The wife usually buys all beef Hebrew National or Oscar Meyer hot dogs but wasn’t paying attention and grabbed a pack of OM pork hot dogs.

Let me just say...YUUUUUCK!

It’s been years since I’ve eaten a cheap, pork hot dog and had forgotten all about the disgusting texture and crappy flavor of them.

No thanks, it’s all-beef hot dogs for me. The texture and flavor are FAR better!

Beef.

Pork is for pork chops, bacon, and ribs. And tenderloin. And I guess ham.

But not hot dogs!

Ball Park brand beef hot dogs are passable, but the chicken/pork ones are disgusting. I threw out a package of them after choking down one. They had an odd chemical-like taste to them. And with any hot dog, you don't want to dwell too long on how they are made.

I'm just about at the point where the only hot dogs I'll eat are Nathan's and Vienna Beef. No ketchup, of course.

If you want a real treat in disgusting hotdogs, try gwualtney. GROSS.

Beef is the only way to go in hot dogs. I like the angus beef ball park ones.

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If you want a real treat in disgusting hotdogs, try gwualtney. GROSS.

Bar S, too. There's a reason why those two brands are so cheap.

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If you want a real treat in disgusting hotdogs, try gwualtney. GROSS.

Bar S, too. There's a reason why those two brands are so cheap.

Hoffy, Bar S, Ball Park, Oscar Meyer, any supermarket house brand....they're simply nitrate tubes that taste awful. It's remarkable that people continue to eat that shit.

I've gotten to the point in life where, if I'm gonna buy a sausage or, Polish (I don't do hot dogs any more), it's gonna be quality. Best general eating dogs/Polishes I like are from Miller's or Costco, with sausages from Johnsonville or, Aidell's chicken-apple. With Octoberfest promotions coming up soon, I'm looking forward to getting some Olympia Provision sausages, especially their Kasekrainer and brats.

Well, I don't care for Nathan's hot dogs--Hebrew National are fine. I typically buy Ballpark all-beef bun-size dogs. Yellow mustard only.

flashguy

Aldi now carries Nathan’s and the price is by far the lowest that I have seen.

Our local grocery store recently had Oscar Mayer HD's (pork) on sale so I purchased a couple packages. I have to agree with PASig (and others) that they taste terrible....I usually buy Nathans all beef, but thought the OM's were a deal. All I can say is NEVER AGAIN! Nathans all beef all the way.

I have 2 country stores within a 5-6 mile radius of the house

one does an awesome chili and onion dog,

the other, an awesome slaw dog,

both use some generic jumbo pack hotdog, I think they get them from the swann's guy (sells meat and novelties from a truck)

no idea if they are beef, pork, turkey, chicken or all or none of the above,
however a day off lunch, 2 dogs and a cold beer,,

damn tasty

My local Samsclub sells Nathans beef dogs at a good price which gets even better when they have one of their $2 off sales. They come in 3 lb packages of a dozen.

I stopped eating hotdogs. None of them are good to me.
I don't know sausages well enough to buy them.

Yeah, OM hotdogs are shit, they use the rooter to the tooter on those. It's not because of the pork, my favorites are Koegel Vienna's. They are a pork, beef mix.

I bought some turkey hot dogs a couple of years ago, or maybe they were chicken. Not even the foxes and raccoons would eat them.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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If you want a real treat in disgusting hotdogs, try gwualtney. GROSS.

Bar S, too. There's a reason why those two brands are so cheap.

Hoffy, Bar S, Ball Park, Oscar Meyer, any supermarket house brand....they're simply nitrate tubes that taste awful. It's remarkable that people continue to eat that shit.

I've gotten to the point in life where, if I'm gonna buy a sausage or, Polish (I don't do hot dogs any more), it's gonna be quality. Best general eating dogs/Polishes I like are from Miller's or Costco, with sausages from Johnsonville or, Aidell's chicken-apple. With Octoberfest promotions coming up soon, I'm looking forward to getting some Olympia Provision sausages, especially their Kasekrainer and brats.

Oscar Meyer stopped putting in nitrate/nitrites in their dogs.
With drive, determination, and delicious high-quality meat, we made a better hot dog for all.
We cut out artificial preservatives, added nitrates and nitrites* and by-products, leaving room for more of the high-quality taste you love.

*Except those naturally occurring in celery juice.

Here in Colorado, the Costco’s have Bison hot dogs. They are soooo good!

https://highplainsbison.com

Also, some 100% grass fed beef hotdogs. Outstanding!

https://www.tetonwatersranch.com

I like Sabrett, Nathan's, and Hebrew National. My favorite is Nathan's Coney Island Beef Franks with the natural casing. As an aside, Oscar Meyer now claims that it is discontinuing using nitrates in their hotdogs.


nero

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Oscar Meyer stopped putting in nitrate/nitrites in their dogs.
With drive, determination, and delicious high-quality meat, we made a better hot dog for all.
We cut out artificial preservatives, added nitrates and nitrites* and by-products, leaving room for more of the high-quality taste you love.

*Except those naturally occurring in celery juice.

They can say that all day long, but the nitrates found in celery juice are the same exact thing chemically as what was used before.

I always have a chuckle at the people paying exorbitant prices for all these trendy "UNCURED" hot dogs and bacon. It's just as cured as before! Without curing, it's not a hot dog or bacon, plain and simple.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by rtquig:

Oscar Meyer stopped putting in nitrate/nitrites in their dogs.
With drive, determination, and delicious high-quality meat, we made a better hot dog for all.
We cut out artificial preservatives, added nitrates and nitrites* and by-products, leaving room for more of the high-quality taste you love.

*Except those naturally occurring in celery juice.

They can say that all day long, but the nitrates found in celery juice are the same exact thing chemically as what was used before.

I always have a chuckle at the people paying exorbitant prices for all these trendy "UNCURED" hot dogs and bacon. It's just as cured as before! Without curing, it's not a hot dog or bacon, plain and simple.

I stand corrected.

Such terminology is confusing because most consumers look to “organic” processed meats in order to avoid nitrites, but the fact is that these do contain nitrites, sometimes in lesser, sometimes in greater amounts than found in conventional products. That’s because the amount of nitrite that forms from nitrate in celery juice is hard to monitor, while in conventionally cured processed meats, the addition of nitrite is strictly controlled by regulations designed to minimize nitrosamine formation and maximize protection against botulism. This means any risk due to nitrosamine formation or bacterial contamination in the “organic” version is more challenging to evaluate.
So what does all of this mean? Basically, that buying “organic” hot dogs or bacon with a view towards living longer by avoiding nitrites makes no sense. Limiting such foods because of their high fat and salt content, whether organic or conventional, makes very good sense. Cutting them out totally, as the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine would have us do? No thanks. Remember that it is unrealistic to evaluate every bite of food as being “healthy” or “unhealthy!” It is the overall diet that matters. It is possible to avoid cured meats completely and still have a terrible diet while one can have a healthy diet by occasionally indulging in these tasty morsels. Emphasize a mostly plant-based diet? By all means. But dogmatic tirades against hot dogs? That’s ideology, not science.