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.

When visiting mom: Broiled in the oven.

When at home (which is 95% of the time): NUKE 'EM in the Microwave.
Paper plate, 45 seconds, no clean-up. Can't beat it.

Now you know why they say "Never ask what it's made of." :)

Ain't gonna read all the posts. Would make me toooo hungry.:yep:


Only use BEEF tube steaks and cook them in BEER.:D

Thats not that bad any of the Brits ever had that Christmas stuff you see in movies; they call it "The Pudding" but it doesn't look like pudding at all.

I grill my franks at home, roast them over an open fire when I go camping.