“But what the hell is a half-smoke, and how did it get here?”

By dc_william
January 30th, 2007 @ 1:05 PM Food and Drink, History, Life in the Capital, Shirlington, The District, U St.

In case you have not seen it yet, the CityPaper has an excellent cover story on D.C.’s “indigenous street food”, the half-smoke.

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4 Comments so far

  1. Paulo (unregistered) January 30th, 2007 1:19 pm

    I’ve never had a half-smoke, and now I want one. I wonder how big the rush to Ben’s and the sidewalk vendors got the day after that issue of City Paper came out.

  2. Tom Bridge (unregistered) January 30th, 2007 3:54 pm

    Mmmmmmmmmm half-smooooke….

  3. Doug (unregistered) January 30th, 2007 10:32 pm

    Great link, what detail!

  4. Tiff (unregistered) January 31st, 2007 2:21 pm

    I had no idea that the WeenieBeenie was such an institution. I drive by there all the time- I’ll have to try it.


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