Raw Dog Raw Dog

Raw Dog

    • 4.4 • 34 Ratings
    • $19.99

Publisher Description

One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023

"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." The New York Times

"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." BookPage

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now.

“Wise and funny” —ANDY RICHTER • “Gonzo yet vulnerable” —GABE DUNN • “Hot dog Moby-Dick —BRANSON REESE • “Revealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curious” —SARAH MARSHALL • “A wild ride” —ROBERT EVANS • “Deeply incisive and hilariously honest” —JACK O’BRIEN

Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, they’re low culture, they’re sports food, they’re kids' food, they’re hangover food, and they’re deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can’t avoid the great American hot dog.

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It’s a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest.

So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven.

“One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade.” —LINDSAY ELLIS

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books.

GENRE
Comedy
NARRATOR
JL
Jamie Loftus
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:38
hr min
RELEASED
2023
May 23
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
499.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Rabbit11Comics ,

Everything I hoped it would be

This is the funniest, horniest, and most disturbingly illuminating book about hot dogs you’ll ever read or listen to. It covers a lot of ground briskly, smooshing together food review, all-American road trip, and Covid journal. You will probably get tired of hearing the word “snap”, and sure, this could probably use a small editorial pass to cut down on repetition, but that’s just quibbling. I really enjoyed this, and heartily recommend it.

kara1244 ,

I’ve listened 5+ times

This has no business being this good. I can’t stop telling people to listen or read immediately.

!!!!billy!!!! ,

this book has everything

hot dogs, labor rights, road trips, comedy, american myth making, wiener mobile gossip, hometown heroes, and a whole lot of gender pickles

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