OK, I want the truth! What is REALLY in hot dog meat?!
OK, I want the truth! What is REALLY in hot dog meat?
I'm cringing already!
Answers: Ever thing they could not sell ......snot, guts, balls, eyes, and card board if they are made in China. The same as Soylent Green. anything left over...hoofs, fins and claws Aw, man, if you really knew you wouldn't want to eat it!
They use all the parts of the animal that they couldn't sell otherwise. pretty much all of the scraps, such as the ears, face, tail...all the icky stuff the clue is in the name Hot dogs are made of stuff that comes off the floor from the butchers yard. Yummy! it's supposed to be the trimmings left over from pork, poultry and beef. whatever it is ... it tastes pretty darn good! A lot of non-meat ingredients among other unspeakable things. I hate hot dogs. it's a dog This depends on the brand, obviously.
Soem are exactly that, lean beef. but others involve mechanically seperated mearts and thus have a higher degree of "grizzly" parts.
The USDA does allow up to 10% ground bone (bone meal) within hotdogs., but that doesn't mean most manufactures go to that standard. For example, Kosher dogs must meet different standards (like no pig products, etc.) So, it isn't exaclty what one should call "healthy." this is sooo gross. chicken, beef, and pork leftovers! People on here are ignorant. It depends GREATLY on the manufacturer of the product. I worked two years ago for a very well know company and the cuts of meats that went into the hot dogs was, I thought, a waste of good meat. I have no doubt that there are companies out there who use fillers which is the cuts of meats that aren't any good for anything else but not all companies are like that. The worst thing about the company I worked for was that the meat wasn't as lean as some of the other cuts. Just stick with the bigger companies and I am sure you will be fine. If you listen to the morons on here they will probably tell you they are really made of dogs:) no one really knows the truth. and that's why i don't EVER eat them.... "Frankfurter, Hot Dog, Wiener, or Bologna With Byproducts" or "With Variety Meats" are made according to the specifications for cooked and/or smoked sausages (see above), except they consist of not less than 15% of one or more kinds of raw skeletal muscle meat with raw meat byproducts. The byproducts (heart, kidney, or liver, for example) must be named with the derived species and be individually named in the ingredients statement.
Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM)
Mechanically separated meat is a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue Leftover dead animal parts for the most part..unless it's a kosher all beef hot dog...which I still would not eat. Try morningstar farms veggie dogs...they taste the same. According to www.sixwise.com
"All hot dogs are cured and cooked sausages that consist of mainly pork, beef, chicken and turkey or a combination of meat and poultry. Meats used in hot dogs come from the muscle of the animal and looks much like what you buy in the grocer's case. Other ingredients include water, curing agents and spices, such as garlic, salt, sugar, ground mustard, nutmeg, coriander and white pepper."
However, there are a couple of caveats. "Variety meats," which include things like liver, kidneys and hearts, may be used in processed meats like hot dogs, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that they be disclosed on the ingredient label as "with variety meats" or "with meat by-products."
Further, watch out for statements like "made with mechanically separated meats (MSM)." Mechanically separated meat is "a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue," according to the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Although the FSIS maintains that MSM are safe to eat, mechanically separated beef is no longer allowed in hot dogs or other processed meats (as of 2004) because of fears of mad cow disease. Hot dogs can contain no more than 20 percent mechanically separated pork, and any amount of mechanically separated chicken or turkey.
So if you're looking for the purest franks, pick those that are labeled "all beef," "all pork," or "all chicken, turkey, etc." Franks labeled in this way must be made with meat from a single species and do not include byproducts (but check the label anyway, just to be sure. Turkey and chicken franks, for instance, can include turkey or chicken meat and turkey or chicken skin and fat in proportion to a turkey or chicken carcass).
Hope this helps! Lips and @ssholes You're mistaken Tracy Terry. You really don't want the truth. Leave well enough alone on this one. Do you eat hot dogs? And if so do you like them? If the answers are yes (or even if it's no) then why bother with what's in them? There is a little thing called the FDA that regulates what can be put into food products, and make sure that manufacturers can't lie on the ingredient lists. So whatever the ingredient list says is in the hot dogs is whats in the hot dogs. It probably is less than savory pieces of pork/beef/chicken/turkey, but perfectly edible pieces. If it wasn't, the FDA would not allowed it to be sold. pig snouts and other things you would not normally want to eat... gross huh? You can avoid cringing by finding a good German or Polish meat store and buying their hot dogs - they taste NOTHING like commercial frankfurters/hot dogs, are very flavorful, made without vast quantities of "ick", and when you buy locally you help your local economy..