Finger Food by caitlinsdad
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Rated PG, pretty gross, may cause you to toss your cookies...If eating a hot dog itself was not bad enough, this is worse.

For the ultimate gross out meal, nothing like finding body parts in your meal. Human or otherwise. Instead of serving chicken fingers, serve real finger food. The butcher was probably not paying attention and whacked his hand with a meat cleaver when I ordered this cold cut or the deli-man accidentally decapitated a few digits off in the meat slicer. You can expand on this and make Frank and Beans with Frank in the beans... Adults can make their version of beanie weenie with this.

This was concocted while raiding the fridge for a midnight snack. With a bit of easy preparation, you can create your own identifiable remains for your ghoulish feast. Just beware of the zombies that are looking for their missing digits.

Enjoy with a ghoulish Halloween Egg Cream

Step 1: What's in a meat pie?

For this you will need:

- some frozen french fries (aka Freedom Fries, you know, pommes frites)

- some hot dogs, preferably the ones with skins or casing, but any type frankfurter will do. A bit harder to find, but they do sell the monster size Polish-sausage type red-hots. I have not tried this with Italian sausage, kielbasa, chorizo, or bratwurst but it should also give the same effect.

- some frozen prepared buffalo-style chicken wings or fried chicken wings

- a bit of butcher's twine or cotton string or clean thread

- a bit of aluminum foil

- Optional: a can of vegetarian beans in tomato sauce or whatever variety/flavor if you want a full entree. A can of beans with that slab of pork fat works also.

- blood-like condiments, catsup, ketchup or tomatoe sauce

Step 2: Manicure and Pedicure

Take a part of a frozen french fry. You can shape it like a fingernail or just find a small piece that is pointy on one end and blunt at the other. Cut a slit or pocket into the end of the hot dog where a fingernail would be.

Take the point of the knife and create a pilot hole to insert or stuff the french fry into the hot dog. Be careful not to bulge the hot dog too much so that you end up ripping the skin. Dig out some more meat if you need room to fit the french fry.

Step 3: Diggity Dawg

Take a hot dog and break it in half. You want a ragged edge. You can also break it 1/3 of the way down. One part can be a toe and the other part can be a part of the finger.

To create a finger, wrap a small piece of aluminum foil around the hot dog. Tie a string around where the joints of the finger should be. The foil will ensure you do not cut into the hot dog and break the skin.

Compress the hot dog slightly as you tie the string. When it cooks, the hot dog will take a more natural shape and give you a ridge at the finger joint. We will cook the dog with the string on and cut them after they are cooked.

For hors' d'oeuvres, you can just bake them till heated through and browned in a toaster oven. You can also take a big pot and bring your batch of beans to a simmer. Gently place the "fingers and toes" into the pot and let them heat through with the beans. Baste with liquid and beans in the pot.



Step 4: Got a bone to pick?

Cut off the strings and remove foil before serving. You can mash the french fry down to form a better fingernail shape.

The chicken wings should be frozen prepared kind where they require short cooking or just reheating. Have the chicken wings defrosted so you can work with them easier. Don't do this with fresh chicken parts unless you intend to fully cook them on the side or with the beans later.

It probably is best to just use the drummette portion of the wing, the one with a single bone.

After cooking, peel or rip off most of the meat surrounding the bone, just be sure to remove any signs of chicken skin. This will allow you to skewer or insert the bone into the end of the hot dog.

For the fingers, jam in a chicken bone in the ragged end of the hot dog.
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susanchen2011 says: Jul 21, 2012. 1:50 AM
It looks very delicious.
tinker234 says: Mar 30, 2012. 7:36 PM
i am a vegetarian so i cant use meat could i use a vegetarian substitute like morning star farms sausage links thanks
caitlinsdad (author) says: Mar 30, 2012. 7:41 PM
You should try. I guess you might need to brown it more so it looks more burnt fleshlike, regular hot dogs have that red nitrate color thing going on.
tinker234 says: Mar 31, 2012. 6:21 PM
thanks
tfrench says: Aug 28, 2011. 7:29 AM
Halloween is so awesome and this would make a great addition to a creepily fabulous party- these rock!
CynicalStick says: Nov 13, 2008. 9:12 AM
I really don't think you need them to be finger-shaped. Hot dogs are nasty enough.
caitlinsdad (author) says: Nov 13, 2008. 9:54 AM
Was that being cynical or sarcastic? :)
bluelantern says: Oct 30, 2010. 10:07 PM
cyncastic?
click HERE for latest obsession says: Dec 21, 2010. 9:42 AM
Haha, I accidentally read that as "cyntastic".
bluelantern says: Dec 21, 2010. 3:28 PM
it would work too,haha.
click HERE for latest obsession says: Dec 21, 2010. 9:40 AM
I saw this and thought, "Wow, what an evil title." As it turns out, that was intentional. This scares me more than that sailor's eyebrows.
merseyless says: Oct 24, 2008. 10:42 PM
btw when they translated "finger licken good" into chinese they ended up with "eat your fingers off" lolz
freakyqwerty says: Nov 27, 2010. 10:30 AM
Yeah well when I put "finger licking good" in to this sort of trasnslator lots of times i got;
"With me Leccato of the finger gave his him of the luxury"
After that i put in the actual moto and i got "In the good finger they licken"
I prefer the first one though XD

