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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 06:56 AM Jul 2020

A New Study Reveals What's Actually in Hot Dogs. Hint: It's Not Meat.

If you think you’re eating meat when you have a hot dog, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ve been getting played. We all have.

What’s actually in them, then? “They’re 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/

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A New Study Reveals What's Actually in Hot Dogs. Hint: It's Not Meat. (Original Post) douglas9 Jul 2020 OP
I think Kosher hot dogs are different. madaboutharry Jul 2020 #1
Let's put it this way, I worked in the business for years and I won't eat hotdogs captain queeg Jul 2020 #2
Ball Park True Blue American Jul 2020 #3
Ears, snouts, testicles whatever goes in the scrap doc03 Jul 2020 #6
Ball Park tastes True Blue American Jul 2020 #12
Is that why they taste so good? dhol82 Jul 2020 #4
A guy I worked with got a job in a meat packing plant doc03 Jul 2020 #5
On the rare instance I eat one, it is $$$ bison hot dogs from Costco.... hlthe2b Jul 2020 #7
I refused to eat bologna and hot dogs as a child. fleur-de-lisa Jul 2020 #8
Haven't heard that one for awhile captain queeg Jul 2020 #9
I read the label on an off-brand can of Vienna sausage one time. Arkansas Granny Jul 2020 #11
If this guy can eat 75... Shermann Jul 2020 #10
The funny thing is True Blue American Jul 2020 #13
Linked to childhood leukemia Lulu KC Jul 2020 #14
Do I even want to read this? skypilot Jul 2020 #15
This is clickbait. Jirel Jul 2020 #16
Agreed Shermann Jul 2020 #19
... Kali Jul 2020 #20
Hot dogs are high in sodium too. Niagara Jul 2020 #17
I have too many hot dogs I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #18
The real truth about hot dogs, wieners, frankfurters etc MichaelSoE Jul 2020 #21

madaboutharry

(40,149 posts)
1. I think Kosher hot dogs are different.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 07:03 AM
Jul 2020

They are 100% beef and according to the labeling Hebrew National hot dogs are relatively low in fats.

doc03

(35,148 posts)
6. Ears, snouts, testicles whatever goes in the scrap
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jul 2020

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)
12. Ball Park tastes
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 09:45 AM
Jul 2020

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.

doc03

(35,148 posts)
5. A guy I worked with got a job in a meat packing plant
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 07:55 AM
Jul 2020

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)
7. On the rare instance I eat one, it is $$$ bison hot dogs from Costco....
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jul 2020

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)
8. I refused to eat bologna and hot dogs as a child.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:07 AM
Jul 2020

Still won’t eat either. My dad used to call them lips and assholes.

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
9. Haven't heard that one for awhile
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:57 AM
Jul 2020

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. Can’t remember the last time I bought a pack though.

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
11. I read the label on an off-brand can of Vienna sausage one time.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 09:01 AM
Jul 2020

They actually listed beef lips in the ingredients.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
13. The funny thing is
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 09:50 AM
Jul 2020

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)
14. Linked to childhood leukemia
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:02 AM
Jul 2020

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/

Jirel

(1,989 posts)
16. This is clickbait.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:55 AM
Jul 2020

You know what I do with hot dogs? Eat them.

There are 3 types of muscle - skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. You know what there’s 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. That’s why all beef hotdogs are yummy.

People are too easily shocked because they’ve become distant from the sources of their food. Repeat after me: sausage was invented to use up all those bits you don’t cook up normally - hearts, scrapings off the ribs, cheeks, you name it. Our hunting and farming ancestors didn’t throw away any part of an animal. That’s how you got blood sausage, haggis, all sorts of goodies we don’t usually even see here, at least not in a century or so, because we’re used to living “high on the hog.” You can guess where that phrase comes from now.

Shermann

(7,355 posts)
19. Agreed
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:08 PM
Jul 2020

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.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,450 posts)
18. I have too many hot dogs
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:04 PM
Jul 2020

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.

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