Am I really the first to mention that there was a Straight Dope column that addressed this topic?
Why There is no Ketchup on a Properly Made Hot Dog
I like 'em plain.
Because of another thread that brought this issue up recently, for the first time last weekend I tried a sausage on a bun without ketchup. Just mustard!! It was pretty good and I’ll try it again, but I will still use ketchup most of the time.
Sometimes hotdogs just need KETCHUP!!! That’s right I said it!!
But ketchup goes great with grilled cheese sandwiches all the time.
don’t worry Phelan, these heathens just don’t appreciate the sublime wonder that is ketchup.
Slight hijack
Why can you buy industerial sized bottles of that red stuff, but only small 12oz or less, of good mustard?
There is no ketchup in my house. And I like it that way.
When will they learn 5-HT? When?
Hey! I did and I laughed! And I wondered why the copycats weren’t giving credit…
-Tcat
Ketchup, Miracle Whip.
Nothing more, nothing less.
From lost4life
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Howzzatt?
Hot Dogs - Mustard and Onion.
Brats - Mustard and Onion
Kielbasa - Mustard. And Onion.
Plain old sausage kind of breakfast sausage - two fried eggs, sunny side up, with a side of hasbrowns.
Beef sausage - just like the kind ya get at the grocery store that says “beef sausage” - chili sauce and grape jelly melted together.
Oh quit looking at me like that!
Soggy mystery dog at a high school football game (served of course, on a stale bun) - Both, along with anything else I can slop on there.
Good quality beef hotdog in natural casing, white hots, or sausages (except Italian)get mustard. I prefer Spicy brown.
I did not develop a taste for mustard until close to adulthood, however.
Too lazy to scroll back through and see with whome I am agreeing but ketchup is useful in some sauce recipes (mixed with cranberry jelly over meatballs, for example. Sounds gross but there are never leftovers)
A place I used to work would order deli platters from Costco for luncheons. The mustard that came with them was excellent, coarse and spicy. I have not yet ponied up the dough for membership just so I could get some but if you are a Costco member and enjoy mustard it’s worth trying.
Credit given where credit is due. You even posted more of the dialogue.
Mustard has historically been more expensive to manufacture and is used in much smaller quantities.
It’s folks like you what give ketchup a bad name!
Yeah, I’ve destroyed the good reputations of many condiments over the years but I feel no remorse. I’d do it again…
Miracle Whip has no “good reputation” to destroy in the first place.
Cite?
I happen to like ketchup on more things, so I’ll lean towards that, however I will not eat a sandwich without mustard & miracle whip.
Huh. My father’s grandparents were both Swedish (migrated to Minnesota) and they put sugar on their tomatoes. Dad was about thirty before he discovered he liked tomatoes after all.
Now that I can agree with. If it’s schoolbus yellow, I don’t want it. I was at a reception a couple weeks ago and they had as a condiment, whole mustard seed soaked in wine and vinegar. The seeds were still round but soft enough you could squish them onto the cheese and coldcuts they had. Ambrosia. I wound up eating several crackers with just the mistard on them.
DD
We prolly deported them for trying to impersonate Germans.
I always liked the stoneground mustard in the little round jars. It’s great to take on camping trips, too.
Now I live in a country where the ketchup is even sweeter than in the US and people put ketchup on their pizza.
Well, maybe Chicago itself does not suck, but as a fan of the Greatest Team in NFL History (that would be the Green Bay Packers) I am obliged to say that:
“The Bears Still Suck! The Bears Still Suck! The Bears Still Suck!!!”