Hey, don’t judge. For some people, hot dogs are haute cuisine.
I love some good home made corn beef hash (don’t lie to me dammit, opening a can and heating it does not make it homemade).
Thing is, it usually comes with hash browns. It ends up being a double serving of potatoes. So, I tried grits. Much better as a side for corn beef hash.
This thread is weird.
“I went to IMHO and a Cafe Society discussion broke out.”
No, no, no, NOOO! This is not pizza!
It’s pieces of baked eggplant , which happen to be covered with a pizza-style sauce.
Also, it ain’t pizza because it totally fails to meet a crucial characteristic of all pizzas: you have to slice it before you can share it with friends.
The slices are required by law* to be triangular, though if you break this law many courts will reduce your sentence to time served (in the kitchen).
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*this law is from the Supreme Court ruling --on the legal definition of the famous clause in the first ammendment: the right to assemble pizzably. 
I take pride in hand-washing dishes—I’ve got it down to a science! No matter what recipe I whip up, I factor hand-washing into the equation like a mad scientist in a spotless lab. I clean as I cook, and by the time I plate my meal, it’s like the dirty dishes have vanished into thin air. Then my five cats and I can kick back, relax, and watch bird and mice videos together as we chow down. It’s the purr-fect way to enjoy a meal!
Me too! And I do them often. My gf’s POV is, if she cooked the meal, the least I can do is clean up the godawful mess she made (tomato sauce on the ceiling??) and do the dishes. If I prepared the meal, well, then, I should do the dishes as well.
Sounds like my youngest daughter, Miss Messy. Whenever there are missing plates, pots, pans, utensils, bodies, I know just where to find them—under her bed. 
Altho mustard is my fave condiment on hot dogs, chili and cheese is pretty damn good also.
Does it play Art Pepper when the dishes are done? John Coltrane?
(Just using this as the recentest example)
That’s the difference in the two sides. The anti-ketchup people want everyone to be like them. No dissent allowed! All will be ketchup-free, thus it is decreed, under penalty of death, or of al least, losing your hotdog. No matter what you want.
Whereas the ketchup people are, why the fuck do you care so much? I don’t care if people put ketchup, pimentos, chocolate, butter, on their dogs, who cares? Do they like it? Then shut up already.
Nope. Look, ketchup is fine if you are a kid. On french fries also- if they are not really good fries (I dip in 1000 island, but ketchup is okay). On a burger with mustard- fine.
But not on a steak.
Not on a hot dog unless you are under age.
Thank you for proving my point.
Who would imagine strong feelings in a thread about the world’s most divisive things?
But, by all means, if you want ketchup on your hot dog, or sushi, or candy bar, I’m not going to stop you. I’ll judge you, instead.
Like this. Eat what you want. But remember, you are what you eat. Of course that makes no sense, but neither does putting ketchup on hot dogs, sushi, candy bars, or quality steak.
And I don’t give your judgement a second thought.
Ketchup is just tomatoes, sugar, vinegar and spices. It really doesnt deserve the disdain it receives.
I agree in part with this specific variation on ketchup, and follow up with my response from a prior thread on the subject:
After which I go on to state my unspeaking horror at many commercial ketchups made from HFCS as well as other tasty options.
Wisconsin: brown/grill, then beer simmer?
Or simmer in beer, then grill?
and then spend a few hours decontaminating the rest of the kitchen and adjacent breakfast nook before showering and starting a load of laundry…
I’m from Texas, so I know my vote doesn’t really count, but I’d pick simmer in beer, then grill. The other way around seems weird and scary to me.
It is the sugar. Catsup is just too damn sweet.