All of these conflicting articles make it very difficult to determine where your average Hot Dog actually comes from. There is only one place to find the REAL answer to this burning question… THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL . I only use all caps because THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL insists on doing the same in all of their press releases. THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL took a brief moment from its usual important work of distributing Certificates of Bravery to injured Italian Sausages and updating the Hot Dog Month Planning Guide to bring you the How Hot Dogs are Made: The Real Story. Strangely, THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL say that the true story is that hot dogs are made of “specially selected meat trimmings of beef and/or pork — just like the meat you buy in your grocer’s case –” (I am not sure what the — is supposed to represent) there isn’t one mention of lips, a$$holes, or of Advanced Meat Recovery! Perhaps the — signifies that everything between the marks is a lie, because I haven’t seen any lips or a$$holes in my grocer’s case. Come to think of it I don’t know that my grocery has a case, or what he has a case of, if he were to have a case that is.

Anyways, –it just goes to show that the Hot Dog is one of nature’s greatest mysteries or one of the seven wonders of the meat world,– or maybe just a mostly inedible pseudo-food.