Would you eat...

[viscousmemories]

Yeah, I deliberately made a title that's gonna look funny on the index.

Anyhoo...

I bought a 24 pack of hot dogs, nuked a couple (in buns) and ate them. That night, and for the next few days, I had bad cramps and as many as 10 painful visits to the bathroom.

When I thought about what I had eaten, the only thing out of the ordinary that came to mind was those hot dogs. However, I think I may have gone to a restaurant for dinner the night before. Unfortunately it has now been several weeks since, and I don't really remember the details.

Anyway I have avoided those hot dogs ever since. Would you?

[livius drusus]

Nope. I'd use that recipe I gave you and bake them in the oven. ;)

[viscousmemories]

Nope. I'd use that recipe I gave you and bake them in the oven. ;)
I know, I know. I'm just going for a second, third or fourteenth opinion here.

The number isn't important; anyone who'll tell me to throw them out will do. :slide:

[LadyShea]

I would throw them away. Hot dogs are so full of preservatives I am sure they aren't "bad", but you may be sensitive or allergic to something in them.

[viscousmemories]

:woohoo:

We have one vote for the garbage can! Can I get an amen?

[Ex-zombie]

There really is only one way to be sure it was the hot dogs. You are going to have to eat one more of those hot dogs. Report back to me on the results.

[Ymir's blood]

Yeah, I deliberately made a title that's gonna look funny on the index.and already got an entry on the appropriate thread...

:popcorn:

[Ymir's blood]

I say give em the heave ho! Even if they aren't bad, could you really stomach eating them, not knowing? :sweaty:

My motto when it comes to food spoilage, is 'when in doubt, throw it out.'

[Beth]

I would say to tossem'.

[livius drusus]

What a bunch of wussies. :nojustno:

[Ymir's blood]

What a bunch of wussies. :nojustno:
Send them to liv, let her eat them! :mail2:

[Corona688]

Anyway I have avoided those hot dogs ever since. Would you? Hell yes. If they made you sick then, just imagine how sick they'd make you after they've gone bad. On second thought, don't imagine it. Just toss 'em.

LOL at the snailmail smilie. How true.

[Dingfod]

What a bunch of wussies. :nojustno:I agree.

Albertsons again, Tom?

[viscousmemories]

I agree.

Albertsons again, Tom?
:chuckle: Good question, unfortunately I can't remember.

[Bella]

I don't think it was the hot dogs. Usually "food poisoning" only lasts for 24 hours - 36 at most, unless you contracted some serious bacterial thingie and if you nuked the dogs for long enough, the microwaves should have killed everything left squiggling.

Were the hot dogs good? If so, try 'em again.

[Beth]

Right, but some bacteria leave toxins as waste that do not cook out. Also, were the hotdogs cooked evenly through? was the middle underheated, possiby? I made some hotdogs yesterday and the outside was hot, the inside, cold in some spots.

[viscousmemories]

Right, but some bacteria leave toxins as waste that do not cook out. Also, were the hotdogs cooked evenly through? was the middle underheated, possiby? I made some hotdogs yesterday and the outside was hot, the inside, cold in some spots.
Yes, now that you mention it I remember thinking that I hadn't nuked them long enough but I had already slathered them with ketchup and mustard, so I ate them undercooked. :blush:

[Skep]

All but home-made wieners are pre-cooked and even home-made wieners are immediately par-boiled after the casing is stuffed. IOW, it's not necessary to even heat wieners in order for them to be safe to eat. Unless the wieners were cross contaminated by coming into direct contact with some other food items not considered wholesome and given that the modern commercial weiner is full of preservatives, I think it's highly unlikely that the wieners made you sick.

[livius drusus]

Quit saying wieners. :wtf:

[Skep]

Is "wiener" not the type of sausage that is being discussed? :scratch:

[viscousmemories]

I still have the wiener dogs in question and haven't made any final decisions yet. This conversation continues to be more and more intriguing. The point that such meats are generally pre-cooked is a very good one that I hadn't thought of. Here's what I know:

They are in fact Jennie-O Jumbo Turkey Franks, with "natural smoke flavoring". Unfortunately, neither the package or the Jennie-O website indicates whether they were pre-cooked. The ingredients are:

Mechanically separated turkey, water, contains 2% or less of salt, modified food starch, potassium lactate, seasoning (corn syrup solids, dextrose, sugar, paprika, sodium erythorbate, spice extractives), sodium diacetate, natural smoke flavoring, sodium nitrite.

