Artie wrote:Jim's Original is celebrating their 71st anniversary tomorrow,Monday July 12th. Polish sausage sammy's will be 75 cents between 2PM & 6PM. Limit 3 per person.
Jim's Original Hot Dog
1250 South Union Avenue, Chicago, IL
(312) 733-7820
tropics wrote:/\ not convinced
Cathy2 wrote:Your combo might make it hard to keep track of (and feel) the bone.
DaBeef wrote:I have also had both McJeff's and Johnny Whopper Carmineputo Jr's this week. So I needed something new and explosive in my sandwich rotation tonight. Something that could take either of those on in a street brawl.
Da Beef wrote:Take an all beef Polish sausage with everything from Jim's Original ( My pref. for a Polish) and a pork chop sandwich with everything from Express Grill (My pref. for a pork chop) and remove the bottom bun from the pork chop and place the chop on top of the Polish and eat.
Da Beef wrote:-Take an all beef Polish sausage with everything from Jim's Original ( My pref. for a Polish) and a pork chop sandwich with everything from Express Grill (My pref. for a pork chop) and remove the bottom bun from the pork chop and place the chop on top of the Polish and eat.
Note: beware of the bone in da chop and watch your teeth.
Cathy2 wrote:Hi,
When eating a bone-in chop sandwich, the technique is to feel for the bone. You then keep your fingers on it for orientation. You rotate the sandwich eating around the bone.
Your combo might make it hard to keep track of (and feel) the bone.
Regards,
Cathy2 wrote:If you want the better experience at Jim's, you need to keep track of what onions they are offering.
fastfoodsnob wrote:Didn't find much current info on this via Google -- Twitter's another story, apparently -- so I went to check out the current deal in person. Got a $1.50 Polish "sandwich" w/fries at Jim's Original on Union by Halsted, Roosevelt, & 94. Like the signs outside prominently state, the price should be good in February (for Black History Month) on Mondays through Thursdays from 3-5 P.M. The deal's also good at Express Grill off the regularly $3.50 sausage, but when you've got short lines at Jim's even at 3:15 on a Thursday afternoon, why settle?
Other possibly relevant notes: the chewier pieces of fat in the sausage were a bit more noticeable to me on this visit (to the point where I decided to just pull 'em out rather than swallow 'em down), but the meat was still fairly warm if not hot on first bite. Jim's now also takes credit, for those of you without a lot of cash on hand (and want to get some restaurant reward points back on your VISA card). At any rate, the discount days are up for this week, but here's to the next, fellow food lovers!
Rene G wrote:A couple weeks ago I stopped at Jim's for a hot dog "with everything." Sure enough, it came with raw greasy onions at one end and properly cooked ones at the other. If there was mustard it was hard to taste. And definitely no peppers.
fastfoodsnob wrote:Oddly didn't receive hot peppers after an "everything" request, either.... Guess I'll have to explicitly ask for them next time.
Binko wrote:fastfoodsnob wrote:Oddly didn't receive hot peppers after an "everything" request, either.... Guess I'll have to explicitly ask for them next time.
That's an interesting one for me. I've always found hot peppers to be hit-or-miss in an "everything" request at any hot dog/Polish stand in Chicago. I always explicitly state "everything, hot peppers." It seems like I've been doing it that way for as long as I've know, as "everything" doesn't always include hot peppers, or elicits a question of "hot/sport peppers?" anyway, so I short the question. I find not including hot peppers to be reasonable, though.
Binko wrote:What's quite different, though, -- if I can riff a bit-- is these days I find myself saying "no ketchup" on an order of "hot dogs everything on it" at unfamiliar places. I don't give a shit whether you put ketchup on your hot dog or not, but it used to be that an "everything" order would never include it, just like it would never include chocolate syrup on your dog. I'm kind of left in this weird place where specifying "no ketchup" makes me look somewhat crazy at places that have kept the "no ketchup" tradition which, to be fair, is a vast majority of them. But enough haven't that I have to specify the request when visiting a place I've never been to before.
Panther in the Den wrote:During my visit to Jim's the peppers were wrapped in paper in the bottom of the bag.
Perhaps they were overlooked?
Although many will disagree, I remember when a hot dog with everything did not include peppers and they had to be asked for separately. For example... "Hot Dog with Everything and Hot Peppers".
Panther in the Den wrote:Although many will disagree, I remember when a hot dog with everything did not include peppers and they had to be asked for separately. For example... "Hot Dog with Everything and Hot Peppers".
JoelF wrote:I've seen places where "run it through the garden" includes not only tomatoes but lettuce and cucumber.
ROSELAND — A Roseland institution serving up sausages and burgers 24 hours a day steps from the 95th Street Red Line station will close Monday morning.
One of two locations of Jim's Original, a Chicago chain synonymous with the Maxwell Street Polish sausages, will close at 8 a.m. Monday as the CTA ramps up work on the $240 million overhaul of the nearby 'L' station, according to the restaurant.
"Some of the customers are really sad about it," said Betty Domagala, the restaurant's assistant manager who has worked there for 21 years. "They come here after parties, after getting off the train. They're going to miss it."
Domagala said some of the 16 workers at the restaurant at 16 E. 95th St. will get jobs at the "Original" Jim's Original in University Village, 1250 S. Union Ave.
Opened in 1990, the Roseland restaurant with a walk-up window is a popular among neighborhood residents who need a quick bite to eat that features the Polish sausages topped with mustard, Spanish onions and sport peppers.