Leave it to colleague Erin Zimmer over at Serious Eats to find this gem of a video. The dude in this vid can help you make your very own hot dog skin flute or, as it’s known in some circles, the “gristle whistle.” My favorite line: The leftover drill meat, the instrument man claims, can “be saved for other uses.” Yeah, for like filling the rusty holes in your car.

Endless Simmer isn’t waiting for the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers to settle the score on the field this Sunday. The blog has decided to pick a winner based on which locale has better food.

It’s a tough contest, mostly because both regions appear to have a huge weakness for excess. Pittsburgh, for example, has a bacon-and-cheddar-cheese-covered hot dog (its motto: “Why Clog Just One Artery?”), while Arizona has a Mexican-style wiener known as the Sonoran hot dog, which is wrapped in bacon and smothered in a small avalanche of ingredients, including pinto beans, mustard, jalapenos, mayo, and crema. Let me repeat those last two: mayo and crema.

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This video on how hot dogs are made doesn’t specifically ID what kinds of meat are used, aside from the generic “trimmings,” but you have to admit: That brownish goop doesn’t exactly make you want to rush to the supermarket.