The hot dog industry was placed under the spotlight this past Monday when the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that hot dog makers change the shape of the tubular food item in order to be less of a choking hazard for kids. The recommendation also targeted “hard candy, whole grapes, raw carrots, peanut butter, [...]
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Hot Dog Shape Killing Kids?
by JT · February 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Dear Mom, I Want a Meat House for My Birthday
by Eick · July 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments
The Fire Wire has alerted me to an awesome new product available on the always hilarious site Archie McPhee. I’m talking of course about the “Hot Dog Hideaway” a.k.a. the “Build-it-Yourself Meat House Kit.”
So what’s the deal with this meat monstrosity? Archie McPhee describes what you get for your $79.95 investment:
Our bestselling Hot Dog Hideaway [...]
Tags: Hot Dogs
Oscar Mayer Marketing Backfires
by JT · May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Apparently, the hot dog giveaway by Oscar Mayer this past Wednesday generated some unexpected publicity for the famous purveyor of tubular meat-ish products. Instead of all the goodwill emanating from a benevolent gesture prior to one of the nation’s biggest cookout weekends, OM may now be facing a lawsuit thanks to the good folks at [...]
Fenway to Offer Vending Machine Kosher Dogs
by Eick · April 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments
Yes, it must be the start of baseball season, as I’ve managed to make 4 posts in a rowthat are food related, but also connected to baseball. However, this one is just too interesting to pass up. From The Boston Herald, via The Slanch Report, comes news that Fenway Park has installed a new [...]
This is Kind of a Scary Sign
by Eick · March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Screwballs, a baseball blog over at Fox Sports, has posted a recap of, and pictures from, the Red Sox-Dodgers game held at L.A. Coliseum. The crowd of 115,300 may be a world record for the most people in attendance ever at a baseball game. But what jumped out at me from the posting [...]
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Nationals Park: The Food
by Eick · March 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments
Saturday night I attended the first game ever played at Nationals Park (an exhibition against the Orioles). Then, last night, I returned for the official Opening Night game against the Atlanta Braves, which was shown on ESPN. You can read my thoughts on the new ballpark as a whole in a guest post over [...]
