Morning Lineup - July 3

This is the Get-Ready-For-The-Long-Weekend day here in the U. S. The 4th of July, Independence Day, is one of the major holidays with lots of community parades, picnics and large fireworks shows.

Hundreds of fire departments will dusting off their antique pumpers and other parade pieces to lead their group of marchers through the town and wave at the folks. I wonder if that place in Long Island ever got their Silly String problem (HERE) worked out? If any of you get some pictures of your fire or ambulance units in tomorrow’s parade, send them along to us and we’ll post them next week. Make sure you’re waving at the camera, now.

Here at Firegeezer, we’re going to do our part to help make your Independence Day cookout a success. Actually, it will make every cookout or picnic that you have this summer a big success. So get ready to write this down.

Whenever you are cooking up some hot dogs on the grill, one of the secrets to making a good dog become a terrific dog is how you dress it up in the bun. And there’s no better way to serve up a hot dog than with a good river of Firegeezer Mustard alongside it. We’re going to give you the recipe right here. You won’t find this anyplace else because it is an original blend that was created and refined in the Firegeezer test kitchens. It was especially created for hot dogs, so make sure you have it ready for yours. This recipe is based on an 8 ounce jar, so naturally if you are using a 16-oz. jar, you would double the ingredients. OK, you lucky people, here it is:

FIREGEEZER MUSTARD

8 ounces of French’s yellow mustard. Empty the jar into a mixing bowl and add:

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
½ teaspoon onion powder

Blend it all thoroughly with a whisk and then spoon it into your squeeze bottle dispenser.

Note: Avoid the temptation to “add a little extra” of any ingredients. That will not improve it at all. This time-tested blend is perfect just like it is.

No doubt all of your friends will be bugging you for this recipe, so feel free to pass it along. Just make sure that they call it by its true name, the Firegeezer Mustard.