DAVID DERBYSHIRE
UK Daily Mail
July 19, 2012
Want to lose your appetite for hot dogs? Then visit a frankfurter factory. It’s an unpleasant business.
In vast metal vats, tons of pork trimmings are mixed with the pink slurry formed when chicken carcasses are squeezed through metal grates and blasted with water.
The mush is mixed with powdered preservatives, flavourings, red colouring and drenched in water before being squeezed into plastic tubes to be cooked and packaged.
It is a disgusting process, for the hot dog is arguably the ultimate in processed, industrial food.
In response to the pink, flabby tubes of paste we serve our children, foodies have launched a movement for real frankfurters — or ‘haute dogs’.
Next month sees the opening of Bubbledogs, a London restaurant specialising in hot dogs and Champagne.
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you can make your own dogs.
Yeppers, I was eating at Wienerschnitzel for quite some time in the past. Damn I love them chili cheese dogs. However, I was gaining weight and feeling sickly all the time. No sooner than I stopped eating that crap my weight dropped and I felt like myself again. Them nitrate sticks will kill you quickly if your not careful. Stay away from them danger dogs!