- All right, we are back
and it's our best friend's hour.
We've got besties Jessica St. Clair
(audience cheers loudly)
and June Diane Raphael,
Sasheer Zameera and Nicole Byer.
And my friend, Trisha Farrow (laughs)
(audience cheers loudly)
Last time Sasheer was here,
she told us how much she loved hot dogs.
So let's look back at that.
On your podcast with Nicole
you said hotdogs are your love language (laughs).
Is that true?
Do you like hot dogs that much?
- I love hot dogs, yeah - Me too
- I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it
but I love them.
'Cause I feel like
I've talked to people who are like, oh, you know
what's the best meal you've ever had?
And they're like this pasta in Italy
or like the seafood by the bay.
And I'm like, I had a great hot dog at Magic Kingdom.
(Kelly laughs loudly)
- Can you relate, people? (audience cheers)
So, Jessica, like, do you'll like hot dogs?
You'll hot dog people?
- I'm not a hot dog person - Nope.
I'm gonna say we're gonna have to win them over.
(everyone laughs) Okay, okay, yeah.
- Well you're all in luck
because our next guests are sisters
and built-in best friends
who run one of the most iconic hot dog stands
in the San Fernando Valley.
From Cupid's Hot Dogs, let's say hi to Morgan and Kelly.
(audience cheers loudly) - Hi.
- I love hot dogs.
I'm so into every kind of hot dog.
I'm a little overwhelmed because I feel
like I make four different types of hotdog here.
So this is, this is Jessica. Meet everybody.
Say hi to everybody
- Hi. I might become a hot dog person after this.
- Okay, so my mouth is watering
and I'm actually starving for lunch.
So let's get to it.
So Cupid's has been around since 1946.
Is that right?
- Yeah. So our grandparents started it 76 years ago
a little shock in North Hollywood
and then our dad took over when they passed away
and then our dad passed away really suddenly in 2009.
I was in college,
Kelly had her own career going
and it was just kind of like
your dad's debt payrolls due on Monday.
Figure it out.
- Oh my gosh, that's intense
and a very serious synopsis.
Okay.
So, you've modernized it though, right?
Over the years.
- We really wanted to stay true
to our grandparents' original vision
of just like a simple hot dog stand
where you sell hotdogs, chips and a drink.
But the last few years, we added a few new features.
We do a classic car show
and we added a veggie dog, that she's trying,
at our Winnetka location.
But we really just also wanted,
if you came to our store in the forties and the fifties
and you're eating it now,
you're still tasting the same
- I love it. - Cupid dog
that you had, you know,
for the last 76 years.
- Nostalgia. - Yeah
- I like it, I like It.
Like I said, I'm very hungry.
So how, what do you suggest? Let's start.
- So I think if you wanna start
with any of the wet condiments
if you wanna grab like mustard, ketchup, mayo,
grab that.
- What do you wanna do ?
- And so we'll do that first.
You always wanna make sure that
that the dog is making like a smile.
So that's what's gonna keep everything in there.
- Okay. - And then go ahead
and grab anything that's chunky, right.
So like your... - I'm gonna do some
- Oh, snap!
Spill on aisle four. (laughs)
- some onions.
- You know that sometimes happens.
We do car hop service where we serve food on our skates.
And so sometimes there's accidents like that.
We'll crash into a car.
Food goes flying.
So it's always that thing. - This place sounds so fun.
- Yeah. - I love that.
I love that. (audience claps)
OK. What's next? 'Cause I'm holding out
for this chili. - Yes.
- That's always our final step.
- Okay - So we like to
cover everything in chili at the end.
- Okay.
Okay, good, you're grabbing it.
Okay. - Yeah.
- Let's go for it. - Look,
I'm trying to be polite
but like I really want some of this chili, girl.
- No, no, no. Do it.
- Yeah, I'm loading it up.
What is it? How is yours looking?
Mine's chili inspired.
There's real chips.
- Yeah, chili, chips.
I also asked for mine to be bacon-wrapped.
before I got here, so.
- Yeah, she got a special one. (laughs)
- You asked what? (laughs loudly)
- I didn't know you could ask.
- Oh my God, I love you, Sasheer.
- She loves hot dogs. - That was the special one
for today
- Now you can put this on your menu
and call it the Sasheer. (cheers)
- I mean, are you serious? - Sasheer you're like blushing
(Sasheer laughs loudly)
- This means so much to me.
- I gotta point out, y'all, my best friend,
she's real basic here with just mustard.
- That's it.
- Try it with some sauerkraut. - Yep.
- She won't - No, no.
- Just mustard.
- She said no to all of it. - Mustard.
- Look, I was adventurous.
- I will say if you just do ketchup
anyone from Chicago will yell at you.
I have people like standing in line.
If they see somebody put ketchup on their dog
they get very aggressive about it.
- They will let you know.
- Oh my gosh.
This is amazing.
I don't know - Is it good?
- If we were supposed to taste it.
- Let's all take a bite
(audience cheers loudly)
- You know what?
I love crunchy.
I've never, I've tried like chips on sandwiches
but not hot dogs.
This is nice.
- It's good.
- Yup.
- That's delicious. - We had a woman celebrate
her hundredth birthday party with us recently.
- What? - She said she was
our first customer in 1946.
And when she turned a hundred,
she flew her whole family out from all over the country
and they had hot dogs at our shore.
- Oh my God. - I love that.
- Yeah. - This is delicious.
- How sweet is that? - So good.
- Oh my God, there's nothing like
hot dogs among friends, right?
- Right.
- Plain Jane (laughs loudly) - Yes
- Thank you so much, everybody enjoy your hot dog.