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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.
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JAMIE LOFTUS is a comedian, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and podcaster. She’s worked as a staff writer on Teenage Euthanasia, Robot Chicken, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, and wrote and starred in her own web series for Comedy Central. She writes and hosts popular limited-run podcasts—“My Year In Mensa” (2019), “Lolita Podcast” (2020), “Aack Cast” (2021), and “Ghost Church” (2022)—and cohosts, with screenwriter Caitlin Durante, a podcast on the How Stuff Works Network called “The Bechdel Cast.” She has her baby teeth bronzed and loaded into a slingshot.
hi, this is jamie loftus. i am a comedian, emmy-nominated tv writer, author, and podcaster in los angeles if that's okay, but am from boston originally, with your permission of course. if you’re trying to figure out how you ended up here, these are my best guesses:
my book raw dog: the naked truth about hot dogs was published in 2023 and became an NYT and indie bestseller.
i’m the host of two weekly podcasts, the bechdel cast (since 2016) and sixteenth minute (since 2024). i’ve also written, researched, produced and hosted a number of limited run shows including lolita podcast, aack cast, my year in mensa, and ghost church. i’ve got a webby and a handful of iheartradio pod nominations to show for it.
i’ve been doing standup and performing solo shows forever and i really love it. most recently i’m working on a new show called the tiny man is trying to kill me, and brought my show boss whom is girl to edinburgh fringe to great reviews except for the one. other shows i’ve workshopped are mrs. joseph chestnut america usa to tour with my book, the hacker who codes, and i lost my virginity on august 15 2010 which is just true.
or maybe you like animated tv, in which case i’ve written on teenage euthanasia, star trek: lower decks, robot chicken, magical girl friendship squad, human kind of, or the upcoming disney channel show stugo. i was a longtime cast member on super deluxe back when that was a thing, and wrotte and starred in a comedy central webseries called irrational fears.
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