Bright Red Hot Dog Wieners

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all-beef wieners

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I don't think there is such a thing... They all have beaks and buttholes in them...

And lips.

It just depends on what you are buying. Red hot dogs are red because the casings are colored red. What the meat on the inside is depends on your brand. Some red hot dogs are actually good quality. I believe in the upper North East area, it's a specialty around there. Others are lower quality. Just depends as does any hot dog regardless of color.

Most hot dogs and sausage are made mostly from trim meat. When you have a processor cutting a cow or a pig, the meat "scraps" or miscuts get thrown together. Some companies will add whole muscle meat to the trim, while some will only use trim. There's nothing wrong with trim, depending on the fat content. Processors require a specific fat content, so they may use whole muscle meat to add more lean meat to their meat block.

Meat trim is labeled as "pork" or "beef". Again, there's nothing wrong with it. If you cut a roast off a bone and then cut the little pieces of meat left on the bone, that's your trim. Now, you also have specific cuts like beef tongue or beef hearts. Some of these cuts can be labeled as "beef" while others must be labeled as the specific cut. Many of the grocery store smoked sausage from the Acadiana area use beef hearts, it's on the label.

Of course you can have chicken or turkey as well. This meat is a different concept. It's "mechanically deboned" which means the processor cuts the meat cuts off the bones, then runs the bones through a press that, to put simply, squeezes the meat out. It's not pretty, but it's still the same meat you're eating when you eat chicken. It's just the meat scraps or "trim".

Now, we have to understand what a hot dog is. It's emulsified. After the meat is ground, the meat is chopped or blended until it's smooth. So if you have squeezed chicken meat that is chopped until smooth, then it's really not an issue because the meat is emulsified anyhow.

Hot dogs are good. If you can't enjoy a good hot dog, then you suck as a human. YOLO...eat the lips and assholes and be happy!

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I don't know why they can't put 8 in the package though

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Because it's a 6/1 pack. 6 links / 1 pound. Grocery stores don't want more than 1 pound on the shelf for one simple reason...the price on the shelf. They want you to see low prices. Of course, there is the possibility that adding 2 more links will make the package larger and take up more space on the grocery shelf (space is valuable in grocery).

If you're ever around a Kroger, the Private Selection brisket hot dogs are delicious. We had them at someone's home and were later gifted with a nice supply for the freezer.