Rabbit Trails

  COWABUNGA 1954, American English, from exclamation   of surprise and anger by "Chief Thunderthud" in   "The Howdy Doody Show," 1950s children's TV show;   used by surfers 1960s as a shout of triumph.   In the 70's, I had a poster with Snoopy. He was on a surfboard saying: COWABUNGA! I wish I still had it. Don't ever over-use a word, because if you do, it loses its punch.    

I don't know what made us do it. It just happened. We decided to do a hot dog a week this summer. I'm all about easy. I can do this.   We did *Carolina* for the first one. It included chili, slaw, onions. The slaw was terrible, so the hot dog wasn't that great. I wouldn't do this one again. We had these on a Sunday. With company. But it was family, so if they didn't like them, sorry. Sorry I'm not sorry.     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The second one was the *Cowboy*. I had James grill the hot dogs. I think I bought some with jalapeno peppers in them.  This recipe called for M.J. cheese, fried bacon pieces, onions and mushrooms. All fried in Worcestershire sauce.    When I think of cowboys, I don't think of mushrooms. When I think of mushrooms, I don't think about cowboys.    I thought they would be good on these *cowboy* plates. We ate these by ourselves. ...