Let me note first of all that this post is miscategorized, but I refuse to create a "junk food" category, or a "food that should not have been invented" category. I hope I don’t see lots more like this.
Tonight at the grocery store I saw hot dogs, already in the bun, in the freezer section. They advertised on the package that they were easier that way, just needed to be heated, etc.
People, I have clearly missed something about hot dogs and buns along the way. The hard part, I mean. When I was growing up, that was one of the meals you had when you were on your way out the door to a ball game, or when both parents had meetings and the babysitter was coming. And not the regular babysitter because she was a great cook. Or we’d have hot dogs for a treat on a weekend.
So as I finished my trip through Publix, I struggled to think why it was necessary to put the hot dog in the bun, freeze it and sell it to us that way.
Here’s all I’ve thought of so far:
* Finally, the number of buns and hot dogs match.
* OK that’s all I came up with.
* Except, I’m sure that somehow Kraft [I'm pretty sure this was Oscar Meyer, but I didn't take a photo and this product is not anywhere I can find on the web...maybe it's being test-marketed.] could make more money off of us this way. If I hadn’t had hungry toddler with me, I would have price-compared this with regular hot dogs.
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HMMMM, All I can say is YUCK! I’m not so into hotdogs anyway…. Definitely not microwaved hot dogs… and Soggy Microwaved Buns that turn hard as soon as you take them out and let them cool off? Oh, I need to go right out and buy some of those! (I don’t think so…)
It just sounds crazier the more you think about it, doesn’t it??
It is an Oscar Meyer product. I haven’t tried it — and have no desire to — but I know because of the TV ads, which feature a snazzed-up version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
The thing is, I’m scared that, in order to keep the buns from turning rock hard in the microwave, they must have all kinds of strange chemicals in them.
Altho my arteries would finish clogging and soon I’d be dining on ambrosia, I sometimes yearn for a dish we ahd in high school called Angels on Horesback. A hot dog split lengthwise, with a wedge of cheddar in the split and the whole thing wrapped with a piece of bacon. I used to make them in college as a treat.