Hot Dog Flavored Candy Canes: Pass the Mustard

Self-proclaimed (and accurate) ‘maker of weird’ Archie McPhee is introducing these Hot Dog Candy Canes just in time for the Christmas season. The red-and-white canes come in six-packs for $6.50 and “taste like sweet, meaty hot dogs.” Unfortunately, the flavor does not include condiments, so you’ll need to lick a ketchup-flavored candy cane immediately afterward for the full hot dog eating experience.

Personally, I feel like hot dogs are hands down the perfect food provided you don’t care about nutrition or your own personal health. Besides that though, absolutely delicious. I’ve even been known to eat cold wieners right out of the package first thing in the morning. My wife says it’s gross, but I say it’s all part of a perfectly-unbalanced breakfast.

Like the previously posted ketchup flavored candy canes, I like how these look just like traditional peppermint canes, so my nieces and nephews won’t know the difference until it’s too late and they’re retching and I’m laughing and my brother and sister are upset with me. Ah, the holidays, am I right?

[via BoingBoing]

We Relish This Hot Dog Coffee Table

We just passed National Hot Dog Day, but it’s never too late to get yourself some delicious frankfurters. Now, thanks to the guys at Idiot Box Artwork, you can enjoy a hot dog in your living room every day of the year.

This amusing and appetizing coffee table features a cartoony image of a gigantic hot dog on its surface. Each one cut into the shape of a hot dog on a bun, hand-painted with the ballpark meal on its surface, then sealed with thick coats of resin to make it smooth and shiny. I prefer mustard and relish on my hot dogs, but mustard and resin will have to do if you buy this table.

The Hot Dog! It’s a Coffee Table sells for $700 over at the Idiot Box website, where you can also find Super Mario, Kool-Aid, and Pickle Rick coffee tables.

Oscar Mayer Grows its Fleet of Wieners

Out of all the lunch meat companies out there, Oscar Mayer clearly has the largest wiener. I mean it’s wiener is so massive that it rides around on four wheels and has a driver inside. That is one big wiener, it’s like the John Holmes of processed lunch meats. Now, the company has now unveiled an entire fleet of wieners and while they aren’t all as big and bulbous as the classic Wienermobile, they all share similarly impressive girth and turgor since they all appear to be made from fiberglass.

The classic Wienermobile leads the Wienerfleet, followed by the Wienermini, which is perfect for those times when the full wiener is just too big. If the space is still too tight for the Wienermini, you can step down to the new Wienercycle that is agile, and able to fit into tight spaces with minimal work and effort.

If the Wienercycle is still too much, the next rung down the wiener ladder is the 43″ long Wiener Rover. It’s an all-terrain R/C car that zips along at speed delivering wieners to consumers no matter the terrain so long as battery power holds out.

The last of the Wienerfleet is the smallest and it’s a flying wiener dubbed the Wienerdrone. Its mission is to drop wieners on people from the sky. It’s raining wieners y’all.

You can check out the entire Wienerfleet in action in the video below:

Cooking a Hot Dog with 4,000° Thermite

There’s nothing more fascinating than watching stuff melt. That’s why the Let’s Melt This channel set a hot dog, ketchup, mustard, and relish in a glass dish full of thermite. Thermite can burn with temperatures over 4,000° Fahrenheit, so this stuff is no joke.

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If you have ever wondered how a hot dog would cook with thermite, here is your answer. Look no further. Apparently July was national hot dog month, so they received a request to destroy a hot dog any way they could. Naturally, they obliged and thought that incineration at 5 times the temperature of the surface of Mercury would be a good way to do it.

I’m glad there’s no music in the video, since the sound of sizzling thermite is pretty cool. Enjoy.

[via Laughing Squid]

Matt Stonie Upsets Joey Chestnut to Become the New Hot Dog Eating Champion


The eight-time Hog Dog Eating champion Joey Chestnut was all set for another win in this year’s Nathan’s famous Hot Dot Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York to make it nine in a row.But it was...

Guy Uses 8.5-Ton Excavator to Make a Hot Dog, Feed It to His Friend

In this this new commercial for Statoil gas stations in Norway, a construction worker uses an 8.5-ton excavator to prepare a hot dog and feed it to his friend. Safely.

This takes some serious skill. I’m not saying I couldn’t do it. I could. But I would knock that guys face off, break all of his teeth, and probably drop the hot dog in his face-hole.

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First he uses the excavator to pick up the bun, then split the bun, add some lettuce, the hot dog, onions and condiments, then delivers the hot dog right to the other guy’s mouth.

I gotta say, this excavator makes one nice looking hot dog. One day we fat, lazy Americans will have smaller home machines to feed us like this.

[via Ads of the World via Laughing Squid]

Krispy Kreme Bacon Hot Dog Donut: I CAN HAZ?!

Normally I like to keep my sweet foods segregated from my salty foods. It’s one of my things. One of the few exceptions I make to this rule is dipping my breakfast sausage into syrup, that is some fine eatin’ right there. Krispy Kreme and single-A baseball team the Wilmington Blue Rocks have a food concoction that I might make another exception to my segregation rule for.

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This hot dog is crammed inside a Krispy Kreme donut and topped with bacon. Bacon really makes everything better.The hot dog as it’s called looks more like a small sausage to me, which would make more sense. Toss one of those breakfast sausages into this thing and I’m all in. The image also looks like the dog is slathered in raspberry jelly.

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If the snack item is popular at the ballpark, it might find its way into the Krispy Kreme stores around the country.

[via Ksat]

KFC Double Down Dog Replaces Hot Dog Buns with Chicken

I’m not a huge fan of hot dogs to begin with. I look at them sort of the same way I look at fish; I might eat one once a year at most. Every now and again, I get a hankering for a Sonic foot long chili cheese, but as soon as I am done eating it, I remember why I never order one.

KFC previously rolled out the rather weird Double Down sandwich that crams bacon and cheese between two pieces of chicken. Now KFC has rolled out an ever stranger entree – the Double Down Dog.

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It replaces the hot dog bun with a curved piece of chicken. The whole works is then covered in cheese. The Double Down Dog rolled out in the Philippines to begin with. Whether or not it will come to the U.S. remains to be seen.

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If they released out the Double Down Sandwich here, I’d wager the Dog is coming too. It looks so gross.

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[via Kotaku]

Mike Ditka’s Spicy Jumbo Dikta Dog Added to Al’s Beef Menu


Mike Dikta's "Spicy Jumbo Ditka Dog" has been added to Al's Beef menu.The new delicacy was added to celebrate National Hot Dog Month, per The Chicago Tribune's Luis Gomez: "Happy National Hot...

Ham Dogger Lets You Cook up Burgers in the Guise of Hotdogs

I think hamburgers and hot dogs are fine as they are. But if you’ve ever wanted to eat your hamburgers just as you’d eat hot dogs, then there’s something called the Ham Dogger that’ll help you do it.

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The Ham Dogger is shaped like an empty hot dog bun. The space is where you’re supposed to put your raw hamburger patty mixture in so you can shape the patties like – you guessed it! – hot dogs. The product page boasts that you won’t have to buy two different kinds of buns ever again, which is economical (if not a little silly) in a sense.

Kitchen Art Ham Dogger1It’s available online from Amazon for about $10(USD), but if you don’t want to fork over ten bucks for it, then you can probably just roll your patties this way and that to achieve the same hot dog effect.