• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They also bought 2 hotdog factories to minimize the loss.

    Costco does pay decent as well.

    Could they do better? Yes, but they are pretty decent for employees and consumers.

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      Oh come on, don’t be naïve. They bought two factories so they could switch from “hot dogs” to “mechanically-recovered animal-based byproducts” let’s be realistic

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        Aw man I thought they were still free range prairie dog peckers. Oh wait, they’ve always been cheap sausages.

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          You wouldn’t legally be allowed to call them sausage in the EU 😂

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            Frankfurters and Vienna sausages are the types of sausages used in hot dogs, both legal sausages in the EU.

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              My point is “with a legally mandated meat content in the EU” but the folks in this thread ate so much fucking slop they have no clue what they’re shovelling in their fat faces 😂

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            I’ve never heard anyone refer to a hotdog as a sausage in the states either and I even grew up poor

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              It’s more like everyone knows it’s a sausage. What else could it be? We don’t call them frankfurters either.

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                Yeah I’ve been thinking about it and I can’t find any other way to classify it… even the packaging though doesn’t call it a sausage

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        Do you really expect hot dog sausages to be made from premium meat? They use the scraps that can’t otherwise be used, same as chicken nuggets. This is a good thing. Those sausages and nuggets are perfectly fine to eat and we get to reduce waste.

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        We’re you under the impression any hot dogs were ever anything other than mechanically-recovered animal-based byproducts?

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        They bought the same hotdog factories that they were already buying hotdogs from. It was literally a one-to-one transition.