McGuire’s Take on Who Let Dogs Out

Al McGuire, always a New Yorker, on a Big Apple fixture, the pushcart hot dog vendor:

“The guy’s always wearing an overcoat and scarf. Doesn’t matter how hot it is, he’s wearing an overcoat and scarf. And the scarf is always hanging in the hot dog water.

“You tell ‘im you want a hot dog and he picks up a napkin and puts the bun in the napkin with tongs. Then he puts the hot dog in the bun with the tongs. He picks up the sauerkraut with the tongs and puts that on. Then the onions. Then he takes another napkin and wraps that around the mustard and squirts that on.

“Then he picks the scarf out of the water, throws it around his neck, wipes his nose on his sleeve, hands you the hot dog and says, “That’ll be four-fifty.”