7 billion hot dogs eaten each summer
150 million eaten on July 4th
147 calories in a small hotdog
84 % of which comes from artery clogging, high blood pressure causing, stroke & diabetes inducing, belly expanding, liver and kidney slowing fat
Happy Independence Day
From Smitten.com:
Bacon up that sausage boy! But, daddy – my heart hurts!
I just watched Emeril Lagasse cut a pound of pork and a pound of veal (lean, of course, lean is key:)) into a bowl to which he tossed half a pound of cubed lard. He added about ten seasonings from onion to garlic to cayenne and, of course, brown Sugar and put the mix through a meat grinder. He formed the grindings into hamburger-type patties and into the center of each, shoved – quite rudely – an ounce of Havarti cheese. Each patty was spread out on a griddle coated with vegetable oil (because more lard, that would be overkill?) and fried them until the cheese oozed out their sides. Circles of light rye (again with the light – why? Why?) were buttered, fried, and laid out on plates. On each crouton, he piled a patty, mid-ooze, and placed atop each a poached egg. From there, he ladled a sauce comprised of a quarter pound of cooked-down aged ham bits, shallots, hot sauce, and several cups of heavy cream over the tower of coronary cloggage.
A dull pain shot up and down my right arm. My chest hurt. I felt lightheaded, nauseous, dizzy. And as I fell on the floor, writhing in what could only be an sympathetic heart attack for the people forced to take pleasure bites from this mound of animal fat bathed in it’s mothers milk fat (insert appropriate Yiddish expression of horror), my boyfriend remarked: Wow, all the Atkins-dieters in the audience must have just had an orgasm.
[And for those of you dirty little people who just had their appetites whetted – the recipe. I swear, I couldn’t make this stuff up.] http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_20581,00.html
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