# Hot dogs - from cock to turd **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 25, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645 "2008-12-25T11:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/21 "2008-12-25T17:17:16Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > If you ever read the label, you’d know that generally, what’s in it is skeletal muscle. While that is, in fact, the FDA standard for labeling of “all,” “pure” and “100% beef” products, I’ve never once seen it explicitly spelled out on a label. So, explain to me how reading one is going to elucidate this fact for him? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/22 "2008-12-25T17:25:57Z")
Really the penile resemblance is just incidental to a filled animal intestine. Biology has lots of tubes. So it goes from seminal bolus to bolus… not penis to bolus- turd to turd. The same sheep intestines they stuffed meat into were also used as condoms. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/23 "2008-12-25T17:46:00Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > The same sheep intestines they stuffed meat into were also used as condoms. This, believe it or not, played a major part in my life. But that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/24 "2008-12-25T18:29:25Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > If your hot dogs look like your shit, I think it’s time you consider a different retailer. Never mind that, if his cock looks like a turd he should see a doctor. Chocolate pudding looks like shit, lemonade looks like piss, and many kinds of condiments and salad dressing look like one bodily secretion or another. Most of us recognize this and get over it while our ages are in single digits. > [@guizot](#): > > “All beef” could mean they throw in the tail. Not if it’s kosher. They use only the front part of the bovine animal. > [@SmartAleq](#): > > Oh hon, the tail is nothing, tails are tasty, especially in soup. No, it’s the lips and the donuts and the pizzles and the other even less savory parts that have me looking askance at the tube steak section of the grocery store. I believe those would be “beef byproducts” and would need to be clearly labeled as such (in areas where the U.S. FDA has jurisdiction). ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/25 "2008-12-25T18:43:03Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > I believe those would be “beef byproducts” and would need to be clearly labeled as such (in areas where the U.S. FDA has jurisdiction). This only applies to goods packaged for consumer use. Food service establishments do not have to disclose ingredients on their menus. When you order a frank at Vito’s Dog Stand, you have no idea what you’re getting. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/26 "2008-12-25T18:46:40Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Never mind that, if his cock looks like a turd he should see a doctor. You ought to see what comes out when I shit. Wanders away, humming ‘It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It’s Raining Men! Amen! I’m gonna go out to run and let myself get Absolutely soaking wet! It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah! It’s Raining Men! Every Specimen! Tall, blonde, dark and lean Rough and tough and strong and mean’ ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/27 "2008-12-25T18:56:34Z")
I believe this is one instance where vegetarians come out ahead. I couldn’t eat hot dogs when I ate meat because of the…unfortunateness found within. Since quitting the stuff, I found fake hot dogs that are honestly just as good (really, the problem with most fake meat is replicating the proper texture…hot dogs are just mush anyway…) without the random body parts. To any of you who like the taste of hot dogs but get grossed out by the contents, I would strongly suggest the fake ones. Same goes for ground sausage (Gimme Lean is the best brand I have had). ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/28 "2008-12-25T19:06:15Z")
One of the guys at the farmer’s market I go to sells hot dogs made from grass-finished beef he raises himself. Very lean, no fillers, have that strong flavor you get from grass-finished beef, really need good strong mustard. (I’m one of those people who puts ketchup on normal hot dogs, but these really demonstrate the need for mustard.) Definitely an acquired taste (and definitely expensive), but they do show that a hot dog really can be a respectable form of sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/29 "2008-12-25T19:07:20Z")
Wow… Apparently Freud lives on. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/30 "2008-12-25T19:10:09Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Apparently Freud lives on. Yeah, but even he said, “Sometimes a penis is just a hot dog.” Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/31 "2008-12-25T19:12:56Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Really the penile resemblance is just incidental to a filled animal intestine. As a character says in the underrated little Danish movie called “The Green Butchers”, sausage-making is the ultimate demonstration of Man’s dominance over animals. Not being satisfied with merely killing an animal for food, before we eat it, we shove it up its own ass. (Yes, it’s a rather dark comedy. What made you ask?) Anyhoo, loves me some hot dogs. And yes, I know what’s in them. Butchering is indelicate, be it for sirloin or hot dogs. If you’re going to eat an animal, at least eat all of it. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/32 "2008-12-25T19:13:55Z")
Fuck off. Hot dogs are awesome. They’re actually one of my favorite foods in the world. A perfect little combination of fat and salt. There’s no vegetable in the world that’s as good as a hot dog. A choice between some vegetarian plate of weeds and grass and a big, delicious Chicago style hot dog piled his with oinions and peppers and tomatoes and celery salt is no choice at all. Mmmmmmmmm…hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/33 "2008-12-25T19:36:18Z")
How many women here have had a sheep’s intestine in their pussy? Raise your hands. I bet **9 to the sky** , has an interesting story about Pussies and lamb intestines. Now that’s full circle. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/34 "2008-12-25T19:40:15Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Wow… > > Apparently Freud lives on. Second that. Our OP has _way_ too much imagination. Hell, I was a finicky eater, but nothing like this. (Course, when I was a child penises and vaginas simply didn’t exist. Well, vaginas, anyway. And my penis was just a peeshooter.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/35 "2008-12-25T19:47:51Z")
All this talk about sheepskin condoms make me wonder if **Hal** …? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/36 "2008-12-25T19:58:08Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Not if it’s kosher. They use only the front part of the bovine animal. > I believe those would be “beef byproducts” and would need to be clearly labeled as such (in areas where the U.S. FDA has jurisdiction). Is that really true? Anything in the Biblical text to support that or is that a rabbinical thing? I saw the Hebrew National commercial & I can’t think of any reason that meat from the back half, not counting pooper & genitalia, would be considered non-kosher. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/37 "2008-12-25T20:00:11Z")
[You haven’t lived until you’ve made it with a sheep!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldHK3yGPZ0) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/38 "2008-12-25T20:12:24Z")
All I know is that it sounds like the OP didn’t get a turkey dinner for Christmas… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/39 "2008-12-25T20:54:08Z")
There are plenty of people who get grossed out by good cuts of meat, and there are plenty of people who happily eat animal bits far more suspect than sphincters. In fact, I wonder why westerners generally only eat the skeletal muscle of animals. I’m sure that all kinds of guts are quite tasty if you’ve acquired the taste for them. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/40 "2008-12-25T22:00:57Z")
Yeah, someone was in here the other day talking about deer eyes. Oh wait, those were buckeyes! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645.md?page=3)