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oh my, you've been eating not 1, but 4 animals.

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Vienna "All Beef" Hot Dogs Are Made With Sheep, Pigs

Sorry Chicagoans, your beloved Vienna "100% All Beef" hot dogs are actually encased in sheep and pigs, according to a recently settled class action suit. Under the settlement, all class members—anyone in the U.S. who bought a Vienna hot dog at a hot dog stand in the past five years—are entitled to $3 per consumed hog dog. Learn how to submit your claim, inside...

Send the following in an email to lance@caclawyers.com:

1. Your full name, Your address, your phone number;
2. The number of years you have lived there;
3. Your telephone number and contact information;
4. Name of the location(s) where you ate the product - store bought products are NOT at issue, only hot dog stands;
5. Address of the location(s);
6. Date or "approximate" date, month or year of eating at the location(s);
7. What exactly was eaten, was it a 1) jumbo hot-dog, 2) a polish sausage or 3) a foot long hot dog;
8. Receipts if possible, (if not, that is ok too);
9. A sample of the product along with the wholesale box lid or box itself, (if not, that is ok too); and
10. Reason why don’t you eat pork, or sheep (religious reason, moral, health, allergic, migraines).

Vienna has also agreed to warn consumers through their website and promotional materials that their hot dogs may contain sheep or pork.

Yummy!

In Re Vienna Beef Ltd. Litigation: CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT INFORMATION [The Consumer Advocacy Center]
Just in Time for Lunch: Hot Dogs & the Law, Part I [Wall Street Journal Law Blog]
(Photo: Meghann Marco)



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Bleh, hot dogs. They have a nice flavor, but it's pretty rare to find one that isn't basically made up of the leftover parts of other meat products. Finding out that a supposedly "100% beef" hot dog is not in fact 100% beef does not surprise me in the least.



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Who doesn't love some pork or lambchop, they could charge more for these if they made it public.



That is why I eat Hebrew National, they answer to a higher authority.

I like Nathan's, too. But that's because I like my dogs to snap. (At the restaurant, not in the packages)



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

Mmmmm, and sodium nitrites. I love splitting my own DNA!



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Sounds like you're getting more for your money to me.



Psh. Meats meat.



I never knew that pig and sheep could taste so delicious.



Hi, this is Vince with Shamwow.

eh, whatever, as long as it tastes good I don't care :P



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Doesn't suprise me!

I love it when the Simpsons had the diagram that shown a pigeon and a boot as ingrediants for hot dogs! That was great.



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