DailyDirt: Hot Dogs!

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Fri, May 18th 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

The weather is warming up, and backyard barbecues are getting dusted off. What's easier to grill than a good old hot dog? Absolutely nothing. Here are just a few links to get you in the mood for some delicious dogs.

The Brits have outdone themselves with a new culinary creation: Pizza Hut UK has created a hot dog stuffed pizza crust. American ingenuity just isn't what it used to be. [url]
If you're really into hot dogs with plentiful toppings, just check out some MLB ballparks. Warning: if you don't like hot dogs, this is a slideshow of more than 20 hot dogs smothered in condiments that'll probably make you sick. [url]
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is trying to get people to stop eating hot dogs... with scary billboards that suggest hot dogs are deadly. Some of the billboard ads look like parodies of anti-smoking campaigns, so it's difficult to take them too seriously (though the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council isn't laughing). [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: ballparks, food, hot dogs, pizza, toppings
Companies: national hot dog & sausage council, physicians committee for responsible medicine, pizza hut

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Anonymous Coward, 18 May 2012 @ 5:05pm

The Brits have outdone themselves with a new culinary creation: Pizza Hut UK has created a hot dog stuffed pizza crust.

Holy shit! Stupidity gazumped! The KFC (Kentucky Fried Chemical) Corporation must be bustin' a nut!
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Rekrul, 18 May 2012 @ 5:18pm

The Brits have outdone themselves with a new culinary creation: Pizza Hut UK has created a hot dog stuffed pizza crust.

I like hot dogs, but somehow the thought of having one inside a pizza crust just doesn't appeal to me. I mean, when I'm eating pizza, I want it to taste like pizza. If I wanted a hot dog, I'd order a hotdog. Just like when I want a hot dog, I don't want mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce on it.
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- Michael Ho (profile), 18 May 2012 @ 5:27pm
  
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  I'm sure someone out there has tried hot dog bits as a pizza topping... and I'm sure someone has also created a hot dog with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, too.
  
  Personally, I think I'd prefer a higher-end sausage of some kind instead of a hot dog in my pizza crust.
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  - Rekrul, 19 May 2012 @ 11:38am
    
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    Yes! If it was stuffed with Italian sausage rather than hotdogs, I'd probably like it.
    
    To be fair, the only stuffed crust I've ever tried had mozzarella inside it and while I had no objection to the use of cheese, the cheese and bread together with no sauce made it kind of dry.
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orbitalinsertion (profile), 18 May 2012 @ 7:20pm

Some of the billboard ads look like parodies of anti-smoking campaigns, so it's difficult to take them too seriously (though the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council isn't laughing).

They could just put up billboards of the hot dog-stuffed pizza crust instead...
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Pixelation, 18 May 2012 @ 10:02pm

I don't eat hot dogs anymore. Especially after my grandfather's comment..."They have to do something with the lips and assholes".
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AB, 19 May 2012 @ 8:27am

Janet Riley, president of the hot dog council, said in a statement that hot dogs are "part of a healthy, balanced diet"

Now I don't know which side is worse!

It is fairly well established that cheap processed meats are 'dangerously' unhealthy, and putting them on a cheap processed bun with a bunch of processed chemicals certainly doesn't improve that, but neither does it justify a vague anti-hotdog campaign.
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Anonymous Coward, 19 May 2012 @ 4:57pm

Hot dogs ARE deadly.
It's an absolute, 100% certainty that anyone who eats a hot dog will eventually die.
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