Tinned Hot Dog Sausages

[Pferdestarke]

I don't know why but on a whim I bought a can of 'Ye Olde Oak' hot dog sausages from Sainsbury's the other day. Maybe it was because as a boy I would enjoy hot dogs with onions served by my gran when I visited on a Saturday.

Just browsing through the contents of our pantry for tonight's dinner, I picked them up to have a closer look and made the mistake of reading the ingredients list.

They are now in the bin, unopened:

Chicken (mechanically seperated) 61%
Potato starch
Beef collagen
Water
Salt
Hydrolysed soya protein
Emulsifiers
Dextrose
Coriander
Nutmeg
White pepper
Smoke flavouring
Preservative
Antioxidant
Mace

What the fk is all that about?

I really am going to read more food labels. It's a good job I cook from fresh most nights. And there I was thinking hot-dogs were pork-based. Mechanically re-claimed chicken I tell you!

[soad]

Did right to bin them, processed foods are naff.

[Cactussed]

I am doing this more and more.
Reading the ingredients or just making it myself...

[grumbledoak]

Crikey! And I thought Walls "Porkers" were bad! That list is positively frightening.

[Big Al.]

Pferdestarke said:

the ingredients list.

Chicken (mechanically seperated) 61%
Potato starch
Beef collagen
Water
Salt
Hydrolysed soya protein
Emulsifiers
Dextrose
Coriander
Nutmeg
White pepper
Smoke flavouring
Preservative
Antioxidant
Mace

In the old day's they just used to be made from "lips and arrissoles"

[f-fuxake]

Big Al. said:

Pferdestarke said:

the ingredients list.

Chicken (mechanically seperated) 61%
Potato starch
Beef collagen
Water
Salt
Hydrolysed soya protein
Emulsifiers
Dextrose
Coriander
Nutmeg
White pepper
Smoke flavouring
Preservative
Antioxidant
Mace

In the old day's they just used to be made from "lips and arrissoles"

And eyeballs!

[johnnywgk]

What's up with you...

Nothing wrong with Nutmeg, corriander, etc etc.



Seriously though, you did'nt think they were made from fillet, did you.

DONT DONT DONT go on youtube and type in "making hotdogs"

Ps stop reading them labels, Pork pies, burgers, fish paste, pate, anything minced, ham, spam the list goes on. Don't care how posh the pate is, i bet it's got some of the dodgy stuff in it (hehe i said innit) chav.

[Cotty]

johnnywgk said:

Ps stop reading them labels, Pork pies, burgers, fish paste, pate, anything minced, ham, spam the list goes on. Don't care how posh the pate is, i bet it's got some of the dodgy stuff in it (hehe i said innit) chav.

On a whim I bought a tin of spam. Been in the cupboard over a year, don't know why I bought it .

[johnnywgk]

Spam sandwich, or heavenly, spam fritters, nom nom nom.

[collateral]

I'd guess the ingredients of corned beef are pretty grim...gorgeous on a sandwich though

[Cotty]

johnnywgk said:

Spam sandwich, or heavenly, spam fritters, nom nom nom.

Go on then, how to you cook it?

[Pferdestarke]

Cotty said:

johnnywgk said:

Spam sandwich, or heavenly, spam fritters, nom nom nom.

Go on then, how to you cook it?

Ask OBL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPE7gjuIb7k

[smack]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

And the process used to make kebab meat....

[SJobson]

smack said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

And the process used to make kebab meat....

Nothing wrong with an efficient use of the carcass

[johnnywgk]

Cotty, just make a batter mix, same as fish'n'chips batter, can shallow fry, don't have to deep fry.

Just cut a slice of spam, i prefer thin spam more batter, up to you, just enjoy.

Same as before...DONT DONT DONT..read that label, spam is just fillet of animal, ground up, til it's a paste. Thats all, nothing added, nothing taken away.





Bit like shreddies. Enjoy, my Nan eat that stuff, live til 90.

[Cotty]

johnnywgk said:

Same as before...DONT DONT DONT..read that label, spam is just fillet of animal, ground up, til it's a paste. Thats all, nothing added, nothing taken away.

You had me at hello

[grumbledoak]

anonymous said:

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Good show! And, tell the O/H to stop being so daft; it isn't hard to guess which 'foods' are likely to be rammed with crap.

[captainzep]

Oh COME ON.

Come the apocalypse/shipwreck/butcher strike I'll be the one happily eating canned meats in all their delicious salty processed guises whilst you lot mince about trying to grow hummous trees.

And then who'll have the strength to 'cherchez la femmes'? -Before my stroke?

Eh?

Me.

That's who.

[pugwash4x4]

Pferdestarke said:

Chicken (mechanically seperated) 61%
Potato starch
Beef collagen
Water
Salt
Hydrolysed soya protein
Emulsifiers
Dextrose
Coriander
Nutmeg
White pepper
Smoke flavouring
Preservative
Antioxidant
Mace

I'm going to get SO flamed, but that's reallly quite a quality hot dog.

MRM chicken will have been sourced in the UK so will be relatively free of nasties- and lets be honest how is chicekn breast protein that different to MRM chicken protein? The biggest problem with that list is the Salt level and the preservative.

Havea look at the really cheap ones and they will have hidden where the meat comes from- and it will be FULL of sythesised E numbers.

If you really want to feel sick then find out how "Donor" Kebabs are made!

[OnTheOverrun]

You're right. Your average fresh breakfast sausage like Richmond ones are 42% meat and anyone who's ever been to McDonalds has had more MRM than that.

Edited by OnTheOverrun on Tuesday 3rd November 00:29