{"id":14708,"date":"2015-07-17T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:59:02","slug":"boars-head-hot-dogs-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=14708","title":{"rendered":"Boars Head Hot Dogs Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150715_070822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14710\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150715_070822-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boars Head Franks Review\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s \u201chot dog week\u201d for me, here in the middle of \u201cNational Hot Dog Month,\u201d and in advance of \u201cNational Hot Dog Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, I don&#8217;t need an official designation to celebrate hot dogs, I love them and they are a part of my regular \u201cdiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m especially fond of natural casing dogs, unfortunately, most of America isn&#8217;t, NC&#8217;s make up less than five percent of the hot dogs sold in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Especially an all beef dog, with minimal additives and preservatives, that&#8217;s the ticket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today I&#8217;m having <a href=\"http:\/\/boarshead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boar&#8217;s Head <\/a>weenies, a company that started in the early 1900s in Brooklyn, and is now a national manufacturer and distributor of real size, sell sausages, deli meat, cheese, and condiments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Boar&#8217;s Head dog ingredient list is short: beef, water, paprika, salts, flavorings in a sheep casing. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Around here, they are about $7.50 a pound, or a buck a dog, and that seems to be the price point for most quality NC dogs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Boar&#8217;s Head I can depend on and purchase almost anywhere in the country. When I&#8217;m in the Midwest, I like one from a brand called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2013\/07\/home-cookin-wisconsin-wieners\/\">Old Wisconsin<\/a>,\u201d and of course, the legendary Chicago manufacturer, Vienna Beef.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a dog or ten to celebrate the month and grillin&#8217; season! \u00a0Boar&#8217;s Head are manufactured in their plant at Jarratt, VA, USDA establishment number\u00a0M12612, pictured below. \u00a0Jarratt is on I-95, about 40 miles south of Richmond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14712\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boars-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14712\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boars-2.jpg\" alt=\"Boars Head Franks Review\" width=\"421\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boar&#8217;s Head Virginia Plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boars Head Hot Dogs Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s \u201chot dog week\u201d for me, here in the middle of \u201cNational Hot Dog Month,\u201d and in advance of \u201cNational Hot Dog Day.\u201d Well, I don&#8217;t need an official designation to celebrate hot dogs, I love them and they are a part of my regular \u201cdiet.\u201d I&#8217;m especially fond of natural casing dogs, unfortunately, most&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=14708\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boars Head Hot Dogs Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,15],"tags":[695,2406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}