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| - As someone who spent months after graduating from college with a diet consisting of equal parts Thai food(as I was a delivery driver for a Thai restaurant) and Costco hot dogs, I feel like I'm a fairly good judge of a hot dog. I was excited after moving to Charlotte when I realized I didn't live terribly far away from a "famous" shop that had a giant hot dog painted on the side of it. And on top of that, dirt cheap prices that almost rivaled Costco's $1.50? I was sold!
Sadly.. it was not to be. Eventually I walked over to Green's one day and had a fairly tame lunch -- a hot dog with mustard and relish, fries, and a soda. Not a single part of that meal was even "decent".. I'll break it down:
The hot dog: Bland, generic bun -- think low end store brand grocery store bun. The hot dog itself was equally as bad -- it was *tiny*, chewy and not very tasty.
The fries: I'm pretty sure they were generic wholesale fries, I think cooked a little less than they should have been -- outside wasn't mushy, but the inside had a bad texture. They were completely unseasoned as well.
The drink: Ok, one out of three.. right? This is like the points you get for putting your name at the start of a test. Nooope. Somehow they ended up with the world's most aggressive ice crusher in their kitchen or something. The cup was filled to the brim with tiny little fragments of ice just short of resembling a snow cone. Then they filled it with soda, but given the cup was about 98% full of ice.. it was like a bad Coca Cola flavored slush drunk, unintentionally. I've had sodas that were flat, or the syrup in the machine was running low... but this was a new one.
Overall, my girlfriend and I agree that this is the single most disgusting meal that we've had in Charlotte. We had high hopes since a good hot dog is one of those things that can really hit the spot sometimes.. but I can't find a single redeeming thing to say about Green's, unfortunately.
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