The package says "Keep Refrigerated" and use by Dec 20th, 2004. But I have had them in the freezer since I purchased them.

[LadyShea]

Dude, I ate hot dogs raw out of the package as a kid, I am not even sure they are biodegradeable. Did you ever see the rotting meat website? Those hot dogs looked fresh until some animal took them away and ate them.


You, however, may be allergic to one of them ingredients.

[lisarea]

Is "wiener" not the type of sausage that is being discussed? :scratch:

Count me as equally bemused.

It is my understanding that viscousmemories ate some wieners and experienced discomfort shortly thereafter, which may or may not be attributable to the wieners he ate, and he wanted to know if we thought it would be a good idea for him to continue to eat the rest of the wieners he procured, lest he waste lawfully procured wieners, but taking into consideration the possibility that the wiener-eating was the cause of his discomfort.

And those are, to my understanding, the prongs of his wiener dilemma.

[Beth]

It is rare, but hotdogs can become contaminated with bateria such as e-coli, that is why they are recommended to be cooked. I used to eat them cold as well, in fact, I think cold hotdogs are great, but I had one once that made me very ill. I knew it was the hot dog because that was a brunchy thing and I had eaten nothing else that day.

Anyway Tom, if you eat another one, you will probably know for sure this time if it was the dog that dood it.

[livius drusus]

All y'all can bite the wiener. :fuckyou:

[Beth]

All y'all can bite the wiener. :fuckyou:
Nothing like sinking my teeth into a thick, juicy wiener. :innocent:

[viscousmemories]

You people are so funny.

Shea, I don't think I'm allergic to any of those ingredients. I could be, but since they're all fairly common I'd think I would've had this problem a lot more in life. Granted I may have developed an allergy to something in there, but that seems a stretch.

Oh man, y'all are gonna kill me but I just remembered something else!

I had just come back from Michigan, where I had been surrounded by family, including many babies and several people who had had the stomach flu earlier in the week. So if it's possible that I caught a bug there but didn't experience the symptoms for 2 or 3 days, then that's probably what happened. :blush:

[livius drusus]

I knew it! See? See? Wussies. :livcrop:

[beyelzu]

You people are so funny.

Shea, I don't think I'm allergic to any of those ingredients. I could be, but since they're all fairly common I'd think I would've had this problem a lot more in life. Granted I may have developed an allergy to something in there, but that seems a stretch.

Oh man, y'all are gonna kill me but I just remembered something else!

I had just come back from Michigan, where I had been surrounded by family, including many babies and several people who had had the stomach flu earlier in the week. So if it's possible that I caught a bug there but didn't experience the symptoms for 2 or 3 days, then that's probably what happened. :blush:
I cant believe that you were going to let some innocent weiners take the fall for your typhoid laden family

:tmgrin:

[viscousmemories]

You're evil. :chuckle:

[LadyShea]

We had some friends stay with us for a few days once, during which their kids projectile vomited all over the house. We assumed "cheap buffet born illness", but no. 2 days after they left, Frankie and I ended up projectile vomiting. At least we made it to the bathroom though.

[Ensign Steve]

Eat the dogs, pussy! Wrap them in croissants and bake them. Cut them up and put them on spaghetti. Snarf them raw, right out of the pack. Jennie-O turkey dogs are good for you. They'll put hair on your chest.

[Blake]

wiener

[viscousmemories]

Eat the dogs pussy!
:eek: :D

[Ex-zombie]

wiener

That's cheating Blake. Liv is right there. She can spank you in person. :fuming:

[Ensign Steve]

Eat the dogs pussy!
:eek: :D

If you were going to screw around with the punctuation, why didn't you add an apostrophe?

sicko.

