Bolthouse Farms Carrot Dog: a product review

Most of the time you don’t want to know what’s in a hot dog. Just think of the classic movie The Great Outdoors for the answer. This time,...

By Pamela Riemenschneider

October 22, 2020

1 minute read

Bolthouse Farms Carrot Dog: a product review

Most of the time you don’t want to know what’s in a hot dog. Just think of the classic movie The Great Outdoors for the answer.

This time, the Bolthouse Farms Carrot Dog is just that. A carrot.

I don’t know why I was so surprised to find that a carrot can actually make a reasonable swap for what is arguably one of the worst things people can eat, but I was.

It really is just a carrot, or as my 6-year-old says “it tastes like a carrot with ketchup and mustard.”

The kids weren’t as easily convinced as I was.

See what we think:

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Pamela Riemenschneider is the Retail Editor for Blue Book Services.

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