"Nathan's Famous" sold

[chromedome]

The hot dog maker's new owner is Smithfield. 

https://apnews.com/article/nathans-famous-hot-dogs-smithfield-merger-9927a1f0fde1ff32c2f95dc4949d3dfd

[AlaMoi]

. . . . and . . . Smithfield Foods is majority owned by a Chinese company . . .

[weinoo]

Time for everyone to switch to Sabrett's.

[rotuts]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a3DCzZ2cmQ

 

[Maison Rustique]

Yeah, I think Smithfield's owns most of the pork producers here in the midwest now, too.

[rotuts]

apparently , Sabrett's has ground bones in it :

 

 

just not too big ones 

 

( bins get X-rayed )

 

maybe all HD do ?

[weinoo]

On 1/22/2026 at 1:46 PM, rotuts said:

apparently , Sabrett's has ground bones in it :

 

Why do you think they're so delicious?!

[rotuts]

@weinoo

 

Im no sure I do .

 

hey toss out any bins a bones // steel chips out.

 

they should cut the bin contents in 1/2 , and X-ray again , etc.

 

some some potential Dogs.

[KennethT]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

@weinoo

 

Im no sure I do .

 

hey toss out any bins a bones // steel chips out.

 

they should cut the bin contents in 1/2 , and X-ray again , etc.

 

some some potential Dogs.

Most food products go through a metal detector looking for metal fragments prior to packaging.  I don't know if hot dogs do, but most candy/chocolate bars do.  If the bone was finely ground, I can't imagine it would be harmful - just some extra calcium (although maybe not absorbable)...

[liuzhou]

3 hours ago, KennethT said:

Most food products go through a metal detector looking for metal fragments prior to packaging.  I don't know if hot dogs do, but most candy/chocolate bars do. 

 

Indeed. And have done so for decades. Back in 1970, as a student, I had a lousy summer job in a London candy/chocolate factory. Everything went through a metal detector. If you cut your finger, you had to use a special Bandaid type dressing with metal wires embedded within so that if it fell off into the mix, it would be detected. Put me off chocolate for years. That was almost 60 years ago!