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Oscar Mayer All Meat Wieners do not contain esophagi, ears, lips and snouts; they do not contain poultry meat or "binders" like dried milk, cereal or flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1972 | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...long ago, for example, it was difficult to pulverize poultry cheaply; now hot-dog manufacturers enthusiastically chicken out, cramming up to 15% of their sausages with bird parts. Poultry is one of the more appetizing ingredients. Federal law allows hot dogs to contain such animal features as esophagi, ears, lips and snouts. In the words of Robert Benchley: "Ain't it offal?" And even these ingredients do not exhaust the bad news. Hot dogs are brimming with additives, including sodium nitrite, sodium acid pyrophosphate and glucona delta lactone. Without such chemicals, the hot dog would lose its pink blush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...sprays. They worked fine. Within three days after the operations, Dr. Berman's dogs were wolfing down normal meals. Later examinations showed the surgeon that tissue and some mucous membrane had grown up along the outer walls of the plastic tubes, giving the dogs what amounted to new esophagi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Lane | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Stomach Pains. In Boston, iS-month-old Thomas Ethier added the plastic bookbinding he had swallowed to the Children's Hospital's collection of pins, pebbles, teeth, political campaign buttons and other knickknacks removed from young larynges, esophagi and bronchial tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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