Do hotdogs have eyeballs in them?

It's literally what it sounds like. Meat removed from the bones of an animal's head, which may include the cheeks. Unless the hot dog ingredients include the label "byproducts" or "variety meats," it won't contain meat from the snout or lips. It also won't include eyes or brains... so that makes it better?
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Are there cow eyeballs in hot dogs?

They may contain pig snout, lips, heart, kidney, liver, and stomach, but these must be individually named in the ingredients statement on the label. Contrary to what you might have heard, crushed bones, eyeballs, and testicles are not allowed. Some brands contain only beef, water, spices, and sodium nitrite.
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What is actually in hot dogs?

What are hot dogs made of? Hot dogs are made from the emulsified meat trimmings of chicken, beef, or pork. This meat mixture is blended with other ingredients (like preservatives, spices, and coloring) into a batter-like substance.
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Do hot dogs have Buttholes in them?

For the record, no, hot dogs don't contain anus. But pig anus may seem like a more appetizing option when compared with the latest hot dog accusation.
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What animal parts are in hot dogs?

After the steaks, chops, breasts, ribs, thighs, hams, tenderloins and briskets are removed, there's a fair amount of gristle, fat and offal remaining on a butchered animal, and early on, people realized this could be put to good use. One of these products is the hot dog, a classic of pre-cooked, processed meat.
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Are brains in hot dogs?

It's literally what it sounds like. Meat removed from the bones of an animal's head, which may include the cheeks. Unless the hot dog ingredients include the label "byproducts" or "variety meats," it won't contain meat from the snout or lips. It also won't include eyes or brains... so that makes it better?
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Are there genitals in hot dogs?

No matter what you may have heard there are no ears, snouts or genitals in your hot dogs. So what is there? Hot dogs can be made from the edible parts of beef, veal, lamb, pork or poultry. This can include tongue, heart, esophagus and blood.
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Are pig lips in hot dogs?

It's true that skin, fat and gristly parts (like, well, lips) can be used in a mechanically separated slurry, but the USDA only allows a hot dog to be made with 20 percent or less mechanically separated pork. That means there's just not much in the way of snouts or lips to be had.
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What part of the cow is in hot dogs?

Most of the time, hot dogs are made with skeletal meat, which are trimmings of the same type of meat that makes ground meat, steaks and roasts. The trimmings are ground up really fine, which is what gives them that homogenous texture. Salt is added to the meat, giving the mixture a sticky texture.
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Are hot dogs made with intestines?

Because the casings on natural casings wieners are made from cleaned and processed animal intestines, they are of similar, but not exact, size. A high-speed, stainless steel chopper blends meat, spices and curing ingredients into an emulsion or batter. The emulsion is pumped and fed into a stuffer.
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How much human DNA is in a hot dog?

Clear Food, an independent company that analyzes food at the molecular level, found that 14.4 percent of the hot dogs it tested were "problematic." Clear Food reported that it found human DNA in six of the 345 samples, or 2 percent of all samples tested.
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What is pink slime in hot dogs?

What is hot dog filler made of? Hot dog filler — known to many by its unsavory nickname, pink slime — is a mix of beef, pork, meat byproducts and preservatives. Meat processors call it lean finely textured beef.
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What part of the pig is hot dog?

A hot dog is made of the remains of the pig after other parts are cut off and sold as bacon, sausage patties, and ham. However many people across the world eat hot dogs and enjoy them very much.
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Is there rat parts in hot dogs?

They May Contain Band-Aids—or Eyeballs

Some other alarming ingredients: glass shards, metal fragments, maggots, a rat leg, a piece of an eyeball, a razor, and bone fragments.
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Are hot dogs disgusting?

Hot dogs contain not only some of the most disgusting ingredients (turned into a substance resembling pink slime) but also nitrates, which have been linked to Type 2 diabetes. Processed meats, including hot dogs, are also in the same carcinogenic category as cigarettes and increase your risk of cancer.
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What is the slimy stuff on hot dogs?

That slime is grease that has radiated to the outside of the dog. this happens with processed "meat" products. It is somewhat sticky and grotesque, but not lethal, but I would not make a meal of this slime. The dogs were also entering old age, so best not to eat them.
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Why should you not eat hot dogs?

It's a dangerous trend. The World Health Organization has determined that processed meat is a major contributor to colorectal cancer, classifying it as “carcinogenic to humans.” Just 50 grams—about one hot dog—consumed daily increases colorectal cancer risk by 18%.
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What animal parts are in bologna?

While mortadella typically uses meat from the back and cheek of the pig, bologna's makeup consists of what's known as "raw skeletal muscle" — and other raw meat byproducts, such as the heart, kidney, or liver of the pig.
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Why do hot dogs turn green?

ITS WHY THEY'RE CALLED DIRTY WATER DOGS

Dirty water dogs come from the process of – water sapping out the flavor and color from dogs. As more and more hot dogs are boiled – the water becomes dirty looking.
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Do hot dogs have bugs in them?

The extra “ingredients” that have shown up in hot dogs include worms, maggots, rodent parts, glass shards, a lock washer, and a Band-Aid. One person even reported finding an intact dragonfly in one.
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What were the original pigs in a blanket?

Historically it was a sausage or sausage meat in bread dough, replaced nowadays with puff pastry.
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What's in Oscar Mayer hot dogs?

Once opened, use within 7 days. Ingredients Mechanically Separated Turkey, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Water, Cultured Dextrose (Ingredients Used to Support Quality), Contains Less than 2% of Dextrose, Salt, Corn Syrup, Distilled White Vinegar, Cultured Celery Juice, Sodium Phosphate, Cherry Powder, Flavor.
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Do hot dogs contain blood?

“The U.S. does not allow blood,” he says. “Skin is not allowed as it has no muscle tissue and thus does not qualify as a muscle trimming. In effect, almost all U.S. hot dogs are made with just meat.” So, sorry, there aren't any pig anuses in hot dogs.
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Are worms used in hot dogs?

Erythorbate is a perfectly safe substance and has absolutely nothing to do with earthworms. It makes a lot more sense to minimize hot dog and baloney consumption because of their high fat and salt content than because they contain sodium erythorbate.
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