25040 Southfield Road
NE Corner of
10 Mile and Southfield
Southfield, Michigan 48075
(810) 569-5000
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Kosher Bites
Reporter bites bagel dog, bagel dog bites back with
high sodium and fat levels.
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• LIEBERS REDUCED FAT .
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W
hen I was little, I at-
tended more than my
fair share of amuse-
ment parks and trav-
eling carnivals.
One of the best things about
those places — next to roller
coasters and spinning rides, of
course — was the food. Cotton
candy, elephant ears, salt water
taffy: they cost me more than a
few of my hard-earned dollars
saved from pedaling newspa-
pers.
The king of all the food was
the corn dog. Speared with a
wooden stick, a hot dog was then
dipped into a corn meal dough
and deep fried to a golden brown
hue. Done properly, the coating
would actually crunch ever so
slightly before melting on the
tongue.
But those were the days of not
caring if something carried 5,000
calories, most of which was sat-
urated fat. Those were the days
of eating whatever I wanted and
not gaining an ounce.
Those days were the days and
now they are over.
Now there are bagel dogs, a
hot dog wrapped ever so ten-
derly in bagel dough.
The offering is most likely
lower in fat and calories since
the outer wrapping is a fat-
free bagel, not a deep-fried
corn cake. However, this is im-
possible to ascertain as the corn
dogs did not have nutritional la-
bels.
For our test, we tried the only
two brands available in five area
supermarkets and specialty
stores: Best's Kosher Bagel Dog
and Wilton's Toasted Onion
Bagel Dog.
Best's variation had 320 calo-
ries per one dog serving, 40 mil-
ligrams of cholesterol, 750
milligrams of sodium, 30 grams
of carbohydrates and 11 grams
of protein. And at 17 grams of
fat for $1.29, it is a high-fat, low-
price entree. We bought our
samples at Farmer Jack on 10
Mile Road and Coolidge High-
way.
Wilton's was lower in fat
(14 grams) but higher in all oth-
er categories including choles-
terol (45 milligrams), sodium
(1,010 milligrams), carbohy-
drates (64 grams), protein (22
grams) and price ($1.59). We
found our samples at One Stop
Kosher.
Bagel dogs are not attractive.
They look like light brown elon-
gated lumps. Not even the toast-
ed onion flecks on the Wilton
dogs could make the lumps look
any better.
Even The Jewish News staff,
notorious for its ability to
consume mass quantities of
food, was a bit wary of the taste
test.
"What is that?" asked Brigette
Thompson. "A bagel what?"
None the less, the food was all
but gone within 45 minutes.
Two words to the wise: 1) If
you like spicy dogs, get the
Wilton brand 2) Use a conven-
tional oven; a microwave makes
the dough too chewy.
WILTON'S TOASTED BAGEL DOG
"The hot dog is a little strong
and the dough too doughy."
— Dharlene Norris
"The meat is delicious but the
dough is too chewy. Also, it is too
hard to add mustard, a hot dog
must-have."
— Julie Wiener
"Good dough but the meat
was a little fake tasting. Also,
they look like Snausages, those
dog treats."
— Nancy Cameron
"Good taste and the bagel is
fine. I wish they would make a
low-fat version."
— Carla Schwartz
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Kosher Bites is a nonscien-
tific, consumer oriented taste
test. Since consumers gener-
ally do not engage in market
research prior to picking
products to purchase, we
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