The REALLY big breakfast: 6,000 calorie fry-up is slammed by health campaigners...

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[Graybeard58]

I’m expecting to die someday.

Not me, I'm gonna live forever.

So far, so good.

[Graybeard58]

The Kidz Breakfast at Jesters Diner in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, includes 12 rashers of bacon, 12 sausages and six eggs and weighs on average 9lb....

Throw in a loaf of toast and I'm there.

I likes me some bread with my food!

Seiesly though, that doesn't sound as if it would weigh 9 lbs.

[Graybeard58]

I have the utmost respect for any man - or woman - who can appreciate and revel in the full delights of what a Nathan's dog on a steamed bun offers to humankind

Nathan's is the only brand of hot dog I've eaten in probably the last 40 years. More expensive than others and worth every penny.

[aruanan]

Health experts are demanding its removal from the menu and are warning someone with a heart condition could die if they eat it, with each helping amounting to at least 6,000 calories, up to three days' food intake for an average person.

F.U., health experts. Were they not on the public dime, or whatever they use over there, and had to pay their own salaries, they wouldn't be making such demands.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I grew up in Coney Island.

As much as I loved their hot dogs, the fries and corn on the cob were the real treat.

[Liz]

The Nathan legend ——when it first opened, people were afraid to eat the hot dogs having heard stories WRT the mfg of hot dogs.

Nathan hired actors to wear doctor’s coats and stethescoopes to stand outside and eat the dogs-—figuring that would allay any fears.

He was right.

[philman_36]

I used to watch America's Funniest Videos with my kids when they were young. One video was of two young boys singing "where does the meat from a hot dog come from".
SO funny!
People used to be afraid of tomatoes too.

[EQAndyBuzz]

In the 50’s if you wanted mustard on your hot dog, there was a bowl of mustard with a tongue depressor in it.

Rumor had it that someone laced the mustard with LSD.

Wives tales.

[Liz]

The old joke was-—you never want to see hot dogs-—or our laws-—being made——too disgusting.

[Liz]

In 1915 Coney Island, Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker worked as a hotdog bun slicer at Feltman’s Beer Garden. Dismayedthat he and his fellow immigrant workers couldn’t afford to buy a Feltman’s hot dog, he decided to make his own reasonably priced dogs, and in 1916 he opened “Nathan’s Famous Frankfurter & Soft Drink Stand.”

Things didn’t start out so good for Nathan. The public was already growing weary of they spicy mystery meat tubes and Nathan’s low 5 cent price fueled rumors that his dogs were made from inferior dog and horse meat. In a move to win the publics trust, Nathan hired people wearing lab coats and stethoscopes to stand in front of his restaurant eating hotdogs.

The public bought it and he capitalized on it with signs that boasted “If doctors eat our hot dogs, you know they’re good!” So instead of fading from the streets of Coney Island, he was able to generate the momentum that lead to a Hot Dog empire and household name.

[N. Theknow]

In a move to win the publics trust, Nathan hired people wearing lab coats and stethoscopes to stand in front of his restaurant eating hotdogs.

The public bought it and he capitalized on it with signs that boasted “If doctors eat our hot dogs, you know they’re good!”

Sounds like the guy with the white salmon that nobody would buy until he put up a sign:

WHITE SALMON!

GUARANTEED NOT TO TURN PINK IN THE CAN!

[EQAndyBuzz]

His great grandson, Michael lived across the street from me. Good ballplayer. The family had another venture called Big Daddy’s which was on Coney Island avenue off of Avenue Y.

Same great food.