# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/41 "2008-12-25T22:48:37Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > 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. I’ve been known to eat liver, natural sausage casings (intestines and with haggis the stomach) and make stew form bones, gizzards, lungs, bones and hearts of various critters. Some of us westerners aren’t restricted to “skeletal muscle”. For making broth some of the other bits are actually better than skeletal muscle. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/42 "2008-12-25T22:54:27Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > penis to bolus- turd to turd Flock to the Lord Or you’re Satan’s herd. ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/43 "2008-12-25T23:39:59Z")
> [@NineToTheSky\* (Location: UK)](#): > > How can anyone even countenance eating a hot dog? I see your hot dog\*\* and raise you one black pudding. \*Paging Dr. Freud! \*\*Again ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/44 "2008-12-25T23:55:07Z")
Eric Schlosser writes an interesting description of how slaughter houses work. He focuses on ground beef, where they throw in the parts of about 12 cows into the grinder, so that even if only one is contaminated, the whole batch is. I know that that doesn’t happen very often though, but he emphasized that they try to use as much of the carcass as possible, and in some places even use the rendered stuff to make feed for other cattle (maybe not in the U.S. anymore). People eat cannibal cows. However, whenever I go back to Berkeley, I must stop at Top Dog and have a Polish sausage or bratwurst. (I suppose it’s nostalgia, too.) Those things they sell at supermarkets or at sporting events are tasteless, even Dodger Dogs. And supermarket buns are just another form of Wonder Bread. If you’re going to eat a hot dog, at least eat one that tastes good. If you’re want to go by FDA labeling, they have some pretty fast and easy guidelines. A “natural flavoring” can be something that would never occur in nature. And you can put any kind of Freudian frame around the shape of many foods. As said above, they just want to use as must of the animal as possible, so the intestines were perfect for stuffing all that stuff that fell on the floor. Read _The Jungle_, and _Fast Food Nation_. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/45 "2008-12-25T23:56:40Z")
**Hockey Monkey** , you are _bad_. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/46 "2008-12-26T00:10:19Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > 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. [The tendon of the hip](http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Genesis_32#21) isn’t kosher, but removing it is a lot of work. It’s cheaper to just sell cow’s asses to the goyim. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/47 "2008-12-26T02:32:16Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > If you ever read the label, you’d know that generally, what’s in it is skeletal muscle. AKA meat. Not lungs and esophagusssuses. Yeah, I can do you one better, I’ve spent time in the Vienna Beef factory and it is the cleanest place I’ve ever entered that made and served food. This includes restaurants. The meat they use is all beef, ground and seasoned and put in a natural casing. The end cuts, the extra parts etc are sprayed with this green crap and sent away to god knows where. I dig a good hot dog, covered in mustard, neon relish and diced onions. Especially in the bleachers at Wrigley with a cold Old Style. Sigh. I miss summer. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/48 "2008-12-26T05:37:29Z")
Here’s a question… are lambskin condoms “Kosher” for Jews? Is there a rabinnical decree on lambskin condoms? Are they halal? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/49 "2008-12-26T05:56:30Z")
Or you could cut [straight to the chase.](http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/penisstew.htm) Seize the bull by the horns, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/50 "2008-12-26T06:17:38Z")
I simply don’t have a problem with the hierarchy of meat. Eat me if you can, but since I have guns and stuff, I’ll eat you instead, and by the way, even the stuff that’s squeeged off the cutting room floor from your carcass has a nice flavor when shaped into a tube and placed on a rotating meat station. Baseball would never be the same, also. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/51 "2008-12-26T07:21:58Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > That said the cheap hot dogs are nasty. I prefer romen noodles to those. Are you implying that ramen noodles are not the absolute epitome of cheap, delicious, and lethally salty things? :dubious: Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**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 26, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/52 "2008-12-26T07:34:30Z")
Why choose betwen the two? I can’t be the only one who occasionally cuts up a couple of hot dogs into a bowl of ramen noodles. Douse with sriracha sauce and that’s some good eating. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/53 "2008-12-26T07:54:16Z")
Heh, that reminds me of a radio skit I heard talking about the “serving suggestion” of adding strips of grilled chicken to ramen noodles. The gist of it was, “If I could afford grilled chicken strips, I wouldn’t be eating freaking ramen noodles!” 😛 ETA: But no, I have never put anything in ramen noodles except the standard flavoring package (but that spicy kind you can buy at Asian specialty stores is _good_). I do always put Tabasco on my hot dogs, though. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/54 "2008-12-26T10:51:05Z")
When I cook ramen noodles I _throw away_ the “flavor” packet that comes with them and use bullion (usually chicken, but I have also used beef and homemade dashi). But yeah, I’ve sliced up a hot dog into the noodles, can be surprisingly good. More typically, I add some vegees, like a green onion and bok choy, or maybe some spinach or turnip greens. Not those unidentifiable freeze-dried lumps in instant ramen noodles but real vegees. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/55 "2008-12-26T14:47:41Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Are you implying that ramen noodles are not the absolute epitome of cheap, delicious, and lethally salty things? :dubious: > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris I’m implying they’re better then some hot dogs if you’re broke. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/56 "2008-12-26T15:13:58Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > The same sheep intestines they stuffed meat into Stuffing meat into wrapper? Check. > [@devilsknew](#): > > were also used as condoms. Stuffing meat into wrapper? Check. I see a pattern here. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/57 "2008-12-26T16:28:38Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > When I cook ramen noodles I _throw away_ the “flavor” packet that comes with them and use bullion (usually chicken, but I have also used beef and homemade dashi). But yeah, I’ve sliced up a hot dog into the noodles, can be surprisingly good. > > More typically, I add some vegees, like a green onion and bok choy, or maybe some spinach or turnip greens. Not those unidentifiable freeze-dried lumps in instant ramen noodles but real vegees. My local Walmart sells bullion that comes in a little bottle you have to keep refrigerated. Damn that stuff is good. Just like a half a teaspoon and it’s good to go. You know, come to think of it when I was really poor I would put damn near anything in ramen noodles. Hot dogs, tomatoe sauce, salsa. I would just call it something different. You know, like ramen Itailino, ramen Mexican style, etc. It was all good. Still is. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/58 "2008-12-26T17:35:34Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Why choose betwen the two? I can’t be the only one who occasionally cuts up a couple of hot dogs into a bowl of ramen noodles. Douse with sriracha sauce and that’s some good eating. Yes, you can. \ ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/59 "2008-12-26T18:17:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > 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. And cole slaw. Never eat a hot dot without cole slaw. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645/60 "2008-12-26T18:31:59Z")
Many brands of hot dogs are quite good without popping them in the microwave. I recall one brand I had that was _better_ cold. You can have my tubes of ground-up noses, tails, and butts when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-from-cock-to-turd/478645.md?page=4)