4th of July food

Hot Dogs have suffered from a phallic reputation as long as I have been alive. I smile, and think the King of England would surely have been offended back then. Statistical remarks upon their contents are usually a muted protest of cleanliness and its measurement or enforcement - I know dry cereal (frosted [corn] flakes, Wheaties etc,) suffer the same malady. The human immune system is equally remarkable, and this stuff is cooked (denatured) beyond recognition. Hot Dogs have a high fat percentage. This makes them good to the taste - measurement experts (connoisseurs?) call it SATIETY.

To correct a misconception: Eating sugar (going through the Kreb's Cycle) actually can make you fat. Eating fat doesn't necessarily do that - it might pass undigested through the gut. In like manner, eating genetically modified Corn won't likely affect my own DNA makeup. Short stalk wheat has made it "growable" in places in the world where nothing else would. I'll still complain about the latest application of American cow food. Our Corn doesn't taste good anymore. This may make for excellent competition to Brazil's cane ethanol, but let's face it; the first drought Brazil hits, we'll ALL be in for it. Fortunately these genetically engineered masterpieces are like mules - stop manufacturing, and you get the virile stuff right back, just like before you started jacking with it. They truly DO have seed banks (a concept borrowed from Joseph's accomplishments in Egyptian history if you ask me.)

Satiety measures satisfaction. Other than that, Hot Dogs remind me of the joke in the movie "Payback." It alludes to the fact that Chinese food has good satiety, but soon evaporates in the metabolism. I don't suppose it would starve a person - in fact it can compensate for a glutted or jaded appetite. Whatever the case I'll close with "Porter's" line.

"Beating you up is like kicking a _Chinaman's_ ass; two hours later, you want to do it again!"