On Aug 19, 5:23*pm, sf > wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:15:08 -0500, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
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> > "l, not -l" wrote:
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> > > This morning's local (STL) Fox news had a segment on "healthy" food for
> > > kids. *Among the items suggested was a whole wheat hot dog bun, spread with
> > > peanut butter and honey, then lay a peeled banana on the PB&H and you have a
> > > ..... they didn't name it, I'll call it a banana-dog.
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> > Bloody hell, why does everyone think that you have to disguise healthy
> > food for kids?! Just give them some nice healthy *normal* food routinely
> > from their first solid food.
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> That's not disguising anything and there is nothing wrong with the
> concept. *Kids like to eat with their hands and hot dogs are easy to
> handle; so put something that normally goes between two slices of
> bread into a hot dog bun.
>

Hot dogs are the biggest food choking hazard for children. From a
February article calling for hot dog redesign:

"If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design
the perfect plug for a child's airway, it would be a hot dog," says
statement author Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury
Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus,
Ohio. "I'm a pediatric emergency doctor, and to try to get them out
once they're wedged in, it's almost impossible."