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.
Flock to the Lord
Or you’re Satan’s herd.
I see your hot dog** and raise you one black pudding.
*Paging Dr. Freud!
**Again
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.
Hockey Monkey, you are bad.
The tendon of the hip isn’t kosher, but removing it is a lot of work. It’s cheaper to just sell cow’s asses to the goyim. 
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.
Here’s a question… are lambskin condoms “Kosher” for Jews? Is there a rabinnical decree on lambskin condoms? Are they halal?
Or you could cut straight to the chase. Seize the bull by the horns, as it were.
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.
Are you implying that ramen noodles are not the absolute epitome of cheap, delicious, and lethally salty things? :dubious:
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
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.
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.
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.
I’m implying they’re better then some hot dogs if you’re broke.
Stuffing meat into wrapper? Check.
Stuffing meat into wrapper? Check.
I see a pattern here.
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.
Yes, you can. <shudder>
And cole slaw. Never eat a hot dot without cole slaw.
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.