Carrot Hot Dogs

Who needs a pig when you’ve got a carrot? Everything you love about hot dogs (fat, salt, smokiness, texture, and familiarity), minus the harm.

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Don’t get me wrong -- I love the commercial vegan hot dogs out there (have you tried Field Roast’s amazing frankfurters?). But, practically speaking, my refrigerator is never devoid of carrots, and this is the most creative use of these carotenoid sticks that I’ve ever seen.

And remember, animal meat tastes good, because fat and salt taste good — and because we flavor meat with plants.

We’re the only animal who eats other animals who has to flavor the flesh to make it palatable. We’re also the only animal who eats other animals who has to cook the flesh first to avoid being harmed by pathogens we’re not biologically equipped to handle. (True carnivores have highly acidic stomachs, short digestive tracts, and immune systems designed to process raw flesh — we don’t. Humans are not true carnivores.)

The bottom line is we don’t crave the flesh of animals, but what we do crave — or at least desire — is fat, salt, texture, flavor, and familiarity. And that’s why…carrot hot dogs. All the fat, salt, smokiness, texture, flavor, and familiarity. None of the harm.