Went to CostCo today and saw a sign that said $4.99 over the "NEW"
CostCo-Branded Hot Dogs and Polish Sausages ("As served in CostCo
Food Courts). So I snarfed a package of each. Then I
double-checked the price: $4.99 for the Hot Dogs, $9.99 for the
polish sausages. Uh, OK. But that's about $1.30/lb for all-beef
hot dogs. What the heck, I'll still take 2 packages of just hot
dogs and thaw one of them 4-6 months from now when I'm not sick of
hot dogs.

Each dog "weighs 8% more than the typical 1/4lb hot dog" (I have a
hunch that it also weighs 8% more than the most non-typical 1/4lb
hot dogs, too). So that's 123 grams.

31 of those grams are pure fat (1/4 of the product, 50% USRDA)
12 are saturated fat (68% USRDA)
and 2 of those 31 grams are trans fats (INFINITE% USRDA)

That's 50% more fat than a fully dressed Big Mac.

1070 mg sodium (50% USRDA) and
75mg Cholesterol (25% USRDA)

This is not a light-weight hot dog. I didn't know hot dogs were so
evil. But ounce for ounce it coincides almost exactly with Ball
Park Beef Franks and Hebrew National Polish Sausage.

....Except for the trans fats. I didn't know you could get trans
fats without using man-made, hydrogenated oils. Are they
hydrogenating whole cows now? I can't find trans fats in any hot
dog except for this one. How and why?

Ingredients: Beef, water, dextrose, salt, sodium lactate, spices,
sodium ethyrobate, paprika and extractives, sodium nitrite.

ObRealFood: Leg of lamb for dinner tonight. With either
vegetable-fortified, herbed cous-cous or orzo.

-sw