Corndogorama organizer Dave Railey was interviewed by the Loafing about the show:
"They're sort of a joke," says Railey. "You can get them at the fair or
at the amusement park and they're universal. I used to call them 'America's
deadliest missiles,' but now we also have vegetarian corndogs, which aren't
quite as deadly."
But the real reason behind his affinity for the battered-and-fried weapons
of mass destruction arose from a misconception during a performance on his
birthday, Oct. 22, 1996, at Dottie's (now Lenny's): "I had a bunch of punk
and skinhead friends who were coming out to the show, so I brought some
mini-corndogs and was expecting everyone to throw them, but they didn't.
They ate them. After a while it became a gimmick."
Creative Loafing, 6/24/04
This year, Corndogorama was expanded to three full days, thanks in part to the city's goddamn 3 AM curfew for nightlife. There just weren't enough hours in the weekend to jam it all into two nights, so this year things spilled over to Sunday.
