# You're enjoying food wrong. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260 "2016-02-26T22:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/1 "2016-02-26T22:56:27Z")
What foods do you enjoy “wrong”? [(Inspiration for this thread here. Filet minion well done.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=784964) Me: I like my red wine chilled. Ketchup on my hashbrowns. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/2 "2016-02-26T23:03:33Z")
Latke mix (with egg) uncooked. Frozen peas still frozen. Also frozen raspberries (with sugar and balsamic vinegar). ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/3 "2016-02-26T23:18:03Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > What foods do you enjoy “wrong”? [(Inspiration for this thread here. Filet minion well done.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=784964) > > Me: > > I like my red wine chilled. > > Ketchup on my hashbrowns. If you’re drinking shitty red wine, chilled is fine. What’s wrong with ketchup on hashbrowns? Have I been hashbrowning wrong ignorantly all these years? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/4 "2016-02-26T23:28:33Z")
Ketchup on hot dogs. That’s the way I liked them as kid, and I still like them that way now. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/5 "2016-02-26T23:29:03Z")
Hashbrowns are flattened out Tater Tots. they NEED ketchup, all of them, to choke them down. … Ketchup on hot dogs: only something like Oscar Meyer Weiners, on hot dog rolls with 'Murican cheese. There is something so endearingly white-trash about this! … REAL hot dogs in casings, of course not! They are a whole separate animal. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/6 "2016-02-26T23:31:01Z")
Anyone else remember that long train wreck of a thread for the poor person who ordered milk with the meal in a steakhouse? ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/7 "2016-02-26T23:42:56Z")
I like to eat a bite size piece of extra sharp cheddar with a dollop of jelly - any jelly - pepper, raspberry, strawberry…it doesn’t matter. I like the taste of the sharp and sweet. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/8 "2016-02-26T23:47:39Z")
Ketchup with hash browns is a _requirement_, not an aberration. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/9 "2016-02-27T00:01:17Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > If you’re drinking shitty red wine, chilled is fine. > > What’s wrong with ketchup on hashbrowns? Have I been hashbrowning wrong ignorantly all these years? Both observations are correct and **wolfpup** -approved! 😉 I rarely eat hash browns but when I do it’s with scrambled eggs, and ketchup is almost a requirement for the latter. No shame there. Seriously, good red wine has such nuanced flavors that chilling it is the equivalent of getting a bad cold, stuffing a super-hot pepper into your mouth, injecting your tongue with novacaine, and then trying to enjoy the wine. The chill kills it. Even white wine, which does normally need to be chilled, can be killed by being too cold. If you find that chilling red wine improves it, you need to find a better wine! ---
**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:** [February 27, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/10 "2016-02-27T00:06:59Z")
Ketchup is fine on hash browns. Or runny egg too. Either work, but I’ve never heard anything against ketchup on hash browns. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/11 "2016-02-27T00:17:31Z")
Slightly-softened chocolate ice cream makes a fine potato chip dip Eggs and hashbrowns require salsa or salsa verde Hot dogs call out for barbecue sauce. So do French fries. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/12 "2016-02-27T00:27:39Z")
Another ketchup on hot dogs guy. Wine on the rocks. Lox and cream cheese pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/13 "2016-02-27T00:38:36Z")
Ketchup on hot dogs. Swiss on Philly cheese steaks. Pickled ginger on sushi. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/14 "2016-02-27T00:41:24Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Slightly-softened chocolate ice cream makes a fine potato chip dip. Maybe not as unusual but so does Italian dressing. Especially on corrugated chips like Ruffles. I recently found that I like pickles as a side dish. The sliced rounds that you put on sandwiches. A dozen or so will do it just fine, thank you. I have found yet another way to irritate my sister. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/15 "2016-02-27T00:46:06Z")
> [@scootergirl](#): > > I like to eat a bite size piece of extra sharp cheddar with a dollop of jelly - any jelly - pepper, raspberry, strawberry…it doesn’t matter. I like the taste of the sharp and sweet. Eh, dipping a hard sharp cheese in honey is quite a common way to serve it in some parts of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/16 "2016-02-27T00:54:33Z")
I eat knishes the way my Mom made them for me - with cream cheese and mustard. I once asked a NYC food cart guy if he had any cream cheese, and got a Look. > [@Kimstu](#): > > Latke mix (with egg) uncooked. So you just . . . eat it with a fork? Like coleslaw? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/17 "2016-02-27T00:56:43Z")
I drink red wine, even if I’m eating chicken or fish. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/18 "2016-02-27T01:13:52Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > I drink red wine, even if I’m eating chicken or fish. Yep. I echo the sage words of Baron Phillipe Rothschild: “I will drink white wine when the world runs out of red.” ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/19 "2016-02-27T01:16:15Z")
I agree that ketchup is natural on hash browns. I do enjoy it on hot dogs, but honestly I _also_ do it to spite Chicago/purists. It knows what else it did! The only way tomatoes belong on a hot dog is if they are pureed and mixed with tons of sugar and vinegar. When I eat cereal, it’s without milk or anything else 99% of the time. Dry. There are only a few types of cereal I will tolerate with milk. Even then it’s usually for bland cereal, while for many types I find milk actively disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/20 "2016-02-27T01:28:03Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Slightly-softened chocolate ice cream makes a fine potato chip dip. When she’s not in training and can eat junk food my kid dips her french fries in her chocolate milkshake. I was dubious, but am now a convert. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260.md?page=2)