Anybody Want a foot long???
A love story involving ketchup and a multitude of meats…
Ok, before I begin there is a story that you need to hear so that you can understand my perspective on this matter. A long time ago there was a boy (Me) who was…well he was a verrrryyy special boy and his mommy made sure to tell him how special he was as often as she could! So one day in junior high this special boy and his lady friend were at the field day (end of year celebration thingy) and there where hot dogs! So the special boy got his lady friend and himself a hot dog to eat. So they begin to eat their hot dogs and then the special boys lady friend squeals and starts spitting and then THROWS UP ON THE SPECIAL BOY!!! (YES YOU READ IT RIGHT SHE THREW UP ON ME!) Anyways the culprit of this unfortunate ruin er of my opinion of this special lady friend was a piece of bone that was inside the hot dog!
But Alas there is nothing better then the all american hot dog! I would like to show you something I found while looking up hot dogs on the internet to try to understand karmic-ally why the universe was punishing me with showers of doom and vomit (And no I was not looking up WIENERS) and then I want to discuss it with my strange and often mis understood approach at understanding things!
Ingredients
Common hot dog ingredients include:
- Meat trimmings and fat
- Flavorings, such as salt, garlic, and paprika
- Preservatives (cure) – typically sodium erythorbate and sodium nitrite
Pork and beef are the traditional meats used in hot dogs. Less expensive hot dogs are often made from chicken or turkey, using low cost mechanically separated poultry. Hot dogs often have high sodium, fat and nitrite content, ingredients linked to health problems. Changes in meat technology and dietary preferences have led manufacturers to use turkey, chicken, vegetarian meat substitutes, and to lower the salt content.
If a manufacturer produces two types of hot dogs, “wieners” tend to contain pork and are blander, while “franks” tend to be all beef and more strongly seasoned.
Now that was posted on Wikipedia (Which is never a reliable source fellow students and scholars abroad) And I just find it odd how something that’s main ingredient in this list is “Meat Trimmings” could capture the heart of a nation and be embedded in its history…Also makes you wonder what kind of Meat Trimmings they are! Could be mice, birds, dogs, cats, feral goats, deer, maybe it even has some of that Hobo you saw at wal mart just the other day (that you didn’t give money too you cheap bastard) but what really solved my issue was at the end of the wikipedia post!
I (the special boy) could have avoided the whole incident that ruined my childhood relationship if I would have just known that “Wieners tend to contain pork and are blander” WHILE “Franks tend to be all beef and more strongly seasoned” So if I would have not have tried to offer her a wiener and instead…offered her a frank…than perhaps we would still be friends today!!!
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