I have been working the ambulance in Hartford since 1995. When I started I wanted to collect different calls (shootings, stabbings, heart attacks, stroke, cardiac arrest, baby deliveries) so I could say I had done everything, so I could say I was experienced and not a rookie anymore. In time I came to want to collect other things, like good places to grab a quick bite to eat on the job.
I started a blog called A Paramedic's Guide to Takeout in Hartford, to get listed you had to be a place where I could walk-in and walkout with my food in under 5 minutes. Hartford is a multiethnic (Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, Polish, Korean, Dominican, Mexican) city with lots of great food including hot dogs. Plus, we cover several neighboring towns, including Newington and New Britain, which between them are something of a hot dog ground zero for Connecticut.