Hot dog water can help you "lose weight, increase brain function, look younger, [and] increase vitality," its discoverer says, all for just $37.99 a bottle, Fox News reported.
With claims like these it’s little wonder the meaty beverage, which comes in a glass bottle containing unfiltered water and a single weiner, drew attention at the Vancouver’s annual Car Free Day festival.
"We’ve created a recipe, having a lot of people put a lot of effort into research and a lot of people with backgrounds in science really creating the best version of Hot Dog Water that we could," said Hot Dog Water CEO Douglas Bevans, who set up a stall among other food vendors at the event.
A sign at the stall said the drink is also rich in sodium and triggers anti-inflammatory processes.
Bevan said the "the protein of the Hot Dog Water helps your body uptake the water content, and the sodium and all the things you’d need post-workout."
Bevans has even expanded his range to include Hot Dog Water lip balm, breath spray and body fragrance.
If New York City's hot dog street vendors only knew what they were pouring in the gutter at the end of the day!
Think all that sounds over the top? It is.
Bevans happens to be an artist and he said the whole hot dog water concept was meant to be a form of commentary on what he calls the "snake oil salesmen" of health marketing, Global News reported.
"It’s really sort of a commentary on product marketing, and especially sort of health-quackery product marketing," he said.
"From the responses, I think people will actually go away and reconsider some of these other $80 bottles of water that will come out that are ‘raw’ or ‘smart waters,’ or anything that doesn’t have any substantial scientific backing but just a lot of pretty impressive marketing."
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