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Hot dog vendor Tim Nally prepares sausages and hot dogs for students at the corner of
East 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street Wednesday afternoon.
Local hot dog vendor
offers taste, service
to loyal customers
Tim Nally and his hot
dogs have been a campus
staple for seven years
OMIE DRAWHORN
NEWS REPORTER
While Tim Nally kicked back at
Taylor's Bar and Grill on a Tuesday af
ternoon, he seemed quite the man on
campus. Passersby waved a hello or
said, "Hey, Tim."
"You're popular," said a woman sit
ting at his table, laughing.
Everyone seems to know Nally. But,
he isn't a student or a professor, or
even the widely known "Frog"; he is
commonly known as the campus'
"Hot Dog Man."
Nally has sold hot dogs on the
corner of East 13th Avenue and Kin
caid Street for seven years. His frank
furter-vending predecessor, Cookie
Szakacs, died in 1994. Nally said he
enjoys the personal interactions of
his job more than actually making
the hot dogs.
"1 don't think about making hot
dogs," he said. "1 just talk to people
all day."
Nally meets many individuals
at his job and said he gets postcards
from people around the world,
including Europe, China and
South America.
"It's all addressed to Tim the Hot
Dog Man, Corner of 13th and Kin
caid," he said.
Nally previously managed the
restaurant Sam's on Campus, which
was located at 804 East 12th Avenue,
before it closed. Nally had traveled
and lived around the world since the
age of 18. He attended 10 colleges
around the world, including in Cali
fornia, Paris, Madrid and Mexico,
graduating after 10 years. He was also
drafted in the Vietnam War for two
years during college.
Some might consider it a chal
lenge to work in an open-air stand in
temperatures that have recently
reached 102 degrees, but it doesn't
really bother Nally.
"I never complain about the heat; I
complain about the cold. I hate winter,"
he said. "You can't be a fair-weather
vendor if you are going to do this job.
So I'm out here rain or snow."
The only thing that keeps Nally
mI away is the wind, and even in windy
conditions, he is usually absent only
”1 a couple weeks of the year.
Nally said business is down by
around 30 percent during the sum
mer. During the summer, he sells
between 50 and 125 hot dogs daily,
he said.
"If I break 100,1 consider it a good
day," he said.
The most he's sold in a single day
I is 170, which he said is almost im
possible to do.
He said the Junior Olympics has
picked up business some, bringing
new faces and a few younger people.
And taste and convenience keep regu
lars coming back for more.
"It's fast, it's not good for me, but
it's tasty," said Brett Wartchow, a
graduate student studying music
composition. "I like the guy, too; I
think he's awesome. I like to support
his business."
Business major Becky Kinney re
cently ate at the hot dog stand for the
first time and has heard good things
about it.
"My boyfriend eats here. He says
it's one of the best hot-dog places,"
she said.
Nally's customers have a variety of
toppings to choose from for their hot
dogs. In fact, he has "too many top
pings," he said, laughing.
"I decided if I was going
to do it, I was going to sell
a real quality product and
make it affordable."
—Tim Nally
Hot dog vendor
Choices include ketchup, two
kinds of mustard, cheese, hot sauce,
tomatoes, onions, dill relish,
jalapenos and sauerkraut.
But even with this variety, the occa
sional customers isn't satisfied.
"This guy wouldn't buy a hot dog
until I brought peanut butter," Nally
said. "I couldn't do it; it's too weird."
Nally said he had a customer who
would buy a hot dog and bring
his own anchovies from home to
put on it.
Nally said he is usually "good for
about 2 hot dogs a week." He said be
ing around food all day makes him
lose his appetite, but when he does
eat lunch, it's usually a hot dog.
Nally likes the basics on his hot
dogs: Dijon mustard, onions, toma
toes and jalapenos.
Nally prides himself in selling
only all-beef, kosher hot dogs. He
said one of his college roommates
worked for Oscar Mayer and told
him he should never eat hot dogs
unless they are kosher.
'I decided if I was going to do it, I
was going to sell a real quality prod
uct and make it affordable," he said.
Nally has plans to expand his
menu a little bit for fall by adding
chili dogs and homemade chili and
beans in a bowl.
Even with new items on the menu,
people will keep coming back for
the taste of Nally's original hot dog,
he said.
"Sometimes you just crave a hot
dog," Kinney said.
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