Nathan's Hot Dogs

[Squirlz]

I'm impressed you're still alive after eating anything made by Bar-S.



Oh? around here Shop Rite consistently wins shopper's polls for best all-around supermarket, and their prices are the lowest. Now if a Wegmans decided to open locally that might change.

Got Nathan's hot dogs at Shop Rite about a month ago on sale for about $3. But, yeah, they're only 14 ounces.

Jim

I was wrong. I looked up the report again and I confused it with Stop & Shop.

 

[Asherry25]

Keep checking...they often go on unadvertised special for $2.99

 

[JVL1018]

I was wrong. I looked up the report again and I confused it with Stop & Shop.

Love my Stop and Shop. Shop Rite is a pit here compared to S&S.
As for Nathan's, I think they're like $5.49, but in the summer they're often on sale BOGO free or for $2.99.

Sunday, I paid $29 for 2 chicken sandwiches, a burger, chicken nuggets, 3 fries and 3 drinks for the 4 of us at Wendy's.
$5.49 for 8 hot dogs, which would feed our family of four with 2 or 3 hot dogs left over, sounds like a deal to me.
If they don't have Nathan's, I'll buy Best, which are the same price.

 

[bcla]

And 25 years ago supermarkets could barely sell any chicken wings at 49c a pound. Now they're sometimes more than boneless skinless breasts.

Jim

As far as beef goes, oxtail and tongue can cost a small fortune these days. They used to be considered "peasant food" and the cuts were practically given away. I understand there's high demand for it these days, especially with Vietnamese noodle houses wanting it to make their broth for phở. However, it takes hours of slow cooking or simmering to get the meat and gelatinous parts to any kind of tenderness to actually eat.

And I love making an oxtail soup. The bones are porous and the flavor from the marrow just leaches out into the broth. I also suck on the bone, where residual marrow has a rich taste.

Recently I had some oxtail served on grits that a got from a food truck. It was great, but it was also $12.

 

[bcla]

Last time I was at a Sam's Club, their hot dogs were 1/4 lb Nathan's all-beef from a steamer. Looked like this:

My membership is no longer current, but I understand that I could probably just walk in with my expired card and they don't swipe the card for food purchases.

 

[msjprincess]

They're $5.99 at my local Stop & Shop but they have BOGO free sales pretty often.

 

[PeterPanic]

Love headcheese. Especially on a Vietnamese sandwich. It's usually "#1" on the menu and is sometimes referred to as "ham" to keep from scaring away potential customers.

I tried grossing out my Italian manager once by telling him about some of the more exotic cuts of meat I've had, including tongue and brain. He said he grew up on a farm relatively poor. His family had a commercial egg farm, but they also raised their own animals for meat on the side. He said they never wasted anything because they couldn't afford to. They ate all the organs and threw away nothing. Offal didn't offend his sensitivities.

I've had head cheese before and was OK with it, but nothing that I have hungered for since then. When I first got married, my new wife made me a sandwich that was made from cows tongue. I ate it, because, well we were just married and I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but, later I had to tell her that if she bought any again, it was hers to have. I can only think about what that tongue has licked to stop me in my tracks.

All that said, an apparently suicidal, I have to say...Nathan's Hot Dogs are, in my opinion, one of the most overrated and overpriced things that one can buy. I'll go hide away for awhile to avoid the wrath.

 

[LBIJim]

Me, and a few million others since they are apparently the best selling hot dogs in the U.S.

Actually, my mom grew up on a farm, and anytime we visited her cousins who still lived on the farm, we probably ate far worse things than Bar S products. On the farm they waste NOTHING. Ever had headcheese?

Yes, I've eaten headcheese (souse, or as my Polish grandparents called it, salceson) and scrapple. Haven't had headcheese in decades, but I'll occasionally order scrapple and eggs for breakfast in a diner.

Meat from the cow's or pig's head, face, cheeks, etc. in souse doesn't skeeve me out. Neither does pork hearts, snouts, etc. in scrapple.

But somehow I can't get past "mechanically separated chicken" or "partially defatted beef fatty tissue" that are in plenty of low-end hot dogs and other "meat" products. For some reason that really grosses me out.

I don't doubt you for a second when you say Bar-S is the best selling hot dog.

