From USA Today’s On Deadline Blog:
Offbeat: Try a reindeer hot dog
In a food world where hot dogs are sometimes derided as mixed meat castoffs, a hot dog in the news today comes straight from the Island of Misfit Toys. It’s a reindeer hot dog, on the menu at a hot dog stand in the Chicago suburbs, the Sun-Times reports.
The owner of Glenview’s fRedhots and Fries, Fred Markoff (thus “fRedhots”), tells the paper he got the idea after he tasted a reindeer dog in Alaska. Now he’s considering a Rudolph-inspired display involving his hot dog and a grape tomato.
The dog, like Markoff’s smoked alligator and pork sausage, is more complicated than plain beef exotica, the story explains. “It’s actually a blend of reindeer meat, beef and pork. Because reindeer meat is so lean, it needs fat to add flavor. An all-reindeer hot dog would just taste like ‘rubber,’ said Cathy Drum, whose family owns Indian Valley Meats.”
Here is the link to the original story
Can you imagine explaining this to your children??