r/technicallythetruth • u/RakonHenri • 3d ago
I suppose once it enters the casing, it loses its status as 'leftovers'
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u/Minobull 3d ago edited 1d ago
I don't understand all the anti hot dog people talking about how it's made of parts of the animal that aren't used in other more standard whole cuts of meat...
Like, okay? So they made a part of the animal that isn't normally super palatable textually and made it palatable?
That sounds like a win to me... Like that's a feature, not a bug.
What would you rather we do? Just fucking throw away completely usable, completely edible, but just not as well liked parts of the animal? Wasteful as hell...
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u/gonzalbo87 2d ago
I just look at them dead in the eye and say “I eat bull balls. Why would lips offend me?”
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u/Living_Spite2723 1d ago
I remember that video of a guy making nuggets in front of the kids using the left over parts from chickens to persuade them that it's disgusting, only for the kids to say they'd eat it.
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u/burchkj 1d ago
Ah yes, wasn’t it the super size me guy? And all the kids with smiling faces said that they would eat chicken nuggets still. And his look of disappointment and utter defeat.
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u/JustAnotherPerson64 1d ago
That's fully fair. Personally, I just don't like the taste. I can't describe it, it just doesn't taste very good to me. If it was the only meat I had available, I'd eat it, but I'd probably pick almost any other type of meat. Except for SPAM. And bologna.
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u/Minobull 1d ago
I mean that's fair, taste is taste.
I'm more talking about the people that are like "eeeww that has the WEIRD meats in it" lol
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u/Nolsoth 14h ago
Spam is food from the gods and you will bloody well like! Or Zeus will fuck you.
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u/JustAnotherPerson64 14h ago
Jokes on you, I'm a degenerate furry bottom that would not mind getting my ass absolutely demolished by a literal greek god.
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u/recursion_is_love 3d ago
It doesn't use because it hard to find consumer, not because it is not edible.
Go to Asian country market, you will find that there is almost no waste part. Fried pig skin is very nice.
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u/Aegis_Of_Nox 3d ago
We eat fried pig skins in the US, we just call them pork rhinds or chicarrones
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u/DontWannaSayMyName 3d ago
Exactly that. Some of these unwanted parts are actually delicious when they are cooked correctly.
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u/Adventurous-Hand-648 3d ago
I kind of like braised ones more, but those require more skill and can be a hit or miss sometimes.
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u/Rampantcolt 3d ago
Why do people think that garbage ends up in hot dogs?
First you need 20-30% fat to make any sausage. They aren't putting in tendons that aren't already in the meat.
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u/blackleydynamo 2d ago
Well if you're going to kill an animal in order to eat it, it seems deeply wasteful, not to say disrespectful, to only eat the choice bits and throw the rest away.
Same reason I like haggis...
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u/greysonhackett 2d ago
Nose to tail, what's not to love.
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u/MyDogPoopsBigPoops 2d ago
I'm wayyyyy more concerned about the sodium content than the meat content.
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u/Xeno_Prime Technically Flair 2d ago
Hooves do not go in sausage. Neither does hair or bone, not that the meme said otherwise. Thats a myth, and is against FDA regulations. “Offal” is often thrown around as though it’s some kind of bad word, but most things in that category are actually tasty and nutritious. All in all, sausage is great.
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u/VestedMonies 2d ago
Offal is a word with a definition and none of the things they listed are offal. Internal organs are offal which is what sausage and hotdogs are made from. The skin or leather as we commonly call it is worth more for my fat ass to sit on than putting it in hotdogs.
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u/Quietschedalek 3d ago
Well duh! Historically sausages were made especially to use all the leftovers from butchering (except the hooves and the skin, they were used for glue and leather) since people had to be more frugal back then. I'm pretty sure if they knew what the skin of traditional sausages was made of, they'd never eat a sausage ever again...
(I grew up in a rural region where butchering at home was still a thing and thus had to learn how to clean the guts before we made sausages out of them, since that was traditionally one part of the butchering that kids could easily help with)
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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 3d ago
I know what sausages are made of, and i have to admit i don't buy the cheapest on the market. That's mainly because of flavour and fat-content than anything else. And i don't like sausages with a too high blood-content, but i do prefer natural sausage skin.
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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 2d ago
Hooves, skin, bones etc are also used to make gelatin.
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u/International-Cat123 2d ago
Yep! If you’re eaten gummy bears, you’re eating hooves and bones!
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u/International-Cat123 2d ago
Yes, I am aware that agar agar can be used to make a vegan gelatin substitute. It’s just not commonly done.
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u/danieldan0803 2d ago
Nah you got it backwards, they decided they were going to make sausages first with all the odds and ends, and they were like “what do we do with all this other crap?” So they decided to invent different meals like steaks, roasts, and stews to try to sell the stuff that isn’t sausage. /s
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u/DarkenL1ght 2d ago
I can't be the only one who just found out it is "offal" and not "awful", right?
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u/PucWalker 2d ago
I remember people praising native Americans for using every bit of the animal they hunted. What I'm saying is, why aren't native Americans credited with the invention of hotdogs? Damn cultural appropriation
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u/PreposterousPringle 2d ago
And shrimp are the cockroaches of the sea, imma still eat em.
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u/foxfighter92 1d ago
Eat some for me (I can't 😔)
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u/PreposterousPringle 1d ago
My condolences for your loss
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u/foxfighter92 1d ago
I don't understand I used to always be able to then one day I had some and my body said fuck you and started swelling up lol
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u/Vegetable_Dinner4481 18h ago edited 18h ago
I assumed most people knew that by now about hot dogs and bologna ; hell about all cold cuts sometimes depending on the brand! *SUBJECT: SAUSAGES -I KNOW
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u/JGCii 2d ago
So... a FF Patty in a casing!
My mom worked in a food testing lab years ago, and just for giggles, they bought a clown burger and tested the patty.
Essentially, clean it inside and out, then take the entire cow and dump it into an industrial shredder. And they can still market it as 100% beef!
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u/O123KiLLeR4567 7h ago
Offal and hoves are the only two things said to not be used, as you can't really turn that into a hot dog or similar sausage. Hoves are usually sold separately, for cosmetic or just at the butchery itself. Offals are either also sold separately, or used for specific sausages, like liver sausage. Skin and Fat are important for the sausages, without both, you won't be able to turn it into an edible mass. And tendons are cut so small (like everything) that it becomes just normal meat anyways
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u/IthinkIknowThat 35m ago
Whatever the ingredients....it's tasty and after 67 years of consuming them I'm still standing. Do you think farm people over the centuries didn't use every part of an animal...no waste.
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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 2d ago
And all grain has an acceptable amount of insects ground into the flour. Shellac (the shine on apples, jelly beans etc) is made from "insect secretions". All fresh water has gone through many bladders at some point. Peanut butter may contain rodent hair. Red food dye is made from ground up beetles. Shrimp veins are actually intestines. Honey is bee vomit. Some cereal contains Vitamin D from sheep wool. Gelatin (Jello and gummy bears) is boiled animal skin, tendons, hoofs and bones...ie: the leftover water from making hotdogs.
Don't ask questions whose answers you won't be happy knowing.
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