1/10/06 | Free Wienerschnitzel Chili Dogs
[ Currently Eating: Coffee ]
Apparently, it is not enough to just enjoy a Chili Dog every so often anymore. No sir… all the big diet kids are switching to the high flying, high risk,Chili Dog Diet at Wienerschnitzel.
First, the gory details about Wienerschnitzel in case you don’t know about them:
Wienerschnitzel was started with the opening of a single hot dog stand in 1961. Today, we’re the World’s Largest Hot Dog Chain with over 300 restaurants in ten states and Guam. Besides our signature chili dog, we’re also loved for our delicious corn dogs, chili cheese fries and chili cheeseburgers….
As recent commercials would have you believe, Atkins is out and Chili is in. The one I saw features a Wienerschniztel customer saying something like “Hey, I’m not hungry anymore because I enjoyed a chili dog for breakfast, a chili dog for lunch and then a sensible dinner of two corn dogs and a side of chili cheese fries. I am NOT hungry!” What he neglects to mention is that he’s not hungry because he can no longer hold down any solid food and is spending his teatime on the toilet contemplating the aftereffects of too much chili.
But seriously, I like chili as much as the next person. Chili Fries at The Hat are a transcendental experience. Well, it used to be anyhow. I’m not going to get into an argument over whether chili needs to have real meat in it or whether it can’t have beans in it (Texans, stop giving me that eye). I’m here to actually tell you that you can get a Free Chili Dog by signing up for their “Schnitz Fan Club”.
Have I signed up already? Not yet, primarily because you’ve gotta enter a bunch of personal info and my email box is already filled w/ offers for “hot dog enhancement”. Hehe, that was a good one. But hey, in return for signing up you get that free chili dog (valued at what, a dollar?) and access to special Schnitz “download and clips”.
I don’t know what downloads and clips entails, but if it’s anything to do with a naked hot dog with legs running amuck in downtown Los Angeles, I think I may pass just this once.
Price: Free
Available at: Weinerscnitzel “Schnitz” Fan Club
Cheap Eats Score: 7/10
January 11th, 2006 at 11:31 am
well i like chili dogs every now and then. i like coneys even better. i don’t think this brand is available here, although there are carts selling “new york style hot dogs” downtown. anyway a chili dog every now and then is not a bad thing.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
jim - I agree… chili dog moderation is the key.
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:19 am
I went to one of your resterants but the one the corner of
saratoga and stevenscreek in san Jose Ca is bad.
The manager and his brother speak very poor english just to get started! They have removed your 1-800 number so you can not makecomments all your other resterants have the number there
in the drive-up or walk-up. The brother is always yelling at the
other workers!
Now this is where it gets interresting on the money transactions
every other time the cash draw is open the manager and
brother have taken the money and pockets it this is at the
walk-up window and drive-up. I have will not go to this one
anymore i will use the first street or meriden shop.
I will watch the drive-up get lined up with 4 cars and they
wait and wait and drive off! Only to see the brother of
the manager waiting on them!
The manger I guess also ran another store in frmont of your good
thing him and his brother are only at this one.
Bill
Oh there use to be cameras at that store before they both
came there!
February 6th, 2006 at 10:31 am
I am on the chili dog diet and I am loving it alot to be more specific
June 26th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
So, what’s wrong with being on the toilet all day? It’s quite peaceful.
January 30th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I signed up for their little club and got NOTHING. No email response, no free chili dogs, nada… yeah I like their food, but their “club” is bogus.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Best chili dog I’ve ever had and trust me, I’ve tried them all.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 am
Ya’ll need to open a wienerschnitzel in Groton, CT. PLEASE!!