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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA New Study Reveals What's Actually in Hot Dogs. Hint: It's Not Meat.
If you think youre eating meat when you have a hot dog, Im sorry to tell you that youve been getting played. We all have.
Whats actually in them, then? Theyre just tubes of fat, Tyler Rouse, a pathologist at the Stratford General Hospital in Ontario, Canada, explained to Scientific American.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/07/a-new-study-reveals-whats-actually-in-hot-dogs-hint-its-not-meat/
madaboutharry
(40,149 posts)They are 100% beef and according to the labeling Hebrew National hot dogs are relatively low in fats.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Is all meat, but I can not say what kind of meat.
doc03
(35,148 posts)barrel on the line. But I admit I like the cheap hotdigs better than the ones that they claim are all beef. The ones with various chicken, pork and beef parts taste better.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Better. Kroger has them 2 for $4 this week.
We are celebrating tomorrow because of the young ones working weekends for the summer.
No Co- oping. Kroger ,Home Depot and Walmart the choices. I was surprised that Walmart considers you an employee on School break.
dhol82
(9,351 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)while we were laid off one time. He said the place where they made hot dogs was known as the barf room. He said on the line that whatever they trim from the animal goes in a cardboard barrel for the barf room. Snouts, ears. tails whatever.
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)Damned expensive, but I know they ARE bison meat. I"m not implying top sirloin, rump roast or the like, mind you, but meat. How do I know they aren't "tubes of fat?" Because they are so lean that it is very easy to overcook and dry them out.
No, I'm not saying it isn't undesirable bison "bits," but lean meat nonetheless.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)Still wont eat either. My dad used to call them lips and assholes.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)Not sure about the ass holes part, what that would even mean. But yes, meat is a liberally applied term. Certainly cheek meats are a prime component. I avoid hot dogs and bologna most of the time but I do eat a hot dog once in a blue moon. Cant remember the last time I bought a pack though.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)They actually listed beef lips in the ingredients.
Shermann
(7,355 posts)the rest of us can man up and eat one or two. And like it.
https://www.newsweek.com/nathans-hot-dog-contest-winner-sets-world-record-75-eaten-10-mins-1515450
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)I do not like Nathan hot dogs. Or Starbucks coffee.
Anyone remember the Pyrex coffee pot you put on a burner with a metal piece underneath? I talked to a couple. They still use theirs. You can also buy them.
Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)I read this (in newspaper version) many years ago and it stuck with me. Not just bad for kids, but bad for dads, too.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8167267/
skypilot
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Jirel
(1,989 posts)You know what I do with hot dogs? Eat them.
There are 3 types of muscle - skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. You know what theres a ton of in hot dogs? Hearts. Cardiac muscle. I volunteer at an animal rehabilitation facility where we prep lots of meat. We used to be able to get large boxes of hearts cheaply and easily. But the price is up steadily because hearts are super popular for... sausage. Hot dogs. You know what is connected to cardiac muscle? Lots of external fat and smooth muscle - i.e., blood vessels like the aorta. Whole hearts go in the grinder, hot dogs come out. Maybe some other bits like cheek meat and other scrap joins it.
Hearts taste good, BTW. Thats why all beef hotdogs are yummy.
People are too easily shocked because theyve become distant from the sources of their food. Repeat after me: sausage was invented to use up all those bits you dont cook up normally - hearts, scrapings off the ribs, cheeks, you name it. Our hunting and farming ancestors didnt throw away any part of an animal. Thats how you got blood sausage, haggis, all sorts of goodies we dont usually even see here, at least not in a century or so, because were used to living high on the hog. You can guess where that phrase comes from now.
Anything ground up that finely is really just a basic ingredient at that point. You aren't going to bite into one and see anything recognizable as an animal part.
You are far more likely to get food poisoning from raw meat.
Jell-O is made from inedible skin and bones, and is as inoffensive as any food you can find.
All organic material has been recycled from something else. It's the circle of life.
Niagara
(7,403 posts)I stopped eating hot dogs, deli or any lunch meat years ago.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)I was given 6 packs,since I have had my food supplimented by the food bank.
They're in the freezer slowly being eaten.
Yeah already know what's in them. Probably with the lips and assholes is a heavy dose of pink slime.
MichaelSoE
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