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The Wieners Circle is a hot dog stand in Chicago, Illinois. It is famous for four things: its signature Chicago-style hot dogs, hamburgers and cheese fries, and the mutual verbal abuse between the employees and the customers during the late-weekend hours. On the weekends, the establishment stays open as late as 5:00 AM, drawing many drunken customers who have arrived from bars and clubs.
Sometime in the early 1990s (circa 1992) Larry Gold, one of the
proprietors, called a drunk and distracted customer an "asshole" in
order to get his attention. This set-off the late-night abuse culture
of the restaurant.
The atmosphere can range from playful to hostile. The language used by both the staff and customers during these hours in notoriously foul and aggressive, and sometimes racist. As the wait-staff is largely African-American and the clientele middle-class to wealthy white, the more racist epithets have led to the rare physical altercation. Customers commonly request a "chocolate milkshake," or for one of the female African-American employees to lift her shirt and shake her breasts.
Now, I didn't get a 'chocolate milkshake' but I did get booty shaking lessons in the ally, which is far better.
