Where can I buy a good frankfurter?
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I have had an urge for a nice hotdog for a while now. After looking around Asda and Tesco I could only find the own brand, Herta and Princes frankfurters which are made from mechanically recovered chicken and other 'sweepings' and hydrolysed fat. I've eaten the Princes ones before and found them disgusting.
I eventually found Ye Olde Oak American Style in Sainsburys which seemed better at 70% pork content, but they are quite high in saturated fat at 10g per 100g. They also have added hydrolysed fats, which I thought was the unhealthiest type of processed fat. I bought them anyway and enjoyed them in a stick with onions, ketchup and mustard.
Has anyone found a better option for both taste and health?
I eventually found Ye Olde Oak American Style in Sainsburys which seemed better at 70% pork content, but they are quite high in saturated fat at 10g per 100g. They also have added hydrolysed fats, which I thought was the unhealthiest type of processed fat. I bought them anyway and enjoyed them in a stick with onions, ketchup and mustard.
Has anyone found a better option for both taste and health?
Tow Vehicle Rqrd said:
Lidl do jars of giant frankfurters. Pretty tasty but I admit I didn't look too closly at the label to check out content. It was hangover fodder after all...
Think they're next to the one's I named...they are about £2.50 for the very large ones.Just checked the label and it's 80%pork
Edited by condor on Tuesday 27th July 13:59
AlexC1981 said:
I have had an urge for a nice hotdog for a while now. After looking around Asda and Tesco I could only find the own brand, Herta and Princes frankfurters which are made from mechanically recovered chicken and other 'sweepings' and hydrolysed fat. I've eaten the Princes ones before and found them disgusting.
I eventually found Ye Olde Oak American Style in Sainsburys which seemed better at 70% pork content, but they are quite high in saturated fat at 10g per 100g. They also have added hydrolysed fats, which I thought was the unhealthiest type of processed fat. I bought them anyway and enjoyed them in a stick with onions, ketchup and mustard.
Has anyone found a better option for both taste and health?
if you're looking for any kind of healthy sausage, forget it they are all very unhealthy:I eventually found Ye Olde Oak American Style in Sainsburys which seemed better at 70% pork content, but they are quite high in saturated fat at 10g per 100g. They also have added hydrolysed fats, which I thought was the unhealthiest type of processed fat. I bought them anyway and enjoyed them in a stick with onions, ketchup and mustard.
Has anyone found a better option for both taste and health?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8688104.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/18...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583396/Sau...
Avoid them completely.
Edited by Silver993tt on Tuesday 27th July 16:21
Plotloss said:
I thought that was quite interesting 
Interesting links and video. I didn't expect them to be good for me, but I was hoping to find the best of the bunch.
Perhaps it's time to experiment with vegetarian hotdogs if I can find such a thing. I suppose they will still be full of salt and preservitives, which seems to be the main issue on the links you posted Silver933tt.
Normal hotdogs don't really taste like meat anyway.
Perhaps it's time to experiment with vegetarian hotdogs if I can find such a thing. I suppose they will still be full of salt and preservitives, which seems to be the main issue on the links you posted Silver933tt.
Normal hotdogs don't really taste like meat anyway.
condor said:
Plotloss said:
I thought that was quite interesting What's also interesting is the scale, for them to be produced in that scale means they're being consumed in a similar scale...
I probably eat a 5 sausage jar a month - but that's because it's handy weekend camping fodder. This month I've probably had 3 jars as I've done Silverstone twice and Goodwood 
It's not healthy - but they are tasty, and very easy fill you up type food so I'm not surprised with how popular they are.
It's not healthy - but they are tasty, and very easy fill you up type food
so I'm not surprised with how popular they are.Cheese Mechanic said:
Buy cheap cut, (yellow label brand) make sausage.
Buy rolls. Fry onions. mustard, tommy, Done.
Never mind professional bores like silver whatever, once in a while will do no harm, and will be tasty.
yeh, you're right, everyone should listen to your factual quotes when it comes to a simple way to reduce the risk of something nasty since you're a highly qualified medical expert Buy rolls. Fry onions. mustard, tommy, Done.
Never mind professional bores like silver whatever, once in a while will do no harm, and will be tasty.
However, I prefer to listen to people like these who are a tiny, weeny bit more qualified than yourself I believe:
Quoted from thefollowing article "Avoid eating processed meats almost always":
http://www.wcrf-uk.org/preventing_cancer/diet/meat...
Silver993tt said:
Cheese Mechanic said:
Buy cheap cut, (yellow label brand) make sausage.
Buy rolls. Fry onions. mustard, tommy, Done.
Never mind professional bores like silver whatever, once in a while will do no harm, and will be tasty.
yeh, you're right, everyone should listen to your factual quotes when it comes to a simple way to reduce the risk of something nasty since you're a highly qualified medical expert Buy rolls. Fry onions. mustard, tommy, Done.
Never mind professional bores like silver whatever, once in a while will do no harm, and will be tasty.
However, I prefer to listen to people like these who are a tiny, weeny bit more qualified than yourself I believe:
Quoted from thefollowing article "Avoid eating processed meats almost always":
http://www.wcrf-uk.org/preventing_cancer/diet/meat...
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