![]() ![]() “If I eat on campus, I come to Biker Jim’s,” she said. ![]() Carlson also orders the classic Alaskan Reindeer dog with caramelized onions, but she prefers to get a sour dill pickle slice on her dog.Ĭarlson eats at Biker Jim’s cart every other week. Mueller and her friend Rebecca Carlson, a fellow senior at CU Denver, play a game of comparing toppings. When asked why Mueller frequently visits the hot dog cart rather than the various food options in the Tivoli, she said, “It’s so much faster and all around better.” Her pro-tip is to order the classic style which comes with caramelized onions at no extra charge, and she doctors it up with a healthy squirt of Sriracha and mustard. “I order from Biker Jim’s about twice a week and that’s for the past four years,” Mueller said. Mueller usually purchases the famous Alaskan Reindeer dog. Photo by Lizzie Stowe/ ĬU Denver senior Kaitlin Mueller said she stops by the Biker Jim’s cart almost every weekday. Jerry Cass prepares for the day at his Biker Jim’s cart on Auraria Campus on April 2. “When he wasn’t screaming about it, I would see him in the morning when he was showing up, and he was like a regular dude,” he said. So it was so weird because all of that is happening right over here, and I’m like, ‘Do you want chips and a drink with that?’”Ĭass said he would be setting up in the morning when “The Jesus Screamer” arrived, and the two would even strike up conversations. “At the time, it would always happen when I was, like, right there. He remembers a period of time where a man known as “The Jesus Screamer” would stand adjacent to his cart and preach loudly to a crowd of bewildered passersby. In five years, Cass has seen the good, the bad and the straight-up weird on campus. “It’s kinda like being a trucker and a cook in the same day.” “According to my W-2, I’m a sausage cowboy,” Cass said with a laugh. But finding a way to describe what he does for Biker Jim’s is difficult. “I’ve been here so long that I know everybody here, and it’s like, I wouldn’t know what to do anywhere else,” Cass said.įor the past five years, he has been flipping the dogs every day in rain, snow, wind or shine. This gourmet hot dog stand is shared with students and faculty by the man behind the cart - Jerry Cass. The smokiness that hangs in the air on campus is a product of Biker Jim’s cart parked between the Tivoli and the King Center.
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