Hot dogs, today's politicians will have you believe, are filled with awful animal bits: a donkey's knee, a sheep's face... you get the idea. If politicians had their way, hot dogs would be illegal - just like heroin, cocaine and that book Hitler wrote.
However, let's examine the facts: a sheep's face isn't even vaguely the same shape as a hot dog! Donkeys don't even have knees!

What exactly do politicians have against hot dogs? I'll tell you what they have against hot dogs - or more accurately, what they don't have against hot dogs. They don't have against hot dogs sausage tax money.

The sausage tax of 1983 currently stands at 2% in the UK. If my maths is correct, this means that, for every £1.00 spent on a six pack of sausages, £2.09 disappears straight into the Prime Minister's mind!
But amazingly, hot dogs are exempt from the sausage tax! This is due to a loophole in the law which states, and I quote: "Hot dogs are not the same as sausages".

This exemption is very good news for William Smits, who, at an auction in 2001, purchased what was the most expensive hot dog - a rare Faberge hot dog.
It sold for a mouth-watering £82.12: escaping a teeth-shattering sausage tax of £9.40!

WOW!