[viscousmemories]

I have partaken of the dogs and lived to tell about it. :yup:

[viscousmemories]

...and yet for some reason I still didn't want to eat the rest. So I'm bumping this thread on the eve of its one year anniversary to say that I've made the command decision to throw 'em out.

:taps:

[Joshua Adams]

:adminpwr:

[username]

Well, I got some local beer for a buddy and myself to drink one night. A new to us brand. We both thought it tasted good, but after 2 or 3 we were both in the bathroom and feeling not so good stomach wise. Naturally we blamed the beer.

So, we switched to another brand.

Next day I had a few of the offending beers left and drank them. Had no problem with them. Go figure.

I think you can ascertain from the above whether I would advise eating the dogs to find out if they were the culprit or not. Might not be smart, but it is what I would do.

ETA: damn you VM for bumping this. Somehow I missed that. Oh well, at least you did the right thing and eat them again :D

[Legs]

Who buys a 24 pack of weiners? (unless you have 10 kids or something)

I am not a hot dog fan :shudder: but we buy the top dogs that are individually packed so you just take out as many as you need :)

[D. Scarlatti]

Who buys a 24 pack of weiners?

Same guy (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=168221&postcount=8) who gets Kraft Singles 72 at a time.

Oscar Mayer makes the bun-length weiner that comes in convenient resealable packs of four.

[viscousmemories]

It's the curse of Sam's Club, I tell ya! Who can resist getting twice as much for the same price?

So I just went to throw them out and noticed a Use by: Dec 20, 2004 on the package. :giggle:

[D. Scarlatti]

My recipe for hot dogs contains mustard, chopped onion, sliced tomatoes, sauerkraut, and melted mozzarella cheese. That way you ingest the nutritious goodness of the lips, eyelids, and mechanically separated viscera without actually having to taste it.

[Leesifer]

Hhmm, I can't imagine having sauerkraut on a hot dog.

Everything else, yes! Not cabbage. :nope:

[godfry n. glad]

Interesting thread....

It seems vm has a bulk food compulsion.

And vm, the date was long before you started the thread, but you'd mentioned that you'd frozen them.

All commercial frankfurters are fully cooked before packaging. They, along with other visceral bits like baloney, olive loaf, pimento loaf and genoa salami are all safe to eat without re-cooking. Or should be.

The offending bacteria might have been on his hands, rather than the dogs.

I'm with Yb on this. "When in doubt, throw it out."

And I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what liv has against folks from Vienna. Perhaps she prefers Frankfurters?

[livius drusus]

Only when they're played by Tim Curry.

[MonCapitan2002]

What a bunch of wussies. :nojustno:
I was about to reply to agree with you when I realised how old this thread was. I wonder who dredged this thread up from the depths.

[MonCapitan2002]

...and yet for some reason I still didn't want to eat the rest. So I'm bumping this thread on the eve of its one year anniversary to say that I've made the command decision to throw 'em out.

:taps:
You mean they were in your refrigerator all this time? o_O

[godfry n. glad]

...and yet for some reason I still didn't want to eat the rest. So I'm bumping this thread on the eve of its one year anniversary to say that I've made the command decision to throw 'em out.

:taps:
You mean they were in your refrigerator all this time? o_O

Procrastination as high art.

[viscousmemories]

Freezer! I'm lazy, not crazy.

[mountain_hare]

viscous:

I bought a 24 pack of hot dogs, nuked a couple (in buns) and ate them. That night, and for the next few days, I had bad cramps and as many as 10 painful visits to the bathroom.

Usually the bacteria which cause food poisoning take a minimum of 24 hours to take effect. In otherwords, what you ate THE DAY BEFORE most likely gave you the food poisoning.

You could also have picked up a gastro virus from work.

Blaming it on the hot dogs is a bit presumptuous.

Nevertheless, I'd avoid the hotdogs, to be on the safe side.

[Sock Puppet]

This is something like the third or fourth time that somebody has faked me out by bumping a thread that's just over one year old.

Seriously, if those dogs are as old as this thread, toss the fucking things already.

[Blake]

wiener