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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We are still on a bageldog search. My husband looks everytime we are in a new store. We live in the DFW area but havent run across any yet. Has anyone else had any luck?
If any one is interested in bagel dogs i make them and am trying to get them in the grocery store as we speak i am working on the formal packaging but the are for sale if interested my email is [email protected] i also have bagel brats
I have not found a supplier on the internet of the Best’s Bagel Dogs at all. I know tha Vons in Southern California carries them, but only sporadically. I am in the process of trying to talk to the Von’s Deli purchasing agent of the corporation to carry it as a regular product. They only carry 6 bags at a time at my store. So I bought all 6.
My family is looking for Bagel Dogs, too. We bought them at our Sam’s Club, I still look everything we shop at Sam’s, but haven’t yet. We live in Northwest Louisiana, 180 east of DFW.
I just noticed that “market day” a school fundraising food company is advertising bagel dogs, seasonally. If you go to “www.marketday.com” you can do a search for them and order them from there. I don’t know how good they will be, but its an option.
At a Von’s in San Diego i found “Dr. Steins Mini Beef Bagel Dogs” the other day. A general yahoo search of the above will net you the manufacturer and how to order from them. I too am a victim of eating the original bagel dogs from Costco. My grandma was always at Costco buying food and would buy the Mt. Sinai dogs for me. I loved them. The Dr. Steins dogs are an almost exact match. Only the bagel is different; there are no poppy seeds in it.
Hi, Im looking for help in two areas.. First any one who might have some inside track advise for someone looking into becoming a food broker. Is it possible,(possible meaning feasibly profitable), to broker a single product for a national account, with the intent on nurturing and growing sales within that single account?
Second, I’m looking to chat with anyone knowledgeable on the availability and quality of bagel dogs on the market.
Bageldogs rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this thread when I did a google search having fond memories of a Dr. Steins Frankenbagel as they were called back in the day. They were the full sized version, and we carried them in a San Francisco Deli I worked in in the early 1980’s. This leads me to beleive Dr. Stein may in fact have invented the bagel dog. We split them open and stuffed them like a chicago dog, with pickles, tomatoes, onions, mustard, even slit them open and put cheese in the bagel before heating… they were fabulous. I will try to find them here in the Seattle area and report back if I have any success. Dr. Stein could make a mint if these were available in the Hot Pockets aisle of the store… a far superior product.
You can order the mini-dogs on line from this site:
https://www.viennabeefstore.com/
They are pricey.
You can order the mini-dogs on line from this site:
https://www.viennabeefstore.com/
They are pricey.
I TRIED A BAGEL DOG A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT MY DAUGHTER PERCHASED AT COSTCO. IN HILMAR CALIF. WHEN I WENT BACK TO BUY SOME ON 7/26/07 THEY NO LONGER HAD ANYMORE AND SAID THEY WERE NO LONGER CARRING THEM. DO’S ANY ONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THEM. NOT THE MIMI BAGEL DOGS, BUT THE FULL BAGEL DOG?….