Extreme Makeover, Weiner Edition: RKS Redesigns the Deadly Hot Dog

Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics called
for the redesign of hot dogs. "If
you were to take the best engineers in the world and asked them to design a
perfect plug for a child's airway, you couldn't do better than a hot dog,"
said Dr.
Gary Smith, former chairman of the AAP's Committee on Injury, Violence, and
Poison Prevention. "When it's
wedged in tightly, that child is going to die." Never ones to resist a challenge, or the
chance to play with our food, we...