What exactly is in hotdogs? TELL ME IT ALL!?

Question

I've always been curious.

Everytime I ask someone "Whats in hotdogs."

They go "Everything."

Thats not telling me nothing! Please tell me exactly whats in hotdogs and why people find them so dicusting.

I love them.

But I am afraid I wont once I read this, but I probably will. Haha I dont have a weak stomach or is the type of person that looses their apetite when I hear gross stuff. SO GO AHEAD.

PLEASE DONT TELL ME, YOU DONT WANNA KNOW. I DO!!! I DONT CARE!!

Answer 1

Before the introduction of the US inspectors regulatory system, hot dogs did contain EVERYTHING, including brains! YUCK! Now, there are standard guidelines that they have to follow. Hot dogs do contain alot of fat, salt and meat "parts" not used for other things. I'd rather not eat one myself. Kosher hot dogs contain the least amount of by-products.

Answer 2

My father owned a meat market and I've seen this often. All day long, the butchers cut and trim meat. Next to each butcher's station was a big plastic bucket. As he cut and trimmed meat, he'd throw all the scraps into the bucket. At the end of the day, all the buckets were emptied into one and that's what they would use to make hot dogs and sausages. They would put the scraps through the grinder and depending on the seasonings and casings they used, they would make either hot dogs or sausages. Absolutely nothing on an animal (except maybe the teeth) is wasted. Now this is how they're made in a meat market ... like a deli. If you buy commercially prepared hot dogs, I'm sure they add all kinds of chemicals and preservatives.

That's why I don't understand why some people act like putting ketchup on a hot dog is like putting it on a Delmonico steak. A hot dog is basically garbage on a bun.

Answer 3

Think of a meat processing plant. Cutting the different cuts of meat, then everything and I mean everything that is leftover is scrapped up, ground, processed, flavored and colored and formed in a hotdog. Blood, guts, skin, brains, bone chards, veins, lips, eyes, nose, testicles, ears, hair, etc., all of it! Served on a bun with mustard and catsup. Paige B is right eat Hebrew National Brand Hotdogs, they're Kosher and can't have innards and blood and guts in them. Oh, and I've actually seen how the breaded frozen fish fillets and fishsticks are made. And it's it exact same process only with the leftovers of what is left after filleting the fish.

Answer 4

Hey great question... but I have to admit I'm not sure. But if you do find out and get grossed out, try Kosher hotdogs. I heard that they dont have all the gross stuff in em.

Answer 5

The saying is "lips, t!ts, and touch holes" The items of the cow, pig, turkey that can not be sold on the market are ground up and made into hotdogs and bologna.

Answer 6

Hot dogs are made up of processed meats. There is really no specific kind, just what is left over, so it is a mixture of pig, chicken, beef, and whatever poor creature was stupid enough to land in the food processor. Trust me, you don't want to know what else in in there, just switch to turkey dogs.

Answer 7

"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).

Answer 8

Some hot dogs are really beef. Other brands have casings made out of animal intestines (or that's the rumor I've heard).

Answer 9

I saw them being made on T.V about 1 year ago. I still can't eat a hot dog
Uncuttable meat parts(beef chicken and pork).
chunks of fat
hoof parts and ear portions
snout and there was little hairs on it
innards kidney, liver, intestine.
they add spices too.
when people say everything they mean it.

Answer 10

It depends on the type you get but you can get an all pork dog, an all beef dog, and all turkey dog, or a mix...in all of these dogs they usually put ALL parts into the dogs..that means you get everything from shoulder to butt