is there such a thing as a decent hotdog?

Fruball

Mayflower10cat wrote: »

Try veggie hotdog sausages - Sainsburys do a very good frozen one. The best branded veggie hotdogs are made by Tivall, bigger upermarkets stock them and Holland and Barrett. We've fed them to meat eaters for years and they've enjoyed them - never guessing their actually vegetarian.
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp

Thats what I used to do with DS when he was little - If him and his friends asked for hotdogs, they got vegetarian ones. No dubious contents in those and they tasted good

Now I have the DDs, they have never had a hotdog in their lives - they think a hotdog is a sausage (the best quality I can find) in a finger roll

When I was a child we had a local butcher that made the best sausages in the world - when we moved, my parents used to make a special trip to buy them in bulk
The butchers has long since gone but I always get MrT or Sainsbugs Finest or equivalent sausages.

I once went to a BBQ and overheard the host saying to her friend "I have found the most amazing sausages..." I was hoping for a trip down memory lane with a gorgeous sausage "The next thing she said was "I can't believe the price, they were 16p a pack" _pale_ _pale_ _pale_ I grabbed DS and sternly warned him "Do NOT eat the sausages under any circumstances"

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LV_Sue wrote: »

Any
I eat them cold as well, lovely in a HM pasta salad with tomatoes, cucumber & mayo.:) I've never met anyone else who likes cold frankfurters, my husband thinks I'm weird so now I can tell him I'm not alone!:rotfl:

Oh I am so glad I am not alone!!!! My OH won't believe me!

Diflower wrote: »

I've got another pack now as I was passing Lidl and s/sons will be here for a couple of days as it's half term.

They're 79% pork, and standing there gazing at all the labels, have a lot fewer added extras than the cheap sausages. No, I don't know exactly what 'pork' but you can eat all of a pig, can't you:).
The 'experts' ie OH & sons, say they're at least as good as Hertas.
They also say those cheap ones from Mr T (Bessy's or something like that?) - which usually cost more than Lidl's anyway - are horrid.

Yeah, actually I once bought the cheap ones from Mr T because I only wanted them for saussage goulash soup anyway and they were absolutely horrid. I tried one and didn't even cook with it in the end. Never bought other vacuum sealed ones then Herta again. Not even in Lidl etc, but if you say they are good I will try them next time I go to Lidl (there isn't one close by).

Actually last time I went to big Asda they had half a kilo of polish saussages, it was £2.17 I think but they were 85% meat content (these were turkey ones though!) and they were really nice. They were in normal meat box, not in vacuum sealed like Hertas.

Eenymeeny

Thanks op interesting post. On a slightly different vein, those Lidl sausages cut into bite size pieces and added to home-made pea soup is delicious. I always think that it makes more of a meal. Can anyone tell me where I can get Herta sausages please? I'd like to give them a try... Thank you

lostinrates

I want to say thank you for the vegetarian alternative idea: something I had never thought of. My guess is they'd be lower fat too?

Kleopatra

I love the little sausages in Heinz beans please does anyone know which hot dog sausage would be the nearest to them?

anguk

wilf55 wrote: »

i like the ikea ones after trekking round the store the smell of the tinned ones makes me want to heave

I buy packs of the hotdogs from the freezer and the buns every time we go to Ikea, they're the only hotdogs I will eat.

Sublime_2

Good quality sausages, from my local butchers, or supermarket always for me. Quality, over quantity always. Yummy with some mustard in a finger roll. Making me hungry!

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Eenymeeny wrote: »

Thanks op interesting post. On a slightly different vein, those Lidl sausages cut into bite size pieces and added to home-made pea soup is delicious. I always think that it makes more of a meal. Can anyone tell me where I can get Herta sausages please? I'd like to give them a try... Thank you

Yes, I also think it makes more of a meal..
Herta saussages are sold everywhere. At least T, A and S have them - I bought them in all of those.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/sainsburys-price-comparison/Sausages_And_Burgers/Herta_Frankfurters_Classics_10_per_pack_350g.html

Mrs_Chip

I eat them cold too

Herta are nice, as are the Lidl/Aldi jars, but best are the ones sold by German market stalls that are dry - totally delish.

(IKEA lovely too and only 50p!!!)

katiecoodle

I am exactly the same as OP. I hate the idea of mechanically recovered chicken disguised as pork in a sausage, with hot dog flavouring! I can do without them but the rest of the family do like them. I now buy the Bratwurst from Aldi. They come in a glass jar of 5 and are about 99p I think. They taste like hotdogs (allegedly) but are actually pork which was a nice discovery. I won't go anywhere else now for a hotdog. hth.