freakyqwerty says: Nov 27, 2010. 10:38 AM
Oh by the way I put it through lost in translation
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 25, 2008. 11:23 AM
Nothing says yummy better than a thummy in your tummy...
SageMinto says: Oct 22, 2010. 9:03 PM
LOL.

Creative/weird. I like the concept a lot.

merseyless says: Oct 27, 2008. 12:55 AM
lolz
rumple_T says: Oct 31, 2010. 2:49 PM
I just made these for a Halloween party last night. They were an absolute hit! I cooked the hot dogs a bit too long and they came out wrinkly. It added to the authenticity. Thanks for the great instructable!
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 31, 2010. 2:54 PM
Pictures! We need ghastly pictures!
rumple_T says: Nov 1, 2010. 3:35 PM
So sorry! Was so busy didn't take any pictures. Next time!
hollenback.c says: Oct 8, 2009. 3:11 PM
 Wow, they look disgusting, and yet... delicious... ? Good Idea!
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 9, 2009. 3:22 PM
Now, how can you turn down something made with someone's loving hands?
bluelantern says: Oct 30, 2010. 10:06 PM
haha,good one.
hollenback.c says: Oct 20, 2009. 8:54 PM
 Hey, you did Captain Kirk's chair! nice one.
jwolski says: Oct 27, 2010. 11:55 AM
Awesomely grotesque! 5*s!
potatomansoup says: Sep 27, 2010. 3:08 AM
This might be the grossest instructable I have ever seen! I feel really bad right now! AWESOME JOB, my wife is going vomit when I make these for her!
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 3, 2010. 10:23 PM
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joe57005 says: Oct 23, 2008. 8:49 PM
Very cool. Mrs Lovett would be proud!
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 23, 2008. 9:05 PM
20 of Lizzie Borden's whacks with a hatchet...
joe57005 says: Oct 27, 2008. 4:37 PM
Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one! don't you just LOVE those morbid limericks the little kiddies sing as they play?
caitlinsdad (author) says: Oct 27, 2008. 5:12 PM
Ring around the rosies, pocketful of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down may have been written about getting the plague and its detriment. yeeesh.
joe57005 says: Oct 28, 2008. 5:00 PM
Actually, it was. "ring around the rosies, pocket full of posies" refers to the initial symptoms: ring shaped irritation around a bright red spot. "Ashes, ashes, we all fall down" refers to the advanced symptoms: previously irritated areas die, decay and turn black, leading to limbs falling off and eventually death.
Drakeler says: Oct 16, 2009. 8:04 AM
I thought ashes was the medievel sound effect for sneezing. At least, that's what my 8th grade geography teacher said.
bpfh says: Aug 22, 2010. 2:31 AM
The version I learnt was "atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down"... English (I don't know about American ;-) ) for a sneezing sound...
hydrnium.h2 says: Jan 19, 2009. 3:17 PM
Isn't History Great?
Farrelbark says: Aug 5, 2010. 3:30 PM
I don't know whether to throw up or have seconds...
firebreathers says: Dec 17, 2009. 11:51 AM
This looks like great fun. It will be another great food idea for our Halloween Party. I am going to try string cheese instead of french fries(will ooze much better), and potato chips (for the nails). thanks for a great idea!
RavingMadStudios says: Nov 10, 2009. 1:51 PM
Lovin' this a lot, although I think I might go with a potato chip for the nail instead of a Freedom Fry. Either way, this is deliciously nasty.
el.pinnacate says: Nov 1, 2009. 12:32 AM
they taste better in character
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caitlinsdad (author) says: Nov 1, 2009. 2:50 PM
 haha, you gotta be careful when you sleepwalk, don't know what you might make for a midnight snack...
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