Well.........you'll never touch a hot dog again.

By law, excess anatomy like brains, eyeballs, bones, teeth, gums, ears, snouts, intestines and other organs are allegedly placed in a leftover mix called "souse," which goes on to feed creatures lower on the food chain. If a manufacturer chooses to add any of these rather distasteful ingredients to his hot dog recipe, they must be labeled as containing "meat byproducts."

Skeletal muscle is the chief ingredient. Mass-produced hot dogs are made in staggering quantities thanks, or no thanks, to AMR (Advanced Meat Recovery technology). It is within this alien technological environment that skeletal meat is turned into hot dog filling, or MSM (Mechanically Separated Meat.) To make MSM, the bones that remain after the primal cuts have been cut away are forced through an enormous sieve under intense pressure. What comes out the other side is a pinkish, paste-like product that we eventually dress with mustard and relish.

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