A hot dog dipped in sweet cornbread batter and fried on a stick, hand-dipped on the Santa Monica sand since 1946 and still made fresh at Muscle Beach today.
Dave Barham opened a stand called Party Puffs on the Santa Monica beachfront in 1946 and turned his mother's cornbread recipe into a batter for skewered hot dogs. The stand became Hot Dog on a Stick, spread nationwide, and the rebuilt original at 1633 Ocean Front Walk still hand-stomps its lemonade beside Muscle Beach.
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