Gleezy Double-Smoked Beef with Brisket Hot Dogs

October 8, 2025 — Virginia

By Martin Peyruc, Life News Today

Greeting readers. After yet another long hiatus The Reckless Gastronome is back, hopefully for longer this time. Those of you that watch my videos will note that they are now being narrated by a digital homunculus that while possessing my shape and voice (and unnerving presence) lacks my horrid raspy breathing that delayed video production, and drove my sound editor to deeper madness. Fear not though, my writing is still done by my mostly humanish hands and not A.I. which I don’t know how to use (mostly because I seem to be aging so rapidly that I appear to travelling backwards in time, hence why I dress and talk like I just got off a steamship.) Without further ado (although I do reserve the right add more ado later) let us get to the meat of why we are here. (I fully intend the pun and refuse to feel bad about it.)

Gleezy Double-Smoked Beef with Brisket Hot Dogs and its accompanying Gleezy Carolina Dog Sauce (sold separately). So why is the brand called “Gleezy”? It’s a play on a new nickname for hotdogs being “glizzy.” Now with that cleared up…oh glizzy doesn’t make much sense either? You want me to explain further AND I’m looking particularly handsome today? Well, I guess a little more detail won’t hurt. Glizzy as hotdog originated the early 2020’s in the Washington DC rap scene. Previously glizzy was slang for a Glock handgun, I’m not entirely sure where that connection came from but I’m going to take an uneducated guess and say that it was so called in honor of noted brigand and all-around ruffian Lizzie McGuire. From there people connected either the shape of the pistol or it’s clip to the shape and size of a hot dog and the nickname took off. The nickname has become so popular that people participating in hot dog eating contests are known as “glizzy gobblers.” (Ew, ew, and also eugh for the sake of variety.) I can only imagine what the innuendo treadmill will eventually do to this word, and for the kind of people that enjoy posing for pictures with their guns.

Enough rumination on future pistoleros, I’m doing a double review today so let’s start with meatier of the two (still no apologies for punning) and talk about the Double-Smoked Beef with Brisket Hot Dogs first. Each hot dog is 1/5 pound of beef and brisket (yes, I’m aware that brisket is, by its very definition, always beef) that has been double smoked. While I don’t know their process (and I have made enough sausage from scratch to know that I wouldn’t enjoy watching it on an industrial scale) I imagine that the dogs are first smoked as part of the curing process and then smoked again before packaging, but it is possible that ingredients are smoked before chopping and forming and then smoked again once shaped, which is what that are possibly trying to make people think by emphasizing the brisket in their description. Regardless of the reasoning the end result is deliciously smokey, with a rich flavor that suffuses your mouth with umami (I know umami is a relatively new concept in the West, but I’m not going to define it every time.) It stays juicy whether grilled or pan fried, I didn’t try boiling, but there’s only so much gobbling (still ew) I can do before writing my reviews. Like most all beef hotdogs it has firm bite but the interior texture is coarser than most hotdogs, resembling more the regional DC half smoke sausage. As I mentioned earlier it has a good amount of smoke flavor, comparable to a fully smoked sausage, but lacking the casing that gives it a snap. Ultimately, they are really good gourmet hotdogs, I do have some complaints, but they aren’t about quality so you’ll just have to wait until my conclusion (now you have to keep reading, I’m so sneaky.)

For the second part of this review, I will address the Carolina Dog Sauce. At first glance one might be forgiven for thinking this is just another variant of Carolina Gold Barbecue Sauce (I won’t forgive you, but someone less vengeful might), but there are a number of differences. Gold Barbecue Sauce, which appears to be having a resurgence in popularity (even McDonald’s is offering it at the time of this writing) is predominately mustard based with a bit of brown sugar, honey, vinegar and other spices and seasonings being slightly less than half its composition. The Carolina Dog Sauce even though it labels itself as a mustard sauce is firstly a cayenne hot sauce with yellow mustard further down the ingredient list. It’s a subtle difference kind of like having a leaf blow into your face versus having a stick smack you in the nose. The first thing that I noticed upon opening the container is the strong tang aroma, not to be confused with Tang, the drink the astronauts took to the moon, ah hahah (it’s a Coneheads reference, since I am a man of culture.) It is very vinegar forward with both the hot sauce and the mustard being made with distilled vinegar and they added some red wine vinegar for good measure. As I’ve admitted previously, I am quite weak to hot sauce (strong against water and rock types though), but I do enjoy the flavor, just not the effects. The heat level is a smidgeon above my comfort level, but I don’t mind at all because the heat roars in like it’s going to do some damage and then just as quickly vanishes. It doesn’t build, it doesn’t linger, it’s all pure flavor. The best part for me is that since it leaves so quickly, each bite is like a fresh hit that lets the food underneath shine even brighter. Think of it like walking into a cozy warm room after playing in the snow as opposed to sitting in a hot car hoping for the air conditioning to kick in while sticking to the seat. I truly wish more hot sauces had a similar profile.

Now for my thrilling conclusion (it’s probably not all that thrilling, but I like to ramp up the drama anyways.) I do have a couple minor gripes, not everything can be cherries and bl- umm, blowing bubbles. First is cost, when I said that the hotdogs were gourmet, I meant that in both the positive and negative sense. A four pack were on sale and still cost over eight dollars, so it prices them out of family barbecue and into glitzy glizzy territory. You can pick the premium, but honestly there much more budget friendly alternatives that are almost as good. The Carolina Dog Sauce, I also found on sale for roughly the same price, which isn’t too different than most quality barbecue sauces, but I think it does offer something that can’t be found in other brands, so it is worth the splurge. My only complaint is since it is mostly hot sauce the consistency is a bit loose and it doesn’t quite stick to what you pour it on. As you can see from my photos my attempt at pouring a zig zag pattern looks a bit wan. No instant-gram pictures for me. Instead of pouring more and risking a mess I actually dipped the whole hotdog into a filled ramekin after each bite. Even for a gourmet meal, it made it feel a bit pretentious and I say this as someone who has worn an ascot unironically.

Found at Harris Teeter