Posted on 09/22/2016 7:53:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PERTH, Australia, - The "Hamdog" a combination between a hot dog and a hamburger created by an Australian man will soon come to the United States.
A post on the Hamdog Facebook page announced the food combination would come to South Australia and the U.S. and was seeking retailers in those regions.
"America's a bloody big place, they consume around 50 billion burgers a year," inventor Mark Murray told CNBC. "If we pick up even 1 percent of that market, then that's still around $2.5 billion a year."
Murray said he came up with the idea for the meat-filled combination, which includes a special bun to accommodate both the burger and the hot dog, while incredibly hungry during a trip to the U.S. in 2004.
"I had the idea on holiday when I was leaving a bar in Nashville. I grabbed a burger and a hot dog as I was really hungry," he said. "I was sitting in the car eating them both at the same time and my wife was looking at me like I was an idiot."
He later took the invention to Australia's "Shark Tank" television investment show, where it was rejected by the judges.
It has since been sold at sporting events in Australia for about $6 each.
"The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama's best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.
"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)," the president wrote. "Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.
He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.""
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/obama-ate-dog-meat-as-a-boy.html
Circle K convenience stores used to sell something called a cheeseburger dog. It was like what you are describing -—hotdog-shaped ground beef and pork with bits of cheese right inside the weiner.
It was cooked on the rotisserie thingy with the regular hotdogs, and you put it on a hotdog bun, and load up with condiments.
I tried one. It was ok, not great, IMO.
One at a time for me, too. I do love a sausage or chili dog. I've had Hebrew Nationals, but it's overkill to put chili on them. Best dogs for good chili are the el cheapo deluxe.
Lol! You never fail to come up with a great animated .gif response! You are the Harpo Marx (silent comedian) of FR. :)
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Don't ask... Link to "game" didn't work.
Eeeeeew!
Don’t be squeamish; they’re “inverted”. (whatever that means...)
I’ve seen hotdogs being made, from the chicken heads, chicken feet, lamb heads and cows tails to the red dye injected finished product. Never ate another one in 40 plus years.
:-(
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