Five Vintage Hot Dog Horrors
Hot dogs are inherently simple to prepare. Heat them up, put them on a bun, top 'em, and chow down. Not much to it. Unfortunately that wasn't good enough for "culinary experts" in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. During this dark period of cooking, publishers often included the most grotesque recipes and photos in their cookbooks. You can see some great examples on flickr.
A favorite food to abuse was the lowly hot dog. The people who created the following Frankfurter Frankensteins were completely out of their minds. Nowadays, someone might come up with a similar recipe to be ironic or funny. Back then, it was because of leaded gasoline fumes.
1. Wiener Tiara Bake
According to the recipe, this is a "sensational way to serve frankfurters--picket-fencing in a mountain of nippy stuffing." According to me, this is a "sensational way to make me vomit on my keyboard." How the heck are you supposed to eat this thing? (photo courtesy of photobucket)
2. Broiler Bean-er Wiener
I can't decide whether or not this is the work of a genius. Don't get me wrong--it's horrific--but I admire the attempt to make a pseudo-sub out of baked beans, hot dogs, and pickles. (photo courtesy of flickr)
3. Frankfurter Spectacular
This recipe car definitely helped me lose weight. I haven't been hungry since I saw this picture. (photo courtesy of flickr)
4. Crown Roast of Frankfurters
I only wish I could lose weight by eating 15 hot dogs. (photo courtesy of flickr)
5. Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Sandwich
You might think I'd actually like this sandwich. On the contrary, I have two huge problems with it. One, they didn't wrap the bacon around the hot dogs. This seems like it would be the obvious thing to do. Wrapping the bacon around the sandwich is a novel approach but it makes the sandwich unstable to eat and difficult to cook. And two, it looks like an armadillo. (photo courtesy of flickr)
--Spanno
Titanium Rings on July 05, 2011 at 08:31 PM
it might be a good idea to look at these pictures of hot dogs and it might help. But this was way back before. I doubt if anyone makes this kinds of recipes today.
car hire perth on January 02, 2012 at 05:39 PM
No wonder why many manufacturers of hotdogs are trying to look like vintage one. Maybe these hotdogs gave them the idea of doing so. Nevertheless, I like the idea on how they made some ornaments using hotdogs.
car hire perth on January 02, 2012 at 05:40 PM
No wonder why many manufacturers of hotdogs are trying to look like vintage one. Maybe these hotdogs gave them the idea of doing so. Nevertheless, I like the idea on how they made some ornaments using hotdogs.