Organic unthinkable meat scraps
An interesting article in the NY Times today about the rise in organic hot dogs. Interestingly, the overall trend in hot dogs is downward. Micah's certainly not responsible for that. He can eat his age in those things. Here's my favorite quote from the article:
[One woman] often buys packages with an organic label, however uneasily. After all, they're still hot dogs. "I really have to try not to think too hard about the fact that organic unthinkable meat scraps are still unthinkable meat scraps," Ms. Slonosky said.The reasonable reader (and, certainly, the reasonable vegetarian reader) might be wondering why Ms. Slonosky gives her family hot dogs at all. But that reader probably does not have children and has never worried about getting enough protein into their little carb-stuffed bodies. Besides, why try to deny a kid a hot dog?
Why try indeed? We started buying turkey franks after MIcah's obsession with them began. They were five or six grams of fat a piece, which still seemed a little high. Then I looked at Ball Park's--25 grams or more. What had we been eating all those years!?