# Coleslaw on hot dogs: a purely Quebécois phenomenon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138 "2002-08-16T02:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138/41 "2002-08-20T20:14:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > \*\*But what would you expect from an area where the only way to get a reuben sandwich is to make one yourself. \*\* You are so right. I’ve had many terrible sandwiches that were sold as reubens. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138/42 "2002-08-20T20:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\*My Swedish hot dog experience isn’t extensive enough to tell if this is 1. a local or regional phenomenon, 2. standard practice in Sweden, or 3. a subtle prank played on the legions of Norwegian tourists that flock to the town :eek: \*\* Well, my Swedish Hot Dog experience is limited to one week in Stockholm in 1996, and I remember hot dog stands EVERYWHERE around Gamla Stan and Kungstragarden (or however you spell it). The hot dogs were about 18 inches long (in 12 inch buns, sticking out obscenely in both directions) and they had these huge, well, udders is about the only word that fits, big bulging bags of ketchup and mustard hanging from racks like IV bags to condimentize with. But the dogs were pretty good…Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138/43 "2002-08-20T21:00:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pulykamell \* > …However, about ketchup, it is absolutely forbidden on hot dogs in Chicago. Although the ketchup industry seems to have gotten to the new generation, and many hot dog stands will begrudgingly supply you with ketchup. The _one_ time I ordered a hot dog in Chicago I had to stop the guy from putting it on. Maybe he had my accent pegged but I like to think I have at least a bit of refinement. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138/44 "2002-08-21T10:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Threadkiller \* > \*\*The _one_ time I ordered a hot dog in Chicago I had to stop the guy from putting it on. Maybe he had my accent pegged but I like to think I have at least a bit of refinement. \*\* This is very, very sad, indeed. Yet another in a long series of signs portenting society’s dismal decline. And, I must say, I have been to hot dog stands in Chicago too (all invariably named “Nicky’s” or “Nic Boys” or “Little Nick’s”), me, a true-blue Southsider, and almost had to physically restrain the fast-food heathen from descecrating a “hot dog everything” by dressing it with ketchup. Have societal standards really fallen this far? See, that’s the problem with rampant liberalism! Free love, rampant drug use, the Greatful Dead and ketchup on Chicago-style hot dogs. What next? Ketchup on Italian beefs? Ketchup on T-bones? Ketchup on Frosted Flakes? Where will it all end? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coleslaw-on-hot-dogs-a-purely-quebecois-phenomenon/124138.md?page=2)