– FROM THE ARCHIVE – Some other people were talking about the silliest things they’d ever done. Their examples beat my own, but then, they’d done more things than I had, silly or no. The one really silly thing I’d done that they hadn’t was — and I swear this is true — I once tried to see if it was possible to cook all the fat out of a hot dog. I’m quite serious about this, though, as you can imagine, it happened on a day when I was really, really bored. I had eaten a hot dog for…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By jaimejweinman
Jaime J. Weinman has too much education and not enough food. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Morning News, Yankee Pot Roast, Salon, and his inevitable blog, Something Old, Nothing New. He lives in Toronto, hot-dog capital of the nation.
A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT
Some other people were talking about the silliest things they’d ever done. Their examples beat my own, but then, they’d done more things than I had, silly or no. The one really silly thing I’d done that they hadn’t was — and I swear this is true — I once tried to see if it was possible to cook all the fat out of a hot dog. I’m quite serious about this, though, as you can imagine, it happened on a day when I was really, really bored. I had eaten a hot dog for lunch, and I was wondering,…