In the US they usually come in clear plastic packaging....

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I threw one in a deep frier once. The outside got crispy and the inside just tasted like a regular old hot dog. You will try anything after to many drinks. Skybird is right, the hot dog is the left overs mushed in skin. Now, if you really want something nasty, try scrapple. Just a the name says it all.....SCRAPple. The stuff found on the meathouse floors all bundled up and mushed into a paddy. Oh, just yummy:down:

Ahhh!
Those things are foul! They don't even remotely resemble bits of animals anymore.

If I can't make it in the kitchen, I don't buy it.
Sauces for me! Fried with some olive oil.
Preferably venison or pork and apple.

Everything you ever wanted to know about hot dogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
Only 100% beef for me, boiling them in beer might not be so bad:hmm:

Who can forget the classic racoon quote from The Great Outdoors with Dan Akroyd and John Candy.

I hope you mean polish sausage or something. I don't eat hot dogs in the classic sense.

Some interesting hot dog info:

What are hot dogs made of?

Not dogs!
Are hot dogs really made from pigs' snouts and unused meat scraps? Contrary to popular belief, hot dogs are not made from left-over meat laying around on the floors of meat-packing houses. Whether it is pork or beef that is stuffed into a hot dog, the meat trimmings are carefully selected just like the meat you buy in your grocer's coolers.

Most recipes for hot dogs combine together a tasty blend of favorite meats (pork, beef, chicken, or turkey), meat fat, a cereal filler which could be either bread crumbs, flour, or oatmeal, a little bit of egg white, and a mouth-watering array of herbs and seasonings including garlic, pepper, ground mustard, nutmeg, salt, and onion.


Once these ingredients are grinded together, the stuffing is squeezed into sausage casings. Many of the hot dogs sold in stores are enclosed in synthetic cellulose casings, but most home-made hot dogs are made out of natural animal intestines.
Following the stuffing process is the pre-cooking cycle in which the hot dog links are tossed into boiling water for approximately 15 minutes. Finally, the dogs are packaged, loaded on delivery trucks, and sent off to food markets.


Hot dogs are popular among Americans because they are easy to make, inexpensive, and delicious. Hot dogs can be prepared in a number of great ways--nuke-em, grill-em, sauté-em, roast-em, fry-em or boil-em.


What is your favorite type of hot dog? - a chili dog, a cheese dog, or a foot-long dog? A multitude of toppings can enhance the flavor of your hot dog. Common toppings used on hot dogs include ketchup, mustard, onions, relish, chili, cheese, and sauerkraut.


Hot dog lingo. Hot dogs are also called franks, frankfurter, weiner, mini sausages, ball parks, and dachshund.


Did you know?

July is National Hot Dog Month
An average American eats 60 hot dogs a year
In 1893, hot dogs became the standard cuisine for baseball games.
Controversial debate surrounds the creation of the hot dog. Who really created the first hot dog? Although the city of Frankfurt, Germany credits itself for the origin of the first frankfurter in 1852, some argue that Johann Georghehner, a butcher from Coburg, Germany created the first frankfurter in the 1600s.

Scrapple, enter if ye dare :dead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple :dead:

That doesn't bother me to much.
When Im prepareing my own rabbit I try to eat all that can be eaten as long as it
doesn't take to much time to prepare and clean.

That said, Im not sure I would want to eat all those bits if I wasn't confident about the
standerds of preperation.

Who wouldve thought they boiled the whole head and internial organs.:shifty:

I never liked hotdogs, but then one morning (about 3am after a big night out) I visited one of the many nighttime food vans that dot my city, and a mate bought me one. Cheese and sauce on a roll, I was hooked.

3 years later, back at that same van, they misheard my order and put mild American mustard on it as well. i had it anyway, and was transported to a place that was utterly remarkable! And no, it wasnt a result of salmonella...

If im at home, i'll mash up potato and have it with sauce and some veg as well.... mmmmmmmmmmmm

Ha! Same here, man, why do I read these food threads? :cry:

Read one of the Master and Commander sailing ship novels, the food they ate aboard would make today's hot dogs seem like goumet.

My Father loves those books and my Mother got him this book for one Christmas: http://www.amazon.com/Lobscouse-Spotted-Dog-Gastronomic-Companion/dp/0393320944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199251663&sr=1-1 I think you would enjoy it.

Well I was certainly exaggerating a bit, however, two things remain: since you cannot identify the cintent of hot dogs, you just have to hope that the standard of prodúction does not fail you. but in germnay we have had so many food scandals in the meat industry in the recent years, that it has really chnaged consummer behavior to a recognizable level, especially with regard to so-called Döner. Mouldy meat cannot be identified if being used for factory poizzas, döner, hot dogs, and other specialities.

and second, look at the consistency of a hot dog, or what in german is called Fleischwurst, different to ordinary bratwurst where meat and remains are shreddered. Fleischwurst (pork sausage?) really gets turned into a vicous, unidentifyable mass by adding enzymes to it, and then stoirring it, and solidifying it again. It then has gotten the consistency you now from hot dogs, and that has nothing in common with real meat. You also cannot identify what is in it, and just have to trust the manufacturer.

Preferring a simple steak from cattle, with salt, pepper and herbal butter any time, no matter if roasted or fried! Don't need no predigested meat. :lol: I'm not liking the taste of Fleischwurst/hot dog, too.

Hot-dogs?

Meh, give me a bratwurst :p

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HunterICX

I like mine grilled and Hunter keep that out too long and the ferret will have that thing!:lol:

Oh yeah mit onion, mustard und sauerkraut! Queen Victoria Market Deli hall in Melbourne is THE place for a Sunday morning Bratwurst:
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Microwaved or grilled, depending on what I have time for.

Real traditional sausages. :up:

Hot dogs. :down:

Yes I worked a bit in a slaughterhouse (collected fetal blood for cancer research as there are no antibodies to make a nice serum to grow cancer cells in lab...don't ask how I collected it) saw the scraps they scraped from the cattle heads which were hung on hooks. I didn't eat meat for a week or so afterwards. Then took some home, not hot dogs though.

True. Sausages can be delicious, and are made of grinded meat. Ideally, dedicated meat, no leftovers. Hot dog is a blind flight in the lab.

Only rarely I eat meat, and when then I am buying it from a bio-farmer cooperation where they manually slaughter themselves. It is already an ethical compromise, but what is done with animals in regular slaughterhouses where they are grabbed by machines and get automatically killed (turkey, chicken), and cattle panicks when being lead around and brought into the killing box and smelling all the panic sweat and blood around, I find totally unacceptable. It is a nightmare like being designed by HR giger, so I do not support it and do not buy it. One of the shadow sides of our mass civilisation, which puts man at shame.

I repeatedly noted that little children standing at the meat desk in a warehouse and they also sell living fish, trouts for example, the kids sometimes demand their mother not to buy fish when they see the salesman grabbing a fish from the tub and killing it. many people have been raised by thinking animal meat is what they see in the refrigerator, nice and clean packed in plastic boxes. If being led around in a slaughterhouse, many would stop eating meat from that source, I'm sure. It is in a literal sense truly meat from hell.

Also I think you should not eat fish or meat if you have doubts you could kill that animal by your own hands, with a knife, if it wouldn't already have been done by somebody before you.