the simpsons were singing the jingle for “armour hotdogs”

so i read the wikipedia entry for armour hotdogs

apparently the armour meatpacking company was one of those truly evil companies that you just can’t get today what with labor laws and such

they even sold 500K pounds of tainted meat to the army and gave food poisoning to soldiers during the spanish american war

that is some pre-halliburton war contract profiteering!

it was a family business of the armour brothers from chicago

they were the real hot dog kings of chicago!

it gets weirder

they made lots of stuff as meat and animal byproducts

like dial soap!

then their profits went down

and the company was bought by greyhound bus co.

which is actually a canadian company

the name was changed to the dial corporation

then it was sold to some german food conglomerate

the song the simpsons were singing is the actual jingle that was apparently very popular

Hotdogs, Armour hotdogs.
What kinds of kids eat Armour hot dogs?
Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks.
Tough kids, sissy kids
Even kids with chicken pox
Love hotdogs, Armour hot dogs
The dogs kids love to bite!

there is another armour reference in the simpsons where principal skinner is wearing a bunch of hotdogs to look like a guy with bombs strapped to him

and chief wiggum says “what kind of man wears armour hot dogs?”

and that is all i know about armour hot dogs.

what is up with u?

oh wait, one last thing about armour hot dogs!

some really old patients i saw in KC took a thyroid replacement called “armour thyroid”

its not used anymore because the dosing is unreliable

it comes from pig thryoids

i never made a connection between it and the hot dogs, but there you go! one more weird thing about hot dogs.