Posted on 02/26/2010 6:48:17 PM PST by raptor22
Believe it or not, the government is about to regulate the shape of hot dogs. Bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are studying how to change the shape of hot dogs to prevent youngsters from choking. As a result, recent headlines have warned about "killer hot dogs" and "Doctors urging for a safer, choke-free hot dog."
It's true that compared to some other foods, hot dogs seem to present a slightly higher risk. Of the 66 to 77 choking deaths for children younger than 10 in 2006, hot dogs reportedly accounted for about 11 to 13 deaths. But this claim of relative risk isn't conclusive because there has been no attempt to account for the fact that children might be eating more hot dogs than other types of food.
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Call them “healthcare hot dogs”. Then you can cram them down, sight unseen, with gubbermint blessing.
This seems to be interfering for the sake of interfering. You know, just take their favorite, iconic foods and screw them up. Just so they know who's boss.
***No, we auction estates, and often find marbles still around; people trapped them in jars so they could do no more harm.***
I hope said jars have government approved lids. It’s just too scary to think there are marbles still out there!
“I hope said jars have government approved lids. It’s just too scary to think there are marbles still out there!”
I’m dailing my congress-critter as we speak.
“What’s the problem? Linda Lovelace used to eat two-foot long Chicago Style kielbasas.”
They will probably have her teach headstart classes. Saftey first!
You still have a phone with a dail?
“Those extra hot dogs are the ones you give to your pets and they don’t like buns”
i’m laughing my ass off right now.. That’s funny!
It’s an esspression. ;0)
Because of the 10 weiners that go on the Weber you drop one on the ground and the dog eats it before you can blink. Another falls through the grill and incinerates itself, leaving 8 half-blackened and shriveled frankfurters.
Learn the Heimlich Maneuver. The Red Cross offers a reasonably-priced online course, even. Children put much stupider and more dangerous things in their mouths than hot dogs.
You can also get buns in packs of 12, and feed two to the dog.
Oh, please. I’m a boomer and had five siblings. Even back then, I remember mom cutting up hot dogs for the younger ones so they wouldn’t choke. Of course, common sense has flow out the window ever since the idiot who spilled hot coffee on themselves sued McDonalds.
I’ve got plenty of them. I just need to keep refillin’ on the ammo. ;)
Ah-HA! That explains it. :)
Cut up the hot dog and throw it in a can of beans. We could call it C-Rats.
hot dogs have been around for almost a century and every once in a while someone chokes on one, that happens with every food. Parents should know that some foods need to be cut into very-small pieces.
Can you imagine places like rutt’s going out of business because of some nanny-state, draconian regulations?
We’ll go Galt with Rutt’s Hut before that happens.
Correct. Somebody remind these cretins that you can choke on tofu as well.
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