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Well, at least one person has answered the call for a kinder, gentler dog, patenting a device that he claims will render a hot dog safer to eat. Veteran food inventor Gene Gagliardi, head of Creativators and the mind behind Steak-umm and KFC's Popcorn Chicken, is now pitching the Kinder Cut Hot Dog cutting machines.
The device creates eight strategically placed slits up and down the sides of a hot dog, resulting in smaller pieces when it's chewed. (The cross-cut dog looks a little like an asterisk.) Gagliardi told The Wall Street Journal blog Metropolis that these slits will improve the taste, too. "What we do with the hot dog actually makes it safer and it enhances the flavor of the hot dog," Gagliardi said. "All the slits that open up, the flavors get in there, the condiments get in there."
If it works the way Gagliardi thinks it will, it's easy to imagine the device being used at ballparks, street vendor carts, and everywhere one might think to buy a hot dog. The head of the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, Janet Riley, expressed doubt about a redesign last February, but she seemed more open to the idea when she spoke to the Metropolis several months later. Hot-dog-loving children everywhere can hold out hope -- and so can their parents.
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5-27-2010 @2:35PM JR said... Seriously? Are parents these days so freakin' lazy that they can't just cut the dogs themselves to assure that their kids won't choke. What's next, pre-cut steaks; pre-chewed vegetables; pre-made sandwiches the size of quarters. Come on!
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5-27-2010 @3:30PM Ellen said... Seriously, is right, give me a break. How many hot dogs are you feeding your kids that you need a device to cut them all, there in itself is a problem!!!.....If you are feeding your kid a hot dog, cut it in to tiny pieces, not rocket science!!!!!
5-27-2010 @4:32PM Kel said... This is ridiculous! They already make premaid sandwhiches... that are small, round, crustless and frozen. Thanks Smuckers! just what I always wanted... to be so lazy I can't make a PB&J.
5-27-2010 @7:58PM Al Schrader said... I invented a new spiral shaped hotdog with two spiral grooves that let just eough air through to save a life. Anyone can have the patent for free. ...Alfred-
5-27-2010 @2:37PM sunny said... This is ridiculous.
Why do we have to "redesign" everything because people can't take proper care of their kids.
How are we going to get grapes and peanuts to grow in a safer way?
Kids choke on those too, y'know.
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5-29-2010 @11:19PM Rebekka said... I agree whole heartedly..I mean it's getting out of control..I never choked on a hot dog growing up and I don't know anyone else who did either. Do we really need big brother telling us that our kids are going to choke on something even tho hot dogs have been around for ages and this is a virtually unheard of occurance? Or how about getting rid of toys in happy meals and ronald mcdonald cos kids are getting fat. I grew up on mcdonalds, complete with toys and creepy clown..I was never fat. Kids of my generation and older didn't have these obesity rates even tho McNuggets existed during our childhood..We weren't fat cos we went out and played instead of sitting on our rears day in and day out watching tv or playing video games. And if you don't want a fat kid, don't over feed them. Making them sit at the table till they clear off their plate is just plain stupid. Especially with how much food the stupid parent tends to pile up on the kid's plate.You eat too much and don't move, you're going to get fat..It's not rocket science, and has nothing to do with yummy greasy mcnuggets and fries..
If it's not one thing, it's another, and everyone seems to have a super short memory..They can't remember that these things that big brother is taking away from us 'for our own good' have already existed for many years without issue. They need to quit telling us what we can eat and how we can eat it.
5-28-2010 @1:07PM Mark said... LOL, Grapes... yes we will have to biologically redesign grapes to be square or have holes in the like life savers! This is just another example of alleviating personal responsiblity and blaming manufacturers for not foreseeing our own stupidity and lazyness. I'm surprized no one has sued Oscar Meyer yet. Next hot dogs will have to be labeled "Caution: May Block Airway if Swallowed Improperly." the phrase Caution: Hot Coffee comes to mind.
5-27-2010 @2:58PM Lori said... This is totally idiotic...won't be me wasting my money for that contraption. If you aren't smart enough to cut up your child's food into small pieces then DON'T HAVE KIDS.
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5-27-2010 @2:49PM Vandreyer said... Wow bloody insane. How about people just don't feed their kids crap that will kill them and if they do well it's their own fault whatever happens?
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5-27-2010 @8:29PM Carrie said... Vandreyer has the most intelligent comment...why on earth would you even be feeding any child such garbage loaded with nitrates,high fat & no nutrients. Spend your money on real food iinstead of a tool to keep your kid from choking on crap!
5-27-2010 @3:01PM Joanna said... Americans have to be the stupidest people on earth. The government has to tell us that coffee is hot, buy a knife and it says you could get cut duh. A couple of kids choke on a hot dog and now were going to change them. Kids can choke on anything. It's rediculous.
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5-27-2010 @4:02PM Kristin said... It's not about Americans being stupid (which is debatable), it's about Americans being incredibly litigious (which is a fact). Kid choke on a hot dog? Don't worry! You can always sue Oscar Meyer!
5-27-2010 @4:26PM dowell said... i think it takes more than a couple of kids to comprise 17% of all pediatric axphyxiations. think it's stupid? here's an idea: don't buy one.
5-27-2010 @6:01PM Attorney for X said... Coffee will seem a lot hotter to the touch, if you will, if the lid isn't properly secured. Most especially when being handed through a drive-thru window to someone sitting in a car.
5-30-2010 @2:45PM Powers said... Joanna you are correct but the real problem lies in the legal profession. The only one that is recession proof. Thanks to or pols, their regs and the kickbacks.
5-27-2010 @5:28PM Dick said... Another example of the food police at work. I wish to hell these "experts" would all go away and find something constructive to do. Look, if the kid is too small to eat hot dogs feed him pablum, but leave MY hot dogs alone. I vote we put a bounty on all food police and shoot them on sight. Or maybe just cut eight long slits on them, and grill them over an open fire.
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5-27-2010 @3:08PM Paula said... Children should not be eating hot dogs in the first place since they are not considered healthy. Look at the ingredients; pork scraps, chicken parts, cow stomachs etc. Even the Kosher hot dogs are unsafe since they are nothing but beef scraps. Feed your children decent food such as cooked liver, fish or beef.
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5-27-2010 @4:29PM Glynna said... I often wonder exactly how good a body filter (liver) is for you to ingest...yuck
5-30-2010 @10:34AM Rodeo911 said... Thank God this has finally been addressed. Now we are free to focus on the oils spill and wars....
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5-27-2010 @8:16PM MommyBunny said... My goodness--- while I think it's a waste of money; you can do it just fine with a knife, or, if you're that worried about it, just don't give them the hot dogs--- I don't see the big deal that they have another basically useless unitasker kitchen gadget.
The only reason I even have a garlic press is because I've MADE it a multitasker. I can juice key limes with it as well.
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