my mom’s 60th birthday celebration was today, and the food theme my dad did was “foods of her life” (from the various places she’d lived)

One of the things he did was get actual New-York-pushcart hot dogs, and the mustard, AND the onion sauce—*AND* since we were just in New York, he thought to bring a jug so he could even boil them in actual New York City water

I’d forgotten how good New-York-pushcart hot dogs are