The perfect Birmingham marriage: Hot dogs and peanuts [Video]

What’s more Birmingham than hot dogs and peanuts?

Two downtown Birmingham institutions — Gus’s Hot Dogs on Fourth Avenue North and the Alabama Peanut Company on Morris Avenue — are teaming up for a pre-Fourth of July pop-up featuring boiled peanuts soaked in Gus’s Hot Dogs sauce and hot dogs topped with crushed roasted peanuts from the Alabama Peanut Company.

Their “Born in the BHM” pop-up will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at the Alabama Peanut Company at 2016 Morris Ave.

“The idea is, before everybody heads out for the weekend, we do a little Morris block party,” Gus’s owner Lee Pantazis says.

“What better to do for the Fouth of July than hot dogs and peanuts,” adds Alabama Peanut Company proprietor Jaime Thursby. “So, it’s perfect timing for finally doing a collab together.”

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The two businesses have almost 200 years of collective Birmingham history.

Gus’s, which AL.com named the best …