Footlong; Pink Lemonade

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    Greetings, from he of the still-broken computer.
    The movie FOOTLONG was supposed to be out, but the folks seem to be
either in trouble or dead.  Their web site is www.foot-long.com.
    I couldn't find footlong in the RHHDAS, DARE, OED.
    From TAVERN WEEKLY NEWS (more from this later), 17 March 1938, pg. 3,
col. 4:

_12-Inch Hot Dogs_
    Out at Rockford, Ill., passersby can see a glaring neon sign in the shape
of a huge hot dog which proclaims "Hot-Dogs A Foot Long."  Anyone who cares
to verify this advertisement has only to step up to the window and look at
the 12-inch hot dogs on display.  Try to visualize it fi you can!  Try to
imagine what one of those hot dogs looks like in a bun which reaches both
ends of this monstrosity!  And all of the trimmings go with it--plenty of
onions, mustard, and pickle.

     From TAVERN WEEKLY NEWS, 19 May 1941, pg. 9, col. 3:

_FOOT-LONG HOT_
_DOGS ATTRACT_
    Palatine, Ill.--Foot-long hot dogs are featured at the Rainbow Inn,
Higgins and Roselle Roads.  But, for those who prefer something more
substantial, a steak or a chicken dinner is always available.

     One of my hobbies this past half-decade is to check up on which
newspapers have been suckered by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council
into thinking that Tad Dorgan coined "hot dog."  I found a recent article in
the DESERET NEWS on September 1st.  I wrote a letter to the editor with the
truth.
     There was no reply.  It was not printed.

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PINK LEMONADE

     If life hands you lemons, make pink lemonade.
     I found this in the TAVERN WEEKLY NEWS, 28 April 1938, pg. 12, col. 2:

_Secret of Recipe for_
_Pink Lemonade Bared_
_After Inventor Dies_
     Trenton, N. J.--William Henry Griffith, 82, to whom the circus owed the
discovery of the recipe for pink lemonade, died this week.
     His death recalled the tale of how he became the father of the "big top"
tradition, because an actress' red tights once fell into the lemonade bucket
of his refreshment stand.
     The liquid became a deep pink, but Griffith, then a youth, put it on
sale anyway.  It clicked, and thereafter he colored all his stock the same
delectable hue.

     And I thought the lye in bottled water scare currently in NYC was bad...