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Don't put ketchup on hot dogs!

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Grilled dog with mustard [either dijon, brown, or sissy yellow], dill relish, chopped fresh onion, and drained Batampte New Kraut, all on a properly grilled New England hot dog roll.



Pictured without the sauerkraut:
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Mustard, onion, peppers and pickle slices have too intense flavours... overpowers the taste buds and it's all I can taste.

Ketchup, mayo, a dash of relish... maybe a mild chili and/or cheese are "background" flavours and complimentary to the meat instead of overpowering it. 😉

And this video is totally relevant and fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2V5W7_MQXU Mayo vs. mustard!
 
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Blue_Max said:
Mustard, onion, peppers and pickle slices have too intense flavours... overpowers the taste buds and it's all I can taste.

Ketchup, mayo, a dash of relish... maybe a mild chili and/or cheese are "background" flavours and complimentary to the meat instead of overpowering it. 😉

And this video is totally relevant and fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2V5W7_MQXU Mayo vs. mustard!
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False

Bad horrible NOOOOOOO!!!

Mustard, Onion, and sport peppers are necessary ingredients for a proper hot dog.

Chili and Cheese make a great Chili Cheese dog, but that is ai different thing from a hot dog.
Ketchup does not belong. You would be violently assaulted if you tried to deface the hot dogs around here with ketchup. Maybe small children under 3 years of age who suffer from delusions that require all their food to be "red" would get a free pass, but all else risk suffering and pain for Ketchup related offenses.

Mayo on a hot dog likely would get you killed.

Note: I attribute 100% of all violent crime in the Chicago area as being related to incorrectly prepared hot dogs.
 
Ketchup (Heinz, of course!):

NEVER on hot dogs!

Yes, on:

Hamburgers (or barbeque sauce!)
Fries
Chicken
Liver & onions
In 1000 Island Dressing
 
zinfamous said:
because that's a hotdog! not some bullshit fancy crap! Fusion or whathave you has its place, but this push to try and fancify simple, blue color foods that are outright perfect because of what they are is obnoxious.

It started with that Wolfgang Puck asshole, that started trying to make pizza into something fancy. Every where I go down here, it's potatos and avocado on my pizza. what is that noise?

Don't get me wrong, I like fine foods, but I feel that the push to "improve" something that is already perfect in its simplicity, by making it fancy (wagyu beef hotdog?) is anathema to that dish. It is pointless. Just call it something else. Maybe the hipsters won't like it as much, but wgaf?
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There are so many sausages around, seems triple figures. Hot dogs of all stripes, German wursts. I'll take a good wurst over most crappy American hot dogs any day. Saags is god-like, period.

I really like some hot dogs, but TBH I haven't bought a hot dog in years, certainly not a package of hotdogs to bring home in over 15 years. I can't justify the well-over-50% fat content, usually over 70%, IIRC.

Now PIZZA! My GF used to drag me to a little restaurant that made unusual pizzas, and I must say, they were generally great. They had a new one each day. Of course, the lesson is that a pizza can be damn near anything you can dream up put on a leavened wheat crust of some kind and fired in a super hot oven. Italian sauce is optional, but when I make a pizza I almost always use my DIY Italian sauce from my home grown tomatoes.

You don't have to load a DIY pizza with a ton of stuff. Too many things can obscure the wonder of the toppings. Sometimes less is more.
 
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Blue_Max said:
Mustard, onion, peppers and pickle slices have too intense flavours... overpowers the taste buds and it's all I can taste.

Ketchup, mayo, a dash of relish... maybe a mild chili and/or cheese are "background" flavours and complimentary to the meat instead of overpowering it. 😉

And this video is totally relevant and fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2V5W7_MQXU Mayo vs. mustard!
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Ketchup is used only because it overpowers the tastebuds. That is why anyone puts it on anything, because they are soulless and dead in the mouth, and can only tolerate the excessive sweetness of ketchup.

The primary component of ketchup is sugar, and it is simple science that sweet is preferentially treated by the tongue and overwhelms everything else.

Depending on their actual heat, some hot peppers can do this as well, obviously. Sometimes it's more of a numbing effect than anything. Based on titration, vinegar can also do this. However, vinegar can either enhance flavor if used appropriately or overwhelm if you are essentially using it as a mouthwash in your food. Ketchup only has one effect on food at any amount, though, and that is to mask the truth that the person using it doesn't actually like this food they are putting in their mouth.
 
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The perfect hot dog should need nothing on it to taste terrific. Give me a Saag's Louisiana sausage... it needs nothing.
 
I was lazy this 4th, so I had Hebrew Nationals, microwaved, on un-toasted white bread buns, with French's yellow mustard, sweet relish and yes -- Heinz ketchup.

They were yummy.

I loved them as a kid, and they still taste good now. Not every dog needs the gourmet treatment.
 
I will kill or die for the

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to put whatever the hell I want on mah HHHHHHOOOOOOOTTTTDDDDDOOOOOGGGGGSSS!!!!!


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DaveSimmons said:
I was lazy this 4th, so I had Hebrew Nationals, microwaved, on un-toasted white bread buns, with French's yellow mustard, sweet relish and yes -- Heinz ketchup.

They were yummy.

I loved them as a kid, and they still taste good now. Not every dog needs the gourmet treatment.
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They were yummy because they were Hebrew Nationals.

Except for the microwaved part (ewww) I've eaten Hebrew Nationals the same way. Though because they are so tasty I need but put a little bit of condiments on them.
 
renz20003 said:
Sometimes I like ketchup on a hotdog... Y'all can eat a dick.
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Uh, so can you. I never do. To each his own. 🙄
DaveSimmons said:
I was lazy this 4th, so I had Hebrew Nationals, microwaved, on un-toasted white bread buns, with French's yellow mustard, sweet relish and yes -- Heinz ketchup.

They were yummy.

I loved them as a kid, and they still taste good now. Not every dog needs the gourmet treatment.
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That's AOK, but really, you did not need the relish and ketchup, they were uncalled for.
 
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