It was on the news again. “Do NOT put ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago!!!” Apparently, Heinz is putting out ketchup in a bottle labeled “Chicago Sauce” Har-dee-har-har.
My take on this is that it’s an 80’s joke that has long worn out its humor. Go ahead and put ketchup on your hot dog if you want to, dammit. Oh yeah, and celery salt sucks. And I say that as a lifelong Chicagoan.
Are there any other food feuds out there that you would like to discuss? Carolina vs Memphis BBQ? Manhattan vs. New England Clam Chowders?
I prefer Manhattan Clam Chowder, but New England is perfectly good. The best Manhattan is better than the best New England, but second-rate New England is better than second-rate Manhattan.
Recently someone mentioned here that Hydrox are better than Oreos. Ummmmno.
I have an ongoing feud with a coworker who thinks the polystyrene bits Burger King calls french fries are better than McDonald’s. That’s just crazy talk.
Chicago style pizza barely qualifies as pizza. More like casserole with pizza like ingredients.
Shut yo’ mouth! Celery salt is the coup-de-grace of a great Chicago dog! (Actually, I really don’t care. My “Chicago dog” is mustard, relish, onions, on an all-beef natural casing dog. Don’t give me this skinless shit most everyone has migrated to. But if you’re doing it up the full Vienna-Beef-approved “Chicago style” bullshit, yeah, celery salt.)
As for Manhattan vs New England, I’ll go Rhode Island. Then New England. Then Manhattan if there’s nothing else on the menu to eat.
We can always do chili: beans or no beans? (For me, depends on the style. My prefered is no beans Texas red, but I make all styles, and my generic “chili” for guests is a Midwestern style that include plenty of beans. But not kidney beans. Screw kidney beans.)
Wheat flour and any kind of sugar have no place in decent cornbread.
Many people advocate soaking the chicken in something before your fry it…buttermilk, lemon juice, Canadian Goose diarrhea…just don’t do it. Season it, dredge it in seasoned flour - twice - and then drop it in the pan.
Yeah, the “no ketchup on a hot dog” is played out. I live in Chicago too and I’ve been to more than one hot dog place in the city where the guy at the counter says that he doesn’t care what you put on it. A “Chicago dog” is a type of flavor combination like a “chili dog” or “sausage and mushroom pizza,” there’s an explanation for no ketchup on the Vienna Beef posters but that doesn’t mean you can’t add ketchup to a dog. If I eat a “Chicago dog” I’ll do without the ketchup but otherwise, I add ketchup.
AV Club posted an article against kids menus and I have to say I totally agree with this and I am totally guilty of letting my kids get chicken fingers just about anywhere we go.
Red barbecue sauce is foul. Mustard-based makes pork more fun!
But really I prefer my pork NAKED!!!
I don’t know if there’s any food feud around Cleveland’s Ballpark Mustard. Other than my friends getting mad at me when I take them to the ball park and they refuse to put mustard on their dog and I call them trash.
A thin crust Pizza Hut Pizza isn’t just better than any NY pizza… it’s WAY better than any NY pizza.
And if you live in the DFW area, Campisi’s is even better than PH.
Yep, I’m of the opinion that a Chicago Dog can’t have ketchup, but there’s no problem of putting ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago. (I do want one of the Chicago Sauce bottles).
Also, deep dish and thin crust pizza are two completely different things, but they are both good in their own way.
Oatmeal cookies, with raisins or without?The correct answer is with.
Apple pie, plain, a la mode, or with cheese?Plain. Ideally, it’s been out of the oven about an hour and still warm.
Carolina barbecue sauce, as I understand it, is quite vinegary. I like some foods spicy or tart, but not barbecue for some reason. I prefer sweet barbecue sauce; I think my preferred style is Kansas City but I haven’t made a sufficient study of the subject to be an expert.