{"id":397882,"date":"2026-07-14T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:35","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-anyone-charging-74-for-a-hot-dog-should-be-ashamed-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397882\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Anyone charging $74 for a hot dog should be ashamed of themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I think this article exemplifies the greed of so many restaurateurs in and around Los Angeles (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/story\/2026-07-08\/five-fancy-hot-dogs-for-when-you-want-gourmet-glizzy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFive fancy hot dogs for when you want a gourmet glizzy,\u201d<\/a> July 8). That someone would have the gall to charge $74 for a hot dog is not only immoral but disgraceful when so many people here have trouble finding food to eat on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>This is despicable and the restaurant owners should be ashamed of themselves. Even $15 is a ridiculous price to charge for something that costs so little to make.<\/p>\n<p>Victor G. Ettinger, Laguna Woods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I think this article exemplifies the greed of so many restaurateurs in and around Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[847,159802,2072,413,159800,159798,17757,5679,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,23339,159799,159803,159797,159801],"class_list":["post-397882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-article","tag-daily-basis","tag-editor","tag-food","tag-gourmet-glizzy","tag-greed","tag-hot-dog","tag-july","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-many-people","tag-many-restaurateur","tag-restaurant-owner","tag-trouble","tag-victor-g-ettinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}