25040 Southfield Road NE Corner of 10 Mile and Southfield Southfield, Michigan 48075 (810) 569-5000 Fax (810) 569-5801 Kosher Bites Reporter bites bagel dog, bagel dog bites back with high sodium and fat levels. Memorial Weekend Specials! • ALL DRAKE CAKES . . 0% OFF exp. 5/30/97 • ALL FRESH FROZEN MEATS JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER • LIEBERS SNACKERS, REDUCED FAT $1" exp. 5/30/97 10-20% OFF Sunday & Monday Only (5/25 & 5/26) • COKE, SPRITE, DIET COKE CHERRY COKE 99, plus deposit exp. 5/30/97 • LIEBERS GARLIC SNACKERS . 1 79 exp. 5/30/97 • LIEBERS UNSALTED SNACKERS $1" exp. 5/30/97 $ 1 " • LIEBERS SNACKERS • MANISCHEWITZ TAM TAMS all varieties exp. 5/30/97 $1" exp. 5/30/97 • TORINO CHOCOLATE BARS .. $ 1 " exp. 5/30/97 • LIEBERS REDUCED FAT . WHEAT THINS exp. 5/30/97 fig I -- • GEFEN TOMATO SAUCE. . . 8 oz. exp. 5/30/97 We reserve the right to limit all sale items while quantities last. We are not responsible for any typographical errors. Under supervision of Vaad Harabonim Orthodox Council of Greater Detroit DON'T LET YOUR ADS FALL FAR FROM The THE DETROIT J EWISH NE WS HELPING JEWISH FAMILIES GROW TM PUBLISHED BY THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Vaa your ACCOUNT Paone REPRESENTATIVE (810) 354-6060 or for subscription information Piaone (810) 354-6620 00 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 ❑ 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 tiorNeithpx. w at h