On the History Channel there is a segment (pun intended) of Modern Marvels
devoted to hot dog/ sausage making. Ranges from small family run specialty
sausage to humongous modern plants. It was pretty much what I expected about
the process but I won't let my kids watch fearing revolt at the dinner
table.
Charlie
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/1/2010 3:11 PM, NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > There isn't much waste from a packing plant, so I've always figured
> wieners were made from undesirable parts. You can use your imagination on
> that one.
> >
> > Here is a hint. It might rhyme with your favorite fishing place. Try
> bass hole. The thought of what else might go in them makes me shudder.
> And shudder rhymes with another part that is probably ground up and
> infused with enough garlic powder to mask the taste. So there you go.
> Grill um, deep fat fry them and drown them in mustard. Good stuff.
> >
> > Bill "Who tries not to think about it when I'm eating it" Barber
>
> LOL! I had the fun many years ago of touring two sausage plants. In the
> big, modern one, we could look down from a
> walkway into the giant vat of pinkish stuff being slowly stirred as it fed
> down to the automatic stuffer that made hot
> dogs. Interesting to watch the plastic casing fly out at high speed, go
> through the in-line cooker, then through the
> skinner that slit the skin and spit out finished 'dogs'. That fine line
> along one side of your dog is from the skinner.
>
> The older plant was a bit more graphic, as they ground up various bits to
> create all kinds of specialty sausages. They
> were all filled, twisted, etc. by hand and many smoked in rooms with
> sawdust burners right there. Cooool!
>
> then we were treated to a lunch featuring, you guessed it, the products of
> the plants. Several of the folks I was with
> had no appetite for them. I tucked in. I wasted to eating space on the
> hotdogs, but enjoyed some excellent specialty
> sausages.
>
> Eat It All Moose
>
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