What are Wendys Hot Dogs made of?

Wendys Hot Dogs are made with a fresh, toasted bun and a premium Wendys frank or meat filling created to our own exclusive recipe. Add butter (plain, onion or garlic), tomato sauce and mild mustard, to top off a taste sensation.
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Are hot dogs made from cow Buttholes?

A recent study by Canadian pathologists set out to discover whether the grim legend is true. The good news is, it doesn't appear that hot dogs are made from "oral and anal squamous mucosa", as they're known in medical parlance.
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Are hot dogs still made with intestines?

SKINLESS, NATURAL CASING AND COLLAGEN CASING All hot dogs are made and precooked in casings, or skins. Casings are made either from collagen that is naturally present in the intestines of an animal, or from processed collagen that's extracted from other animal parts.
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Is it true that hotdogs are made of worms?

Absolutely not. But here is the question I got: "A friend told me that that ground up earthworms are being used as fillers in many meat products like wieners and bologna. The name on the package is sodium erythorbate. I've checked packages at stores here and have found only one brand without this ingredient.
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What is actually inside a hot dog?

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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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 there eyeballs in hot dogs?

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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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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Is there organ meat in hot dogs?

In reality, most hotdogs you find at a grocery store, and especially the national brands, don't contain anything close to organs. According to the USDA, hotdogs must be made of meat or poultry, and can contain more than one kind of meat.
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Is it true that hot dogs shorten your life?

Olivier Jolliet, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan, is a co-author of the new study. He tells Inverse the average hot dog has 61 grams of processed meat, which results in “27 minutes of healthy life lost due to this amount of processed meat alone.”
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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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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 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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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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Do hot dogs have blood in them?

Hot dogs can be made from the edible parts of beef, veal, lamb, pork or poultry. This can include tongue, heart, esophagus and blood. If you find that hard to stomach, I probably shouldn't tell you that they also sometimes use the stomach.
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What is pink slime in hot dogs?

"Pink slime" refers to processed lean beef trimmings, and is a cheap filler used to "beef up" many meat products. It is made by salvaging the meat that gets trimmed off cuts of beef along with fat.
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What is pink slime in meat?

“Pink slime” is a colloquial term for Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB). LFTB refers to smaller pieces of lean meat that are added to ground beef to produce a leaner product utilizing as much of meat from an animal as possible. The term “pink slime” was not developed by the food industry.
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Is plastic in hot dogs?

When cellulose casings are used, the hot dogs are of exact size and weight. They are vacuum sealed in plastic films to protect the freshness and flavor of the hot dog. Because the casings on natural casings wieners are made from cleaned and processed animal intestines, they are of similar, but not exact, size.
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Is there metal in hot dogs?

May 20, 2019 -- Vienna Beef Ltd. is recalling more than 2,000 pounds of beef hot dogs because they may be contaminated with metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday.
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Are there bones in hot dogs?

Hot dogs are made of “mechanically separated meat,” defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as “a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device.”
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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 there chicken beaks in hot dogs?

Rather, it's all the fillers that go in after the meat or poultry. "[Hot dogs] should be 100% natural, no artificial anything, species-specific," says Zimmern.
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Why you should never eat hot dogs?

Up to 80 percent of the calories in regular hot dogs come from fat, and much of it is the unhealthy saturated type. Regularly eating processed meats like hot dogs has been linked to increased risk of heart disease and colon cancer.
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What part of the pig is a hotdog?

Whether you choose beef, chicken, or pork hot dogs, chances are they're made up of a bunch of different animal parts that most wouldn't consider "prime cuts." The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines those as: "The raw meat materials used for precooked-cooked products are lower-grade ...
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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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