Jim

 

[mamacatnv]

When I think of Bar-S I think of Extreme Couponers, starving students and school fundraisers. Thankfully our grocery budget has never put us in a place where the Bar-S products were our only choice but I know others are not as fortunate so I try to refrain from ugly comments.

I'm not sure if I have ever had a Nathan's dog, we are Hebrew National folks and I've seen them approach the $5 mark as well. I stock up when Costco has them on coupon. I love that they sell a 4 pack, with the vacuum sealing, hotdogs freeze very well

 

[tennvalgirl]

Last time I was at a Sam's Club, their hot dogs were 1/4 lb Nathan's all-beef from a steamer. Looked like this:

My membership is no longer current, but I understand that I could probably just walk in with my expired card and they don't swipe the card for food purchases.

I love eating at SAM'S so much.
Have you had their pretzels? Yum.

 

[msjprincess]

My kids love what they refer to as "cheap hot dogs". I've always bought Nathan's, Sabrett or Boars Head. A couple of years ago we were at a pool and they bought hot dogs at the snack bar. They went on and on how they were the best hot dogs they had ever tasted. I thought they were gross. Ever since then they beg for "cheap hot dogs'" when I buy them. So I buy them Ball Park or Oscar Mayer or something like that.

 

[msjprincess]

Me, and a few million others since they are apparently the best selling hot dogs in the U.S.

Actually, my mom grew up on a farm, and anytime we visited her cousins who still lived on the farm, we probably ate far worse things than Bar S products. On the farm they waste NOTHING. Ever had headcheese?

According to this article it's Ball Park

http://adage.com/article/news/oscar-mayer-fires-bacon-wieners-battle-top-dog/241416/

 

[sjs314]

The Great Hot Dog Debate ......... Honestly My Favorites Are Kayem and Hummel Natural Casing which run $13.99 and up for 2-3 lb box on sale around $8.99.

Nathan's, Ball Park, Oscar Mayer all over rated and over priced.

I've eaten plenty of SBar's and I am still alive and kicking.

A friend of my mothers use to work where hot dogs were made and I recall her saying if you saw what went into them You would never eat one again

As for Headcheese and Scrapple I had an Uncle who loved both (coal miner) and another Uncle who loved Pig Tails

Waste not Want Not

 

[Pea-n-Me]

According to this article it's Ball Park

http://adage.com/article/news/oscar-mayer-fires-bacon-wieners-battle-top-dog/241416/

"They plump when you cook 'em!"

 

[mrodgers]

My wife buys the Hebrew National that was mentioned earlier. I didn't think we had enough for a cook-out once last year so stopped and just grabbed a package of Ball Park. Haven't eaten Ball Park or Oscar Meyer forever and they were absolutely disgusting! I think I threw them out.

 

[tvguy]

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But somehow I can't get past "mechanically separated chicken" or "partially defatted beef fatty tissue" that are in plenty of low-end hot dogs and other "meat" products. For some reason that really grosses me out.

Warning, don't buy this stuff then.

 

[MIGrandma]

We eat hot dogs quite often when we're camping, love cooking them over an open campfire. We've tried most brands, expensive and cheap. We prefer Koegel's and Ball Park, and if we're having several people camp with us we've done the bun-size Bar S ones as well. I've always preferred hot dogs over hamburgers, and most times when DH wants to cook hamburgers on the grill I'll have him put on a few hot dogs as well. Love them in a steamed bun, with ketchup, mustard, and sweet onions.

 

[bcla]

We've got a large selection of regional high-end sausage makers. There are also local companies that make basic hot dogs.

http://www.millerhotdogs.com

There's also a small chain that sells their dogs regionally in supermarkets.

http://www.caspershotdogs.com/

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I think Nathan's hot dogs are nasty. And too much money. We buy Ball Park, but only when they're on sale.

 

[scrapquitler]

My kids love what they refer to as "cheap hot dogs". I've always bought Nathan's, Sabrett or Boars Head. A couple of years ago we were at a pool and they bought hot dogs at the snack bar. They went on and on how they were the best hot dogs they had ever tasted. I thought they were gross. Ever since then they beg for "cheap hot dogs'" when I buy them. So I buy them Ball Park or Oscar Mayer or something like that.

Even Oscar Meyer are expensive now. $3.99 for the weiners, $5.49 for the all beef unless they are on sale.