The Sunday Magazine19:01Relishing the cultural and historical impact of hot dogs with Jamie Loftus
Writer and comedian Jamie Loftus has, in her own words, been “obsessed” with a video about how hot dogs are made since she was in college.
The five-minute video, taken from a 2008 episode of the show How It’s Made, details the factory process of turning scraps of meat into the eight-packs of wieners seen everywhere in North America from school lunchrooms to baseball stadiums.
In one shot, pink-grey emulsified meat — spiked with spices, water and corn syrup — oozes out of a metal pipe, looking more like soft-serve ice
