Hot Dogs -- The Great Debate I Never Knew About

NSMike wrote:

Hot dogs have only three viable iterations:

Bun, Heinz Ketchup, and Yellow Mustard.

Bun and Chili with optional cheese.

On a stick immersed in deep-fried corn batter.

Anything else is just getting silly and fancy, and it's no longer a hot dog.

Edited for great justice.

He wants us to remove our hotdogs from their buns and hold them above our heads! Everyone hold your hotdogs above your heads!

Wow, there's a Wikipedia article for *everything*.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog_variations

Being a North Carolinian, I will take this moment to restate my preference for chili, onions, and slaw. Yeah, that's cole slaw on a hot dog.

In honor of this thread, I will now cook 2 hot dogs. One shall be ketchup only, the other shall have mustard, onions, and sweet pickles. May the best dog win. Or me. For eating them.

Edit: I don't have bacon currently, but I did fry both dogs in bacon grease.

wanderingtaoist wrote:

Also, you Americanos despise mayo on fried foods only because you haven't tried it.

Nope, I've tried it.
I still think it's gross.

Jolly Bill wrote:

In honor of this thread, I will now cook 2 hot dogs. One shall be ketchup only, the other shall have mustard, onions, and sweet pickles. May the best dog win. Or me. For eating them.

Edit: I don't have bacon currently, but I did fry both dogs in bacon grease.

Umm...do you always have a supply of bacon grease handy, or did you not clean the pan?

This thread is making me want a hot dog

Psych wrote:
Jolly Bill wrote:

Edit: I don't have bacon currently, but I did fry both dogs in bacon grease.

Umm...do you always have a supply of bacon grease handy, or did you not clean the pan?

Cook your bacon on a rack over a pan in the oven. Gives you fully-cooked but soft bacon, perfect for wrapping things, and a nice pan of tasty, tasty grease, uncluttered by charred bits of anything. Let it cool a bit and store it in an air-tight container.

Kraint wrote:
Psych wrote:
Jolly Bill wrote:

Edit: I don't have bacon currently, but I did fry both dogs in bacon grease.

Umm...do you always have a supply of bacon grease handy, or did you not clean the pan?

Cook your bacon on a rack over a pan in the oven. Gives you fully-cooked but soft bacon, perfect for wrapping things, and