This. The next person who posts one of these threads should be forced to work at the Heinz plant bottling ketchup.
Catsup on a hot dog? Not my favorite, but live and let live, I say.
One time when I was young, I ate a hot dog with Miracle Whip on it… and I liked it!!!
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Who the hell made you the Hot Dog maven?
The mere fact that you are equating a hot dog and sushi makes your opinion suspect.
No, it’s not necessary but it adds a little tang. I can take it or leave it.I do want cheese, however, and sometimes pickles.
You can sometimes find dill pickle relish, it’s great!
Ketchup is too damn sweet.
Drag it through the garden. If that happens to include some ketchup, no problem. It had better have a dill pickle, onions, tomatoes, sport peppers and spicy hot/sweet relish on it . Famous Dave’s spicy relish is great. Mustard is good as well.
Two please.
I like ketchup. I like mustard. I don’t like relish… at all.
I nominate myself First Heretic…
we have a place that opened in 1940 and they only sell hotdogs and they will never put ketchup on one . They also sell cokes only in glass bottles. I finally went there recently and the dogs were mediocre at best . They are only open 12-4 every day except Sunday when they are closed.
no you will eat as i tell you
That was supposed to be all caps.
Thanx, but not really…I visit Cleveland occasionally to see the one sister who still lives there, and I always pop up to the West Side Market for fresh vegetables, meat, cheese, bread, etc. it’s best to go early in the morning, and Johnny Hot Dog is right there, so why not?
You chase them down with a 20 cent cup of fresh buttermilk at one of the dairy stands. A little salt sprinkled on the surface, of course.
On the way out, pick up a couple of grilled bratwurst sandwiches on a hard roll with kraut and brown mustard. (As opposed to a brat in Sheboygan, which gets raw onion, pickle, and brown mustard.)
If your scheme had been followed this morning, I would not have had anything to bitch about. I would’ve had a happy lunch, not one spoiled by the devil’s condiment.
Wait… are you saying that there are restaurants that SERVE french fries already slathered in ketchup? Because that’s all kinds of wrong. Such a thing had literally never occurred to me.
I phrased both OP & poll question quite carefully. My complaint is to serving the dogs with ketchup already on them, something when would only expect to be done in a Turkish prison.
Well, then I would echo Chronos’s comment. Why would a hot dog server ever put anything on the hot dog, unless you were in Chicago and ordered a Chicago dog? Or at a NYC hot dog cart and said “Gimme kraut, mustard, and onions?”
Everyplace else, you take your damn dog over to the condiment area and fix it the way you like.
I agree. I totally do not understand that nuclear-colored relish. I was born and raised here, and my local hot dog stand just used normal non-neon relish.
I don’t care what anyone puts on their hot dogs. Just don’t ever put ketchup on my hot dog unless I specifically ask for it (and there are times I will do as the locals and put ketchup on a hot dog.)
The hot dog stands I’ve been to, even out of the Midwest, all seem to have some variant of “the works” or some standard way of serving them. I mean, condiment area? Sure, if I’m eating at a ballpark or gas station.
Only mustard. I will sometimes add onions, and dill relish.
Only if said ketchup isn’t Heinz. Anyone who eats any other brand of ketchup shall burn in hell for all eternity.
Two authorities, equally definitive:
National Hot Dog and Sausage Council
http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-etiquette
Harry Callahan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM
Case closed.