{"id":1832,"date":"2022-07-27T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2022-07-27T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:33:10","slug":"hot-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/hot-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s summertime, the season for hot dogs.\u00a0
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There have always been two great mysteries surrounding the quintessential American snack:\u00a0 What are they really made of?\u00a0 And who actually invented them?
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The first mystery has become the stuff of urban legend \u2013 as in, why does one never see a stray dog sniffing around an Oscar Mayer plant?
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The FDA assures us that our worst nightmares have not in fact come true.\u00a0 \u201cWieners\u201d are generally comprised of various cuts of pork, chicken, and turkey, while \u201cfranks\u201d come from the beef side of the market.\u00a0 There are of course numerous additives \u2013 seasonings, colorings, sodium, fillers, and the like \u2013 which is why hot dogs look and taste so good.
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Americans put away more than 20 billion hot dogs a year.\u00a0 That works out to something like 70 per person.\u00a0
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If you\u2019ve just done a quick personal tally and are certain that you couldn\u2019t possibly have eaten more than a dozen so far this year, it should be dawning on you that some of your fellow citizens \u2013 even those not named Joey Chestnut \u2013 are eating heroic numbers of hot dogs.\u00a0 \u00a0
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The second hot dog mystery \u2013 the one about origins \u2013 is a vexing one for historians.
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A handful of entrepreneurs claim to have launched the wiener-and-frank revolution sometime during the past 150 years, and each candidate has enthusiastic supporters.
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There\u2019s Antoine Feuchtwanger, for instance, a Bavarian immigrant who sold hot sausages on the streets of St. Louis in 1880.\u00a0 He even let his customers borrow a pair of gloves so they wouldn\u2019t burn their fingers.\u00a0 But when a number of customers walked off happily with new gloves, his wife suggested serving the sausages on a roll instead.\u00a0
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Then there was the enterprising Englishman Harry Stevens.\u00a0 Sometime before 1920 he discovered that baseball fans really love eating hot sausage snacks.\u00a0 He called his creations Dachshund sandwiches.\u00a0 Tad Dorgan, the cartoonist for the New York Post<\/em>, couldn\u2019t spell \u201cdachshund.\u201d\u00a0 Therefore when he illustrated fans chowing down on their favorite new food, he called them \u201chot dogs.\u201d\u00a0
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This of course did nothing to suppress the rumors of canine constituents, but Stevens loved the name nonetheless.\u00a0 He became America\u2019s first sports concessionaire and earned far more money than most of the players on the field.
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Hot dog carts \u2013 the 1920s version of food trucks \u2013 began to appear near American factories.\u00a0 When workers hesitated to sample the \u201cmystery meat,\u201d some of the cart owners dressed their friends in white medical jackets and encouraged them to eat a hot dog every day within sight of the crowds.\u00a0 If doctors eat hot dogs, they must fine.\u00a0 Right?
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And so people gradually learned not to worry overly much about hot dog purity.
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Unfortunately, the same thing seems to have happened with regard to the purity of human character.\u00a0 Maybe people are like hot dogs.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just enjoy each other.\u00a0 Do we really have to worry about what\u2019s inside?\u00a0
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That may be the spirit of our times, but it\u2019s impossible to overlook that every organized religion is ultimately concerned with some kind of spiritual purity, mastery, or integrity.
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Religions generally fall into two categories:\u00a0those that preach purity as a personal achievement, and those that preach purity as a gift that God alone can give.
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The Way of Jesus falls into Category 2.\u00a0 According to Jesus, God never says, \u201cOh, just sin just a little bit, and things will work out in the end.\u201d\u00a0 God asks for utter purity<\/em> \u2013 and then, incomprehensibly, treats those who trust Jesus for forgiveness as if <\/em>they had lived up to that impossible standard.
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The only response that seems appropriate to such an arrangement is Wow.\u00a0<\/em>
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Although some may even be led to say Hot Dog!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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