Hot dog / frankfurter

Regy53

Regy53

Regy53

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Guys,

Is it actually possible to buy a frankfurter from a supermarket that is not made from mechanically removed and reformed meat? Every packet I look at seems to be made this way and it turns my stomach. I also never knew that they were made this way until a few years ago.

I now rarely eat anything from packets / tins also supermarket pies. The thought of where the meat comes from really puts me off.

Ross
 
you could opt for quorn hotdogs, never had them but i know they are available

alternativly have a word with a butcher and see if they could make you some long real sausages
 
Yea, if you want that sort of style, the UK isn't great for it. Germany and over here are, as that's their main type of sausage. So less bums and ears in them.
 
I've seen a wider variety of hot dogs etc in Lidl/Aldi - they stock a lot of european products and there's a few polish and german vac packed sausages available.
 
That's a good point, those sorts of places would be a great shout to try. Weirdly, they're not seen as poor supermarkets over here. I don't think anywhere I've been has a class system in their supermarkets like the UK does!

Which obviously sucks, because I can't highlight my superiority in the supermarket... jk! :P
 
I've had Quorn ones fairly recently and they're alright, nothing special, they've nailed the taste down pretty well but they do get rather dry especially with a bun too.

There is 1 quorn alternative I do find awesome though and that's their cocktail sausages, sooo much tastier than the real cocktail sausages and I used to devour them all the time. Just a shame they cost so much.
 
I don't really care what part goes in to my food as long as it tastes ok and won't kill me :P Better to make use of all the parts of the animal than waste stuff :)
 
Phal said:
I don't really care what part goes in to my food as long as it tastes ok and won't kill me :P Better to make use of all the parts of the animal than waste stuff :)
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really? thats not for me.

I enjoy the taste of these cheap reformed / mechanically removed things but the taste is there not because of the meat, but because of the flavors and so on they add.

OK this is in a lot of things these days but its the scum of the scum. They can make taste without the meat. So they only add the meat to call it a sausage or frankfurter or whatever.

I am by no means a vegetarian, in fact I love meat ( no sigs please!!!), I just rather knowing what i am eating is not rubbish parts of the animal, with lots of flavors.
 
Regy53 said:
really? thats not for me.

I enjoy the taste of these cheap reformed / mechanically removed things but the taste is there not because of the meat, but because of the flavors and so on they add.

OK this is in a lot of things these days but its the scum of the scum. They can make taste without the meat. So they only add the meat to call it a sausage or frankfurter or whatever.

I am by no means a vegetarian, in fact I love meat ( no sigs please!!!), I just rather knowing what i am eating is not rubbish parts of the animal, with lots of flavors.
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It depends on what you classify as 'rubbish parts of the animal'. The idea of reclaimed meat isn't a nice one I agree, but there's also a lot of silly squeamishness when it comes to animal parts that aren't the usual boring old cuts of meat.
 
FrenchTart said:
It depends on what you classify as 'rubbish parts of the animal'. The idea of reclaimed meat isn't a nice one I agree, but there's also a lot of silly squeamishness when it comes to animal parts that aren't the usual boring old cuts of meat.
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for me, anything mechanical removed is looking grim. Anything with eyes, ears, noses, tails and so on also looks grim lol.

I do not like waste and if we can product items from mechanically removed meat that's great. however don't market a product to be something when it really isn't.
 
Regy53 said:
for me, anything mechanical removed is looking grim. Anything with eyes, ears, noses, tails and so on also looks grim lol.

I do not like waste and if we can product items from mechanically removed meat that's great. however don't market a product to be something when it really isn't.
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Getting the most out of your dead animals isn't really a new thing and whilst the methods have changed, I don't personally have a problem with it.

Whether you boil the carcass so that the remaining bits of meat simply fall off or whether you get a machine to get as much meat as possible seems similar in my eyes. My mum made some great chicken soup by boiling what was rest of the bird and having all those tasty bits of chicken fall off into all those random bird juices :D

I agree about the clear marketing though, they should definitely be honest about what is packaged and how it's made.
 
Beef hotdogs? :| If those are anything like Beef sausages I've had before then sod that lol :P
 
M+s "posh dogs" might be worth a try

I like the cheap, chilled bratwurst in packs (not jars) that you can find in most supermarkets. Warm them up in beer and sliced onions at just under a simmer, then BBQ quickly or fry to brown them up
 
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