Custom Box Service runs a cafeteria of sorts for its employees. Every week, I make a trip to Costco to restock the fridge and cupboards. The Schwan’s man comes once a month.
You might think that a group of Mexican guys would eat a lot of burritos and quesadillas and chimichangas, and you’d be right. Lately, though, this traditional faire has been supplanted by a single delicacy from Costco:
Mini bagel dogs.
That’s right: my predominantly Mexican crew cannot get enough of mini bagel dogs.
These tender morsels, produced by Sinai Kosher (“Kosher never tasted so good!”) are just like the wiener wraps that you remember from the grade-school cafeteria, except that they’re made with a diminutive dog wrapped in bagel dough instead of bread dough.
The crew currently eats, at a minimum, one bag of mini bagel dogs each day. Jesus eats the most mini bagel dogs. He ate 105 mini bagel dogs last pay period. The pay period contained twelve days. Jesus is eating nine mini bagel dogs a day, almost two bags a week. The rest of the crew — three guys in the shop and the four Roth boys — eat about three bags a week.
They are good, but should the crew really be eating a bag of them every day?
Each bag of Sinai Kosher mini bagel dogs (“bagel dough wrapped around kosher beef cocktail franks”) contains about 28 mini bagel dogs. According to the nutrition facts, each mini bagel dog contains:
- approximately 62.5 calories
- approximately 3 grams of fat (1 gram of which is saturated fat)
- 5mg of cholesterol
- 130mg of sodium
- 7 grams of carbohydrates (with only a trace of fiber)
- and 2 grams of protein
A mini bagel dog contains no appreciable vitamin content. Four of these pups make a serving.
The mini bagel dogs contain the following ingredients:
Dough: enriched wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, iron, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, folic acid), water, vegetable shortening (contains shortening chips made from hydrogenated soybean oil), dehydrated onions, sugar, yeast, malt, dehydrated eggs, salt, dough conditioner (sugar, salt, malt barley flour, mono-diglycerides, wheat gluten, calcium sulfate, ascorbic acid, enzyme), calcium propionate (added to retard spoilage).
Frankfurter: Beef, water, corn syrup, salt, natural flavorings, isolated soy protein, dextrose, sodium erythorbate, extractives of paprika, sodium nitrite.
Mmmmmmmm…
I’d probably be a much healthier person if we didn’t run this cafeteria.
I bought some strawberries at Costco yesterday. They’re “California coastal” strawberries — whatever that means — and, as you’d expect from strawberries picked at the end of January, they’re not very good. Still: they’re strawberries, and I’m eating them in the dead of winter. You can’t beat that!
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Proof positive that the American ability to supply fat, cholesterol and sugar is unparalleled by anyone anywhere in the world. This is why the French fear us!! The United States, taking over the world 350 calories at a time.