Sqwertz wrote:
>
> 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?

Trans fats do occur naturally in meats in small amounts. Likely they are
being more honest and listing them.

>
> 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

As for the other comment, I *want* nitrites in sausages, they are
supposed to be there.