Octopus Hot Dogs

For about a week my 6 year old has been bugging my wife and I to go to the store and buy hot dogs so that we can make octopus hot dogs for her.  She was on this big kick about octopus hot dogs.  We've never made octopus hot dogs before so she must have learned about them at school or pre-school last year.  So what's an octopus hot dog?  A hot dog that looks like an octopus!!!  I took two pictures of our first octopus hot dogs, shown below.

I have to admit that they do look like an octopus!  :-)  To make these, my wife sliced the bottom half of the hot dog into eight slices.  The hot dogs were cooked in hot water and as they cooked, the slices curled to give the impression of moving legs.  

Never underestimate the fun you can have with food!