hey,
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that ain't thick enough." Time to get
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the corn dogs cooperating and everything
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going along down the trail. It is. So,
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first of all, when you just see these
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and you grab them out of that package,
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see that wetness that's on there? We
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can't be having none of that. You can't
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make a corn dog with a wet hot dog. So,
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we're going to lay them out here, all of
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them, and we're going to dry them off
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before they have to get in that hot
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grease. Uh-oh. Mage wind got them. You
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keep up with them. Give them a good
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drying.
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I don't want to see any moisture on
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them. You check them, pick them up, you
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look at them, make sure there is no
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moisture because batter will not stick
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to that.
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[Music]
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Everybody's dried out. And excuse the
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wind. It was a sudden guff of mother
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nature. She said, "You want them dried
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out? I'll give you a little breeze to
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help you." Now, something that helps
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batter stick to any meat there is. And
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y'all have seen me do it with chicken
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fried steaks a lot. And that is just a
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little dusting of corn starch. Just give
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them all a good little coating. Make
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sure that everybody's dry.
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You don't want to leave a lot of excess
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on there.
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All right, everybody is corn starched
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and ready to go. Nobody there has diaper
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rash cuz you can use cornstarch for
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diaper rash. You can. We got to have
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some toothpicks
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so that bacon is going to stay in place.
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We'll take our first participant of
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bacon here. And I'm just sort of
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guessing where we're going to start
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here. So I'm thinking about right here
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that close to the top. Wrap her on
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round.
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This is why you don't want your bacon
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overcooked. And this piece is a little
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overcooked. So, this fella may get
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cheated just a little on the bacon
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wrapping. Just pin this one. There you
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have a bacon wrapped ready to go. We'll
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get the rest of them done.
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[Music]
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We got our peanut oil here heated to
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350°
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and we have got everybody ready to go
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over here. Now, you can see when we got
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the stick in there, you're thinking, I'm
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going to fry these. Make sure that your
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vessel is big enough when you lay it in
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there that it'll fit. It's not going to
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hang up on the sides. So, it's time to
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do the corn dog dunk and swirl.
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Then, I just need you to take this right
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over here close to where you're going to
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fry. Give it a little one more. Give it
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a twirl right there on the end. Drop her
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in the grease. And there we go. We're
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going to fry these probably I'd say no
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more than about 2 to 3 minutes. We're
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going to let them get good and golden
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brown. Put them on a wire rack. Let them
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drain. Then we're going to eat them.
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[Music]
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No more lining up at the fairgrounds,
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standing in line, or no more going into
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the store to get a corn dog. We have
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done you right here, folks. I got two
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really good tips I'm going to give you
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right here. First of all, make sure you
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don't overcook that bacon to where you
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can wrap it around there and it don't
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crumble and break. Number two, make sure
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you remove them toothpicks because they
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hard on your gum line and the top of
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your mouth. Now, I couldn't wait while
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Shannon was getting all this ready on
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these cameras and I done took a bite,
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but I'm going to have another
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corn dog swirl. Mhm. Oh my gosh, folks.
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I love a corn dog, but I love it with
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mustard. But even more than that, I love
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it with our sweet and spicy green chili
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mustard.
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Gosh,
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thank you Jesus for corn dogs.
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Let me tell you, there's three stars of
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the show here.
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It is the batter itself, which has got a
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little sweetness to it, but then you get
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when you bite, you get that bacon right
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there that goes with it, but then you
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get the jalapeno and the cheese in the
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little hot dog itself. It don't get no
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better than this. They're a little
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timeconuming. If you're doing them by
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yourself, get you a partner, get the
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family in there. Don't go and line up or
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buy them frozen corn dogs at the store.
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Make your own. I have had me a lot of
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good help at the wagon today. It's
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warmed up, but they've been here through
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it all. So, I'm going to pinch them off
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just a little bit of this batter right
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here. Maybe even a piece of bacon to go
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with it. Pups. Hey,
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where are the pups?
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Okay.
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get on and up in here quick. I'm going
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to do it this way today. Two corn dogs
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in one hand. I'm not going to juggle.
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I'm going to give you a big old hug.
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God bless you each and everyone and I'll
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see you down the jalapeno cheese bacon
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wrap deep fried corn dog trail.
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