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Tech NewsDead Drop: The Human Is an Animal That Schemes
Why do Americans apply the word “murder” to “murder hornets”? This is a question that The New Yorker asked on Wednesday. “A murder requires premeditation. We don’t speak of bears or tigers murdering people,” the author explained while laying out their thought process. They suspect that the monicker is a mangled translation of the Japanese … Continued
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ReviewsHome Entertainment & Smart HomeIt Pains Me to Report This Hot Dog Toaster Is a Piece of Shit
God, I love hot dogs. My parents used to reward me with the cheap and oh-so-delicious hot dogs from Costco for making it through a Sunday afternoon shopping session, so that’s probably why I love them so much. The reward center of my brain lights up every time I see or smell them. So when … Continued
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ScienceHealthIrate Polish Dog Lovers Flame Costco on Facebook for Abandoning Their Beloved Sausage
People who fall in the center of the Venn diagram of warehouse club membership and processed meat fandom are angry about Costco’s recent decision to remove a beloved item from its menu—and are logging on to vent their rage. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times reported that Costco would stop serving Polish dogs in its … Continued
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Snap CEO on Company Earnings: The Dancing Hot Dog Was Loved by All
Despite sounding pretty screwed during its second-ever investor call on Thursday, Snapchat had a teeny nugget of good news to share. “Our dancing hot dog is likely the world’s very first augmented reality superstar,” said billionaire Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on a webcast with investors. The dancing dog has been seen more than 1.5 billion … Continued
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Tech NewsOscar Mayer Made a Drone to Rain Hot Dogs Down on Humanity
As is currently en vogue for any company making a product that ends up in consumers’ hands, Oscar Mayer is expanding its Wienermobile fleet with a phallic flying drone that can (supposedly) drop a single hot dog on someone not too worried about what they’re eating. If Silicon Valley had its way, we’d only eat … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSlo-Mo Footage of a Mouse Trap Decapitating a Hot Dog Will Make Your Entire Body Recoil
The folks at YouTube’s Warped Perception channel promise that this video simply shows a mouse trap slicing through a plain old hot dog. But when filmed at a mind-boggling 147,000 frames per second, it’s hard not to imagine the same thing happening to a finger accidentally getting caught in there—or something, uh, a little more … Continued
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Pizza Hut’s new hot dog pizza crust pizza is here to murder food forever
Hot dogs and pizza are an underrated combination so Pizza Hut decided to Frankenstein the two together with a new ridiculous pizza: a pizza with a crust made from 28 mini hot dogs. Like 28 pigs in a blanket surrounding a pizza. Like a hot dog moat around a pizza castle. Like two pizzas in … Continued
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KFC’s Double Down hot dog is a sausage wrapped in a fried chicken bun
Here is proof that there’s always more horrifying Frankenfood left to be invented and more stomachs to destroy with fast food: the Double Down hot dog. It’s KFC’s take on a hot dog only instead of using a regular hot dog bun, KFC is whipping out a bun made with fried chicken. It looks ridiculous. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidTiny hamster eats tiny hot dogs faster than any human can
It’s kind of funny how our favorite tiny hamster looks exactly like Kobayashi, the famous competitive eater, while mowing down hot dogs. They’re using the same method! The hamster looks much cuter though. Much cuter. Don’t worry, the tiny hamster was fed healthy mini dogs made out of grapes, dates and carrots. Kobayashi had to … Continued
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Behind the Scenes at the San Francisco 49ers’ New High Tech Stadium
Candlestick’s out and Levi’s Stadium has been officially christened as the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. The brand-spanking-new site is all kinds of wired up and ready to receive upwards of 70,000 smartphone-wielding fans. I went behind the scenes to see how the tech has come together. Are you ready for some football? … Continued
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How Hot Dogs Are Made and What’s Actually Inside
After the steaks, chops, breasts, ribs, thighs, hams, tenderloins and briskets are removed, there’s a fair amount of gristle, fat and offal remaining on a butchered animal, and early on, people realized this could be put to good use. One of these products is the hot dog, a classic of pre-cooked, processed meat. Trimmings The … Continued
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Twist Up a Spiral Dog With the Cyclone Weiner Slicer
Tornado hot dogs are the biggest thing since spiral cut ham on sliced bread. By carving a groove into the link around a meaty central core, the dog not only cooks faster with crispy edges but it also holds more condiments and prevents them from slopping out with each bite. The Cyclone hot dog slicer … Continued
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Chefs of the World Rejoice: Your Days of Painstakingly Dicing Hot Dogs Are Over
Do you hear that? That cheering off in the distance? That’s the sound of a million amateur chefs celebrating the fact that they no longer have to spend several minutes dicing hot dogs for their casseroles, easy meatloaf, or awful jello moulds. Because the Dog Dicer can turn a hot dog into a pile of … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Scientists Discover Millions of Hidden Black Holes Eating Hot DOGs
Scientists have detected millions of previously hidden supermassive black holes surrounding us, some of them busily eating a thousand of newly discovered “extremely bright and extremely rare” galaxies called hot DOGs (Dust-Obscured Galaxies). Astronomy is fun! Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers have been able to locate a staggering amount of these supermassive black … Continued
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Can Food/Life Get Any Better Than Spiral Hot Dogs? (Answer: NO, NO IT CAN’T)
Life is wondrous, my friends. How can we not be elated to have the privilege of experiencing this astonishing planet and all the marvels that it contains? Perhaps you aren’t sure? It’s fine. Behold, the spiral hot dog. Spellbound. It only requires hotdogs, a knife and a long drill bit. Pleasure and joy was never … Continued
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Did hot dogs save us from colon cancer?
After 1978, two strangely related things happened: a new set of regulations for processed meat limited the amount of nitrite used in hot dogs, forcing manufacturers to add ascorbate or erythorbate instead. And the following that year, there was a major dropoff in colon cancer deaths. Now, researchers are questioning the link between the two. … Continued
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Tech NewsA Good Day for Vices: Coffee Is Healthy and Hot Dogs Aren’t As Bad As You Thought
Nitrates in hot dogs have had a menacing reputation since the ’70s, and doctors are constantly telling us to drink coffee in moderation. But I have excellent news to report today: hot dogs don’t seem to cause cancer and coffee can actually protect you from it. Let’s start with hot dogs, which are near and … Continued
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Doctors: Hot Dogs Are as Bad as Cigarettes
A new release by the non-profit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says the processed meat in hot dogs carries a cancer risk on par with cigarettes, USA Today reports. True? Well, there’s something you should know about the PCRM first. Although hot dogs are definitely not the gourmet snack of the health conscious vanguard—and pack … Continued
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