{"id":556,"date":"2012-03-25T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2012-03-25T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T18:54:38","slug":"top-sliced-hot-dog-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/556\/top-sliced-hot-dog-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"“Top sliced” hot dog buns"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I never knew was different between the Midwest and the East Coast until I moved here: the slicing of hot dog buns.<\/p>\n

Where I grew up, hot dogs had smooth sides — like the outside of a loaf of bread. The slice was cut in what I think of as the ‘top’ of the bun — the bun was rounded on three sides, and looked like a loaf, except on the bottom, which was white, bread-like material.<\/p>\n

In the midwest, they’re sliced (or made entirely) a different way — the sides that you put your hand on are not smooth, outside-of-load like material, but instead bread-filler-like white material, with the loaf-like stuff on top — looking more like two pieces of bread. <\/p>\n

The words for these appear to be “side-sliced” (which is what I grew up with):<\/p>\n

\"Side<\/p>\n

and “top-sliced”:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I just never knew that hot dog buns could be sliced a different way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing I never knew was different between the Midwest and the East Coast until I moved here: the slicing of hot dog buns. Where I grew up, hot dogs had smooth sides — like the outside of a loaf of bread. The slice was cut in what I think of as the ‘top’ of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}