Look, I'm not Mr. Blame The OP, and yes, the packaging is much better looking than the product.

But store bought, frozen corn dogs? Seriously? Yuck!

I eat these. The ones with cheese in them are the best! You're right, though... most are perfectly round.

@wattznext: And just to balance out my first comment:

Let's hope nobody does it like SaraLee!

So tiny! Aww.
Better name might be Corn Dog Bites.

The grocery shrink ray strikes again!

@wattznext: Corndogs you get from a deli or restaurant or fair are also frozen. They just pop them in the deep fryer instead of the microwave or the oven.

Those make great catfish bait.

@wattznext: They aren't yuck at all.

Also, though, he should consider that while they don't look like the ones on the box, the taste doesn't change.

Also, he shouldn't claim to get half.. being that he got exactly what the box said they would weigh.

Schwan's has really good mini corn dogs - and they look better than the pic on the package featured above.

College food kicks ass! Miniature corndogs are awesome no matter what shape they come in.

@Canino: Truth, I used to catch mad catfish with hotdogs back in the day

@Jack Doyle: I don't think you're considering that consumerists like myself are well educated when it comes to food choices. We know that killing ourselves with terrible food, barely fit for human consumption, is probably a bad idea.

Wouldn't a reasonable person look at the package weight and divide it by 60 to get an idea what each one weighs? It would be pretty clear that you are not getting a full-size corn dog (bleech!) even though he seems to be trying to make this into a "grocery shrink ray" type of complaint. I doubt that the packaging says 'actual size' anywhere.

@wattznext: I've had these before. They usually look like the box! Shrink ray!!!

They sell the package by weight. Doesn't seem like there could be 60 of something that size in a box that contains less than 2 pounds of product.

There's also the disclaimer just under the photo which will tell you it's enlarged.

@tkozikow: Not full size, just mini. And mini corn dogs those are not.

Sara Lee will argue that this food is so ill fit for consumption, that by making them smaller, they are actually saving you from a terrible death caused by cancer.

A) thats nasty, even the pic on the box

B) the acutal product is nasty

C) Get some oranges and Apples, take a walk

Does the box say it's not the actual size? I thought they were required to do that.

I eat these occasionally in beef form. They taste good, so who cares what they look like. I actually prefer them in round bite-sized balls because they're easier to manage as a snack. At least until my damn cats start stealing them.

@emona: "Corn Pups"?

@formatc: I can has corndog?

Warning: Products pictured on the box are much cooler looking than products inside.

Not to be consumed.

It says right at the bottom of the box "Enlarged to show details".

@wattznext: versus what, gourmet corn dogs?

corndogs?

never eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food, man.

@SpdRacer: "Enlarged" not elongated.

@ryan89: it also says approximately 60. I count close to 28. anyone else?

Corn dogs have been around . All four of my great-grandmas were alive and at least occasionally attending county fairs and vacation tourist traps for 20 or so years after that. I'm in my 40s, so unless you are past the half-century mark (or not American or your parents were immigrants) at least one of your great grandmothers probably would not only recognize a corn dog, but actually tasted one herself.

@PeggyK: I meant "been around since at least the 1940s"

@Cat_In_A_Hat: The box likely contains 2 bags x 30.

@Cat_In_A_Hat: I didn't think to take a picture until after my wife and I had already had supper. There were originally about 60 corndogballs in that bag.

@Christopher Finke: Corn dog balls... now there's an image.

@floraposte: Corn dog holes!

@calquist: I agree--I've had these before and they usually look like they do on the box. When you bake them, the outside looks way better than it does frozen, but it's obviously not going to change shape from round to oval.

@start-as-you-mean-to-go-on: Are mad catfish similar to mad cows?

@PeggyK: It's much funnier imagining that those corn dogs have been around. *insert pun about corndogs getting around and making corndog balls*

they didn't short him on the weight printed on the box did they? that's really the only thing that matters.

As for what they look like- a product doesn't look exactly like the picture on the box? this is news?

Corn Dog Nuggets!

Now if they can only make miniature "Porkchop on a stick", "Funnel Cake" and "Whole Turkey Leg" I'll be in state fair heaven.

@samurailynn: Obviously you've never been to Hot Dog on a Stick, or the heavenly Corn Dog Cart at Disneyland in California.

Not saying this food is acceptable, but it'd be good to see what it looks cooked/heated before making judgement. Often times food changes shape when you cook/bake/heat it

For example: individual cookie dough. Looks nothing like the cookie you see on the box, but after you bake it for 20 mins, it comes out of the oven look awesome.

I'm not saying the mini corndog will stretch out correctly after you cook/heat it, but it would make sense to judge it after that.

I've never understood how freezer corn dogs can seem to GROW freezer burn. Think it's an intentional design flaw, so you are coerced into buying fresh ones when the old ones are still perfectly good, if not for the icicle that covers the stick?

@mikesfree: No kidding! From dietfacts.com

INGREDIENTS:
Frank: BEEF AND PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED TURKEY, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, POTASSIUM LACTATE, FLAVORINGS, HYDROLYZED BEEF STOCK, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM DIACETATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), SODIUM NITRITE, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA.

Batter: WATER, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CORN FLOUR, SUGAR, CORN MEAL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOY FLOUR, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), SOYBEAN OIL, BROWN SUGAR, DRIED HONEY, SALT, EGG YOLK, EGG WHITE, SODIUM CASEINATE, NONFAT MILK, NATURAL

Eew!

Hmm....is this a start to a "That's what she said joke". You get something and when you have it in your hand its smaller than you think and then your left disappointed

We bought these once, too, thinking that it was a better deal than 8 corn dogs for $8 (or something like that).

When I opened the box, I had the same reaction as Chris.

Oddly, my husband, the hot dog fanatic, didn't seem fazed.

I will have to see inside the frozen nugget thing. Those look like breaded mushrooms. Packaging error? The corn dog bites have... well, they have the smooth corn meal batter exterior that a corn dog has, not that semi rough exterior on the nugget this guy is showing us.

@failurate: If they are in fact breaded mushrooms... then score! Cause you will most likely soon have free mini-corn dogs to go with them.
If they are in fact the mini-corn dogs... well that just sucks.

@OfficeMaxie: Mmmm.. mechanically separated meat products.

@wattznext: they taste the same as anywhere else. mmmmm

also, it was sometime early last year that they started producing the round ones. this is truly a shrink way because rather than reduce the cost of the product, they literally shrunk the item. the minis hotdogs used to be at least 1 1/2 inches long, now you're lucky to get even an inch. but it's the same price and they make it seem like you're getting the same amount because you notice the number of minis rather than the weight. i shouldn't be eating them anyway, but i was disappointed by the change. and a little sad that i cared at all.

i like how the box says "approximately 60" when the bag looks more like approximately half that amount...I guess he must've eaten some of the corn dog droppings