Funny story, a little off topic. I too, have often wondered about the terrible hot dogs here.
Yesterday, the ball and chain took me to Lengkee restaurant in Klang, Pattaya because of the vegetarian festival, and outside, they have this vast variety of "pure veg" food.
She bought one that had small sausages in it, and she insisted that it was pure veg!
I tasted it, and it was better than 99% of all meat sausages I have had in LOS!!!
I'm sure there is some sort of scam going on, coz if those are really veg sausages, meat sausage companies would surely be going out of business!!!