Supposedly the umami in the ketchup overwhelms the flavor of the hot dog in a way other condiments don’t. I do know that, for me, mustard is strong enough to overwhelm anything, except for ketchup.
I almost always under salt or even cook completely without salt, it’s healthier to just salt the food before you eat it. I do make sure to warn people eating my food for the first time that they will need to salt it. My kids usually forget to add salt, so they end up getting a lot less sodium in their diet that way. I love sushi, make it all the time with crab meat or smoked salmon. As it’s not in a casserole, I don’t boil it. 
I’d never heard the idea that tomato sauce didn’t belong on hotdogs until I joined these boards. Every hotdog I’ve ever had has had either tomato sauce or barbeque sauce on it, and that’s how they’re eaten here. Trying to insist that putting tomato or barbeque sauce on a hotdog is “Wrong” will get people thinking you’ve spent too much time in the sun here…
I’m allergic to tomatoes. One of the best sandwiches in the world is a BLPB.
Pizza with anchovies. I had some once. The anchovies tasted like tuna to me. I didn’t care for it, but some obviously do.
I couldn’t really taste the anchovies, it just tasted like a really salty pizza. I’m not a big fan of salty things.
I’m not quite as tough as your wife, I love pot pie, but only with a lovely flaky top crust that’s only lightly moist on the inside.
But as a general rule, I am thoroughly revolted by wet bread. Even on a burger… you know how sometimes one side of the burger might get soaked with juice/sauce and be wet? I have to peel it away. Bread is dry, fillings are moist. (and I draw a distinction between fat and water… soaked in fat, I can stand. Soaked in water and water-based… no.)
Milk on cereal… I do eat it, but only two spoonfuls at a time. Smidge of cereal, splash of milk, eat. Smidge of cereal, splash of milk, eat. More than 30-60 seconds in the milk… no.
French dip? EW… EW!!!
You are not alone. How those people can run the risk that there won’t be adequate cheese left for the fourth cracker, I don’t know
Have you ever tried Dr Pepper or it’s millions of clones? I like it fresh from a room temperature can first thing in the morning.
If it’s got ice, it had better sit for an hour or so before I drink it. Mmmmmm, Dr Pepper water. Iced tea is the same way. Other’s glasses are the best place to find this particular beverage =)
I like my macaroni and cheese the way god intended it: from a box, with minimal milk. Just enough milk to make the cheese powder stop being crunchy.
Some foods simply don’t match; and while everyone’s palate is decidedly different, particularly here with the Dopers, many combinations seem patently “wrong”. For instance, one wouldn’t think of putting whipped cream on a hot dog, and ketchup falls into that category for me. To each their own, though, and I had never thunk to put a dash of celery salt on my dog until I lived in Chicago, now it is almost mandatory for me. Bon apetite!
How can you ever eat a hot dog without ketchup? 
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Anyway – Absolutely! One of my favorite sandwiches: two slices of toast, buttered, smeared with coarse grained German mustard, a slice of american cheese, then an egg that was scrambled up (so the end result doesn’t have nasty white streaks) and then fried solid.
Hmm. I wonder if I could get a mustard packet to go with an Egg McMuffin?
some of us intentionally under-cheese the first three crackers so the final cracker can get the mother lode.
sigh Another brainwashing victim of the ketchup industry.
This mentality is even starting to creep into Chicago. I’ve been to one hot dog stand a stone’s throw away from the literal Loop (business heart of Chicago) and I ordered a hot dog with “everything, hot peppers.” It came with the usual onions, relish, mustard, hot peppers, but also ketchup. This absolutely shocked me. And I mean that seriously, it stopped me dead in my tracks, as if somebody put toenail clippings in the hot dog.
Am I forced now to order a hot dog “everything, no ketchup” wherever I go? This sounds about as silly as ordering a hot dog “hold the chocolate syrup” in a typical city hot dog stand. I’ve seen ketchup as an “everything on it” default in one other place, a suburban Home Depot, so it doesn’t count on two levels. Luckily, I have not encountered this weirdness in any other city hot dog stand. I can only hope the disease is contained.
I don’t really care what everyone else puts on their hot dogs, but ketchup should not be a default topping within the city limits of Chicago.
You are really not alone. If Precision Food was an Olympic sport, I’d be gold.
My sister! I’ve never met anybody else who like mayo on hot dogs. I add dill pickle chips, too. So, bun, mayo, pickles, hot dog. Burn the hot dog a little, too – I like it kinda black.
I also chill my red wine, and I want my veggies, scrambled eggs and fish to be thoroughly cooked. In a restaurant, when I order fish I tell the waiter, “Cook it 'til the chef says he ruined it.”
Exactly! How are you supposed to get that last mouthful of cheezy goodness if you apply the exact same amount to all four crackers? Be judicious with the cheeze on the first three, and use AAAALLLLL the rest on the fourth!
With relish.
If you and the person who said 90% of all foods should have cheese, I’d like to subscribe to your newsletters.
Not ketchup on hotdogs and no tomato on ham sandwiches. It’s just morally wrong.
Cold eggs. Don’t have to be but I love when I get to eat them this way.
I’m a little intrigued by the concept of BBQ sauce on hotdogs, and it doesn’t sound bad! Bet my kids would love it, and I might try that…
But I’ve always eaten hot dogs with only ketchup, so I’m obviously a food heathen. My mom used to eat them with mayo, explaining that hot dogs are basically the same as bologna, and one would put mayo on a bologna sandwich (except for me, who used ketchup, back when I ate that sort of thing).
I also eat steak only as a delivery device for A-1, and I only recently agreed to eat steak medium-well instead of well done. I use Velveeta (plus some real cheese) in my homemade macaroni and cheese. I like instant mashed potatoes, sometimes. And I like canned spinach. There, I said it. You knew someone had to like it, or it wouldn’t be on the supermarket shelves.