French fry coated hot dog on a stick

Behold the french fry coated hot dog, a Korean treat. (Via Kristie Lu Stout)

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Look out state and county fairs of the United States- South Korea just served your ass.
arkizzle / Moderator

I would.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Ew.
Anonymous

Just a shame that it’s made of actual dog
Heartfruit

I will admit, this is more appealing to me then fried butter, fried coke, or any of the other questionable-things-on-a-stick I’ve heard about in the last calendar year.
johnnyrighton

@Heartfruit: I agree. Though my first thought was “Oh look Boing Boing’s been to the Texas State Fair.”
Gilbert Wham

Home-made version, anyone? I’m game to try it. I How does one bind the potato pieces to the sausage? I’m thinking a mixture of potato starch, egg yolk and MSG, myself…
zikman

this is a Good Thing.
Anonymous

Needs some bacon.
madprime

These healthy treats were recently seen at the cafeteria in the New Research Building at Harvard Medical School.
Anonymous

The Minnesota Sate fair has this at the Blue Moon Cafe, although it looks different.
Phikus

That’s just too international for me. My head just exploded. ;D
MrJM

Dip that sucker in melted cheese and THEN you’d have something!

– MrJM
joeposts

not a corndog, but a … spuddog? potatog?
Toast

That’s called a “Spicy McHaggis” around here
Anonymous

“Just a shame that it’s made of actual dog”

Nah, I’m sure they cheaped out and mixed some cat in it too.
hotdog_guy

I have never been to the MN state fair but that looks DELICIOUS.

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Anonymous

Coming soon to an elementary school near you!
Dewi Morgan

I agree with all comments. Looks delicious, needs bacon and cheese, will keep an eye out for it in the US once I move there.
pinehead

I’d try it, but the bacon-wrapped hot dogs look even better. Cholesterol be damned!
surgicalsnack

Sadly, they’re not that good. I was very much looking forward to eating one of these things when I visited Seoul a few years ago. I squeed about Magic Hot Dogs for weeks in anticipation.

Maybe I got a bad sample, but it was dry and tasteless and the letdown was so severe that I almost wept.
guigit

Quebecers will coat it with cheese (poutine) and call it ‘pooch on a stick’
- Anonymous
  
  Quebecers will coat it with cheese (poutine) and call it ‘pooch on a stick’
  
  EWW! Both “poutine” and “pooch on a stick” sound disturbingly gross!
benher

The Minnesota State fair still has deep friend candy bars (which I hear tell double as a heart-attack inducing suppository) The US isn’t down for the count on junk-food yet!
randalll

Embed a ketchup deposit in that baby and I’m there.
fnc

At least all the ingredients this time are things that are traditionally fried, but still not something I’d go for as I don’t care for hot dogs.

There is only one fair food as far as I’m personally concerned, and that is funnel cake.
adamnvillani

I am a big proponent of fried food in general and corn dogs specifically, but truthfully, this really doesn’t look that appetizing to me.
Anonymous

Time for another episode of “How they do that!”
Hanglyman

Looks way better than that nasty corn batter stuff.
Anonymous

I live in Korea and I haven’t seen these.
Maggie Koerth-Baker

This may be the lack off sleep coming off an 8 hour trip back from Chicago on the Megabus talking, but I would totally eat that. I would eat the heck out of that.
Brainspore

I haven’t seen such disgusting efficiency since that “McGriddle” monstrosity.
word_virus

Well, I came.