No joke I made kofta a few month ago and I will probably not make them again because I didn't realize what they resembled until I put them on my plate.
Edit: I found a photo of it. It's even worse than I remember.
Blatant rip-off of the Norwegian invention "roller burger", which was a turd shaped hamburger intended to be served at gas stations using their hot dog rollers and a hot dog bun.
Used to live across from a 711 that had hotdog shaped burger... Tubes or whatever you wanna call it. Basically this, except super uniform. Pretty sure it was extruded instead of formed or rolled or something.
I was on a cruise once. Upper deck mini-buffet had a plate of piped black bean croquettes.
They were lumpy like the beef here, and because they were piped, one side of the ends was pinched off.
The head chef for the boat was making his rounds. We were laughing at the presentation. He smiled at us probably thinking what are these assholes laughing at, he looked down, frowed, what za fuk were zey thinking putting shit out like this. Within a few minutes the pan disappeared and the next day that buffet was quite pretty.
They evolved. Just like they would inside your body.
...in Brazil those are sold in skewers, people call them kafta. And yes, if you don't take care while shaping them, they'll look, well... not really appetising.
7-11 Cheeseburger Bite. Hamburger in the shape of a hot dog, with nacho cheese injected into the middle. Put it on a hot dog bun, and top it with their free chili and nacho cheese. Most 7-11s don't carry them any more, so when I find one that does, I immediately buy two and them shotgun them in my car in the parking lot.
Also, some dude said that in the northeast US they call them "hamdogs".