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    150,000 hot dogs.

    15,000 Pounds of Hot Dog Filling Spilled on the Side of a Pennsylvania Highway

    With an average of 1.6 ounces per sausage, that's a loss of around 150,000 hot dogs.

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    #2
    Gross.

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    • bbqLuv
      bbqLuv commented
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      Tell us you don't like hotdogs?

    #3
    Hotdog shortage now

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    • bbqLuv
      bbqLuv commented
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      You're right, a national crisis!

    #4
    This picture is incredible! Why would you need to transport the filling? I mean did the truck take cargo one bay from the cat food distribution point. No one wants to see the sausage get made. . .

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    • Jerod Broussard
      Jerod Broussard commented
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      Mechanically separated at one facility, formed into hotdogs at another. Plastic lined cardboard combos. One filled with chicken thighs will weigh over 2,000lbs.

    • TxF
      TxF commented
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      You should explain "mechanically seperate". They’ll stop asking questions after that. 😂

    #5
    Damn. I think I heard Huskee 's cries of despair all the way from MI.

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    #6
    Interesting that it gets transported like that. I guess I just assumed it got cooked at the same plants where it's made. But what do I know about hot dog making, I only know how to COOK them bad boys properly, with thermometer probes and all.

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    • Huskee
      Huskee commented
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      Panhead John, Lol. As a reminder, it was while testing the new grill/smoker, and it was in addition to the bread test- finding the actual central grate temp compared to the unit's readout, and finding any hot spots. But I agree that without context it is quite a funny picture.

    • Panhead John
      Panhead John commented
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      I never knew that, I don’t think you mentioned it before. Thanks for ruining my memories…

    • Murdy
      Murdy commented
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      My understanding is that he machines that make skinless hot dogs are highly specialized and expensive, so it probably makes economic sense to transport meat to them from wherever it exists.

    #7
    The trailer carrying the stuff doesn't look like it's a refrigerated rig. Glad I'm not cleaning up that mess.

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    • Jerod Broussard
      Jerod Broussard commented
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      You should see a "gut trailer" spill.

    • smokin fool
      smokin fool commented
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      Oh yeah.
      Even when they didn't spill the old gut wagons we aromatic enough in there own right.
      The old Toronto stock yards and the meat plants moved off of St. Clair Ave in Toronto years ago but I swear drive down there and there's still the stench of death.
      A neighbor worked there and got me a job on weekends, gave one a whole new perspective on food, lasted one summer.

    #8
    You can tell that was a heavy load by where the load is in relation to the trailer.
    Trailer stopper back there....the load continued it journey for a few more yards.
    Leave it overnight, the coyotes will have if cleaned up by morning.

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    • Huskee
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      "local vermin win lottery and rejoice!"

    #9
    Dammed right Jerrod . Our local town has a pet food factory. South and West are chicken processing plants. Worst call for our volunteer fire company is a gut truck overturned, and we get them quite often.
    It is hard to describe the sight, feel and smell of tons of chicken guts spread across a highway.

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    • bbqLuv
      bbqLuv commented
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      I guess sometimes the chickens don't make it across the road

    #10
    Maple Lodge farms has a processing plant just north of us, you can tell when they clean out the pits up there.

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      #11
      "...and there's hamburger allll over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut."

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      • bardsleyque
        bardsleyque commented
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        my iron lung it's working...

      • DaveD
        DaveD commented
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        Just one of the many great things about this forum... I can drop an obscure Firesign Theater ref and someone always gets it!! Shoes For Industry, compadre!

      #12
      Damn...I used to like hot dogs...

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        #13
        You can’t pack those as tight if you put it in casings. That’s probably saving you $.005 a hot dog.

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          #14
          There’s a plant near me (Hemplers) that makes the hot dog filling, stuffs, and smokes them all in one facility. I work on their refrigeration systems. Kinda gross seeing big vats of hot dog filling getting mixed up.

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          • Jerod Broussard
            Jerod Broussard commented
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            Wow, those refrigerator systems really play nice when the electricity goes out momentarily

          • Huskee
            Huskee commented
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            I thought the same when I seen an episode of something that showed how bologna is made. There's something off-putting about a big vat of meat batter...

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