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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

6 reviews

grabman's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Racism

breadbummer's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very funny and very informative! Probably not a book for boomers (my boomer parents, at least) with Loftus' consistent jokes relating to sex and/or diarrhea; I, being raised by the true god of older gen-z, the YouTube Poop, thought these were hilarious. I especially loved how this was all blended with the personal histories of the various hot doggeries and figures related to the food. Big bonus for the content warning section at the beginning, too!

My main critiques come from aspects that I'm not really sure can be helped. For one, a lot of jokes/silly comparisons/what have you are repeated multiple times throughout the book, which made me a bit tired of the "(whoever) wouldn't do (a specific thing) if they had (a specific weapon) to their head" (for now). Along with that, maybe it's just because I'm a midwesterner, but I was kind of appalled at how short the trip to the Midwest was. I mean, c'mon, not counting the chapter on Chicago, just Ohio and Wisconsin...? A huge swath of the country is being missed out on. But at the same time, I get it—Loftus has already been on the road for weeks eating variations of the same grotes ue food just about every day and is also

dealing with a breakup

, so I don't think it would be fair of me to complain all that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, and Animal death

Moderate: Excrement, Sexual content, Stalking, Body shaming, and Murder

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Vomit, and Alcohol

slimshaedy92's review

adventurous funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Jamie balances history, personal and national, in her exploration of the most American of terrible yet wonderful dishes. There are moments when I lose the plot and literally don’t know what we’re talking about but that’s for maybe a sentence. I was horrified and hungry in varying amounts at various times and I want to follow her journey (sans the emotional and digestive turmoil).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

joe_del's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing

Minor: Police brutality, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Racism, Medical trauma, Genocide, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

haileyeh's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual harassment and Police brutality

muffmacguff's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

(Read an advance copy on NetGalley)
I’m a big Jamie Loftus fan. I love her comedy and her podcast miniseries. This book is the perfect project for her. 
A lot of the time it reminded me of Assassination Vacation, another book where the author can’t drive and takes a road trip using a niche subject (hot dogs/presidential assassinations) to explore American history. This was funny and insightful and spent a lot of time with very strange arcana, which is Loftus’s bread and butter. I loved how often hot dog stands burned down *at some point*, and the multiple branded hot dog products designed to tell a horny story about condiments. 
The part of this book that worked less well for me was the personal. There are details about Loftus’s life throughout that give the book added texture but a lot of them end up getting glossed over; the book ultimately gives short shrift to

her relationship with her boyfriend, her family, her landlord, and Covid-19. The last handful of chapters also provide very workable endings, but then the book doesn’t end. I would have been happy to forgo strict chronology to end with her family in Boston, or back home dealing with her apartment in LA getting sold out from under her, or the breakup that’s endlessly foreshadowed.

Not enough of an arc overall I think.
But truly full of interesting information told in a very funny way! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual violence