[firebrand]

No one has yet explaned why the present shape is dangerous. Do the kids jam them down their throats? Do they take too big a bite? Is it the ones that have skin? How will they change the shape?

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.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[freeangel]

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.

[sergeantdave]

Cut up the hot dog and throw it in a can of beans. We could call it C-Rats.