Happy Independence Day! Kinda ironic that a Pin@y is wishing independence using English. I guess it's that adage of I am here in America because your ancestors were in the land of my birth.

Hermit Queen has started a Pin@y haiku with a structure of one, two and three words. I came up with the following haiku.

simmering
cauldrons of
kare-kare, adobo, and pinakbet

Dinner tonight was at TopDog a karinderia selling hotdogs. It is a classic Berkeley icon having started I believe in the Northside of campus. Going to TopDog is a tradition during football games in the fall. The Berkeley team might not be as dominant as it was in the 1930's, but gosh darn it, we will not be hungry during the games.

The hotdogs are awesome when they are warm. The taste is just marvelous. The dogs become average when eaten after the warmth has left the dogs.

The Calebrese hotdog was described as "Italian, all pork, paprika, chili, fennel, sem-hot. My tastebuds reported a spiciness to the hotdog. The texture was firm and the onions and sauerkraut mixed together to meld into a wonderful taste. The firm texture inside was matched by a crunchiness to the skin of the hotdog.