When I saw the "sausages" in your previous post, my first thought was, "Those look like hot dogs." I was right!
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When I saw the "sausages" in your previous post, my first thought was, "Those look like hot dogs." I was right!
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Yer am familiar with the carcinogen list of horrors surrounding smoke, whether a tar derived flavouring or the real deal. These Finnebrogue folk use neither. Probably turn out to be something even worse for you in the long run 😆
When I saw the "sausages" in your previous post, my first thought was, "Those look like hot dogs." I was right!
CD
A yes they are but there were real sausages in that post too.
Weird two tier system here for hotdogs and frankfurters. Hot dogs are cheap, poor quality, long life, usually swimming in a brine in a jar or tin languishing above the freezer compartments in supermarkets and frankfurters are high meat content, better quality, firm and sold in the chiller cabinets.
Is there a distinction in the US?
I did notice the bangers.
Hot dogs here are pretty much what you describe as frankfurters. Hot dogs in cans/tins or jars are a British thing, it appears. Hot dogs here are vacuum packed and stocked in refrigerated sections of stores.
There are different levels of Hot Dogs. There are the cheap-azz "mystery meat" dogs, then better quality beef and pork dogs, and 100-percent beef dogs, including Kosher hot dogs. Brands like Nathan's, Hebrew National (Kosher) and Vienna Beef (Chicago dogs) are the top mass-market brands.
A lot of Americans take hot dogs seriously. I do. I don't buy or consume "mystery meat" dogs. My normal purchase would be Nathan's. I can't buy Vienna Beef dogs here. I wish I could. A Chicago dog is a very special thing, if you get it "dragged through the garden."
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Oh so 'Dino's Brooklyn Big Dog' is just marketing for the UK?
To be honest tinned hotdogs are usually bought by people as a treat for their dog or by the financially challenged.
Apart from Dino's which aren't the same level of yuck or the same price point 😂
I've never heard of Dino's Big Dogs. It's a totally British brand. I did a search, and this is what I got.
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Probably hiding from the authenticity police along with Haagen Dazs and Bombay Sapphire 😆
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When making brulees I freeze the whites for later pavlova. No different.
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It was the triple threat of pesto, Alfredo, and marinara.
St. Louis claims to have “invented” toasted ravioli, and they’ll fight you over it. Over the last 20 years or so, it’s migrated steadily across the Midwest, both in restaurants and grocery store frozen food sections.
I bet it was really from the Tudor years in Britain, and it was spelled "raviolli."
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Who knows?…by now, there’s nothing really new. 🤷♂️I bet it was really from the Tudor years in Britain, and it was spelled "raviolli."
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Curiously enough, that reminds me of a lunch back in the Eighties. Work group went out to an "Italian" restaurant close by, and there was something on the menu called "Spaghetti with 3 sauces".
Meat sauce (I wouldn't dare call it bolognese), mayo and tomato ketchup.
Curiously enough, that reminds me of a lunch back in the Eighties. Work group went out to an "Italian" restaurant close by, and there was something on the menu called "Spaghetti with 3 sauces".
Meat sauce (I wouldn't dare call it bolognese), mayo and tomato ketchup.
Please tell me that wasn't served at an American restaurant. 🙏 We have a hard enough time with Europeans thinking we have bad taste in foods.
BTW, from my own experience with Italian-American cooking, a Bolognese is quite different from a meat sauce. A meat sauce here is basically just a marinara type sauce with ground beef in it. A Bolognese takes all day to cook, and uses cuts of beef, pork and sausages.
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What is it, apart from tasty looking?
It looks like breaded fried ravioli? But it's called toasted?
It looks like breaded fried ravioli? But it's called toasted?
I logged in with my VPN as if I am in London, and found the TESCO ad for Dino's Big Brooklyn Dogs. I looked at the ingredients...
Pork Meat (75%), Water, Iodised Salt (Salt, Potassium Iodate), Spices, Spice Extracts, Sugar, Stabiliser: Diphosphates, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid, Preservative: Sodium Nitrate, Beechwood Smoke
I assure you there is NOTHING Brooklyn about those dogs. I would NEVER buy those dogs. I wouldn't allow them in my house. I strongly recommend you stay away from them.
Oh, and they are made in Germany... which also surprised me. Made in China seems more in line, to me.
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They are basically bar food, or pub food. they are not intended to be a meal by any means. They exist to soak up some of the alcohol you are consuming at the same time. They are the kind of food you enjoy eating, but feel bad about it.
I don't understand the "toasted" in the name, either.
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