Just got a text from my wife. She was looking at her receipt from Walmart this morning and the hot dogs were listed as meat bars.
Walmart hotdogs contain meat. Who’da thunk it?
Man! I thought this was a thread was going to be about a joint where you could pull up a stool, order a steak, and commiserate about your triple bypass with the bartender.
Is it possible she’s seeing somebody else ?
/s
Yes, but then I realized there are already bars known as Meat Markets. I avoid those places because I don’t like being treated by all those desperate horny women like I’m a piece of meat.
Perhaps a bar code reader app written by someone who is not a native English speaker.
They had to change the name for legal reasons when they stopped making them out of dogs.
Shortly after reading this thread, I learned in The Atlantic that when fish sticks were invented they were part of a trend that included many rectangular food items:
The breaded curiosities were part of a lineup of newly introduced rectangular foods, which included chicken sticks, ham sticks, veal sticks, eggplant sticks, and dried-lima-bean sticks. Only the fish stick survived.
I wonder if it could possibly be “Bar S,” which is a brand of low-quality (IMHO) low-cost franks, bacon, sausages, and cold cuts. I see them mostly at Walmart, but I checked and found that they’re sold elsewhere too.
I believe you misspelled “monstrosities”. 
That’s probably it but “meat bars” is much funnier than “meat BarS.” My wife’s text just said “meat bars.” BarS is usually the cheapest. My wife has a habit of buying cheap hot dogs to feed the numerous stray, hungry cats in the neighborhood. Why is it that all the stray cats tend to congregate at our house?
One of the eternal mysteries, that one is.
As they are based in Phoenix I have memories of Bar-S products stretching back to my childhood some sixty years ago – not good ones. In a taste test of 13 dogs, they came in dead last, scoring 40 out of 100 points.
To give an idea how bad the Bar-S must have been, the number 12 pick got 30 more points, and was made out of pea and soy protein.
Dried lima bean sticks didn’t make it?!? The very name of it is making my mouth water. Must have been an idea before its time.
I want some eggplant sticks.
I remember veal sticks that my mom used to get. They weren’t anything like fishsticks. The veal sticks were ground veal with spices and some kind of crumb coating actually on a stick. I liked them when I was a kid. I haven’t seen them in decades.
There are several brands out there. Some of them are not too bad. I think there is a distinction between the small fish sticks (having a larger surface-to-volume ratio, they are more breading than fish) and the larger ones commonly labeled as “filets”, which are better. Van Kamps is a good brand, IIRC, but you have to get the larger ones (10 or 12 to the box) not the scrawny ones (30 or so to the box).
You also have to cook them right. They don’t do well in a microwave, where they tend to come out soggy.
Okay, did anyone else click this link expecting to read about how they did a taste test with actual dogs?
Because I want to see the video of that.
Dog: snarfs down hot dog in a fraction of a second
Researcher: “How would you rate the flavor of that hot dog?”
Dog: “Ummm…I was supposed to actually taste it? Can I try again?”
LOl 
