August 16, 2013

What's in a hot dog?

Hot dog! by sarae
From the excellent article“Applying morphologic techniques to evaluate hotdogs”:
“Hotdog ingredient labels are misleading; most brands are more than 50% water by weight. The amount of meat in most brands comprised less than 10% of the cross-sectional surface area. More expensive brands generally had more meat. All hotdogs contained other tissue types (bone and cartilage) not related to skeletal muscle; brain tissue was not present.” (Photo by sarae.)

2 comments:

  1. I like hotdogs too much to find out what goes into 'em! Ah, the deliciousness of bone, cartilage and anuses!

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  2. Joseph, you have successfully suppressed my appetite!

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No bad words, thanks!