# Let's say I offered you five dollars to eat a Chicago-style hot dog... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256 "2014-10-03T06:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/61 "2014-10-03T14:40:05Z")
If I eat 5 of them, will you give me $25? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/62 "2014-10-03T14:47:18Z")
It looks okay. Not quite to my taste (the tomatoes don’t really appeal to me, nor does the pickle), but it looks quite edible. If I were hungry and you offered me one for FREE, I’d eat it. So, why wouldn’t I eat it for five bucks? It would need a lot of mustard, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/63 "2014-10-03T14:57:37Z")
It’s not going to do my high blood pressure any favors, but I’d happily eat one for $5. I wouldn’t choose it as my typical hot dog, but if I was at a party and they were serving dogs with all the chicago fixin’s I might put one together as a novelty. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/64 "2014-10-03T14:58:08Z")
It’s what I always get when I go to Shake Shack, and there it costs close to $5, so, yeah of course I would have one. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/65 "2014-10-03T14:59:12Z")
I was trying to figure out what the taupey-green toothpastey splorch of condiment was, when I realized THAT was the sport pepper. :eek: Also, pickle relish is NOT supposed to be that color. I wouldn’t do it, just because the pill I have to take if I eat pepper and onion costs more than $5. If I HAD to eat it or die, sure, whatever. I like almost everything on there. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/66 "2014-10-03T15:01:44Z")
Yum! If I eat two of them will you give me $10? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/67 "2014-10-03T15:02:46Z")
As a general rule, when someone gives me food, I eat it. Why wouldn’t I do so when I’m getting paid? Given my druthers, though, that’s not the way I’d eat it. If nothing else, I’d much prefer to replace the yellow with a real mustard. And I’ve nothing against pickles or tomatoes (assuming that those are actually tomatoes, and not just tomato-shaped-objects like you get at the grocery store), but neither the dog nor the toppings benefit by the combination. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/68 "2014-10-03T15:03:13Z")
If you put too much stuff on a hotdog, all the hot dog can offer is texture, not flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Uther\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Uther\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uther_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/69 "2014-10-03T15:06:00Z")
Bah! The only thing that goes on a hot dog is clam chowder! Of the right kind, of course !!! … I am doing this wrong, or? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/70 "2014-10-03T15:08:29Z")
There’s way too much stuff on that hot dog. I don’t care for pickles, and really don’t like jalapenos. I’m not sure what that green stuff is supposed to be (relish should not be that particular shade of green), and as for tomatoes on my hot dogs, I only like them in ketchup form. That said, I’ll take the $5, and suffer eating something that’s not quite as pleasant as what I would eat if I was paying for it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/71 "2014-10-03T15:10:26Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I don’t care for mustard, so no thanks. > > Maybe for $500.00. Not me. $500 wouldn’t do it. Maybe $1000. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/72 "2014-10-03T15:18:37Z")
I must have had several dozen of that exact configuration in the last year. You wanna send me my cash? By the way, according to Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Superficially resembling both Tabasco and serrano peppers, the sport pepper is its own distinct cultivar that is much milder than either of those. It is commonly pickled and used in Southern cooking and on Chicago-style hot dogs. > **[List of Capsicum cultivars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Capsicum_cultivars)** > > This is a list of Capsicum cultivars belonging to the five major species of cultivated peppers (genus Capsicum): C. annuum, C. chinense, C. baccatum, C. frutescens, and C. pubescens. Due to the large and changing number of cultivars, and the variation of cultivar namings in different regions, this list only gives a few examples of the estimated 5000 pepper varieties that exist. > There are perhaps fifty thousand Capsicum cultivars grown worldwide. The USDA-ARS GRIN seed collection contains 6,200... ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/73 "2014-10-03T15:33:43Z")
Yes, definitely. I realize I’m a youngish guy, but people would really turn down not only food, but getting paid to eat? That’s basically heaven. I generally eat the pickle on the side, and I could take or leave the tomato. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/74 "2014-10-03T15:37:51Z")
I like the idea of being paid to eat. So even though hot dogs aren’t really my thing (and tomatoes just seem wrong with the dog) I picked the second option. I wouldn’t pay a penny to eat that though. Unless I was really hungry and didn’t have any other options. On the plus side, after reading this thread, I now know what sport peppers are. I had no idea. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/75 "2014-10-03T15:43:56Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Dude, it’s a _hot dog_. It’s not filet mignon. There is no way to eat a cylinder of meat made from all the parts of the animal you would otherwise abstain from eating, that would qualify as an abomination. While I have no issue with “lips and assholes” hot dogs, a good quality wiener is made from whole muscle meat. Vienna beef dogs, for example, are made from whole brisket cuts. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/76 "2014-10-03T15:44:22Z")
Steamed poppyseed bun - check Vienna Beef hot dog - check Sunny yellow mustard - check Tomato slices - check Wedge of dill pickle - check Chopped white onion - check Unnaturally green, sweet pickle relish - check Sport pepper - check Celery salt - check I’ll take two, please. [http://www.viennabeef.com/building-a-chicago-style-hot-dog](http://www.viennabeef.com/building-a-chicago-style-hot-dog) ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/77 "2014-10-03T15:52:09Z")
As long as i can substitue a veggie dog, yes, i’ll happily take your $5 (though i voted that i’d pay you). In restaurants with a veggie dog option i always order Chicago Style. Is there any other delicious food you’d like to pay me to eat? Perhaps cookies, or pies, or pasta, or burritos? Edited to say: i didn’t look at the photo until after posting. The toppings are little light… can i order more onioins, relish, & peppers please? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/78 "2014-10-03T16:00:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, the dog itself looks terrible, don’t it? Like an Oscar Mayer frank or something. [Here’s a real Chicago dog](http://www.gwiv.com/JimmysRedHot3.jpg) (more bare-bones style) from Jimmy’s. And [here’s](http://www.thedeliciouslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/portillos-chicago-hotdog.jpg) a full Chicago style dog from Portillo’s (well, minus the neon relish.) Yeah, that looks like a distinct improvement. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/79 "2014-10-03T16:05:47Z")
Looks good to me. Where’s my $5? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256/80 "2014-10-03T16:11:19Z")
I eat Chicago style dogs a few times a year, love 'em. But I don’t understand the people that voted to pay _you_ $5. Here you get something you enjoy and $5, why would you not take the $5? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-say-i-offered-you-five-dollars-to-eat-a-chicago-style-hot-dog/700256.md?page=5)