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The Christian Science Monitor reports
Nashville residents who dropped by their local Arby's beginning [the week of November 2] could try the restaurant's limited-time-only venison, or deer meat, sandwich, which the fast-food chain debuted in commemoration of the beginning of deer hunting season.
[...] Many of the Arby's locations that are selling the sandwich are located in more populous or urban areas rather than rural areas where one might expect people to hunt. But Evan Heusinkveld, the president and CEO of the Sportsmen's Alliance, tells The Christian Science Monitor that the urban population is exactly the group that should have the opportunity to try venison.
"Many people who live in the country either have their own freezer of venison or know somebody who hunts", he says, "Selling to city dwellers is exactly what the hunting community would love to see."
While Arby's venison is sourced from farm-raised deer in New Zealand due to USDA rules against serving wild-harvested meat, it will still give customers a taste of what they're missing. The sandwich features a juicy venison steak, crispy onions, and juniper berry sauce.
Arby's venison sandwiches will be offered in just 17 locations in six states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia) during deer season, with the promotion ending the Monday after Thanksgiving.
So far, the company says the sandwich has been a big hit.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 07 2016, @05:05PM
It's about bulk. Your hot dog example is flawed because you don't say how many miles or hot dogs are being shipped for those hundreds of gallons of fuel. Of course it would be immensly wasteful to only transport one hotdog at a time. But once you factor in the bulk factor, the efficiency goes up.
Assuming worst case scenario:
A box of hotdogs [foodservicedirect.com] weighs about 10.5 pounds and contains 80 wieners.
The wiener boxes appear to be 12x12x6 which should fit a gross (144) of cases on a standard 40x48 skid.
A 53 foot van trailer can hold 30 40x48 skids.
A semi truck has a guaranteed interstate gross weight of 80,000lbs, about half of which is consumed by the weight of the tractor and trailer (reefer trailer). So figure 40,000 lbs cargo capacity.
We cant legally max out the wiener count to cargo capacity otherwise the truck would be overweight. So lets shoot for a safe load of 3800 cases.
That's 304,000 weiners at approx 40,000lbs.
I want to transport those wieners from lets say San Francisco to new york city. That's about 3000 miles by road.
The average US MPG for a semi is 6.5 mpg, fully loaded.
A 3000 mile trip will consume 461 gallons of fuel.
That's 0.0015 gallons or 5.75 ml per wiener. Not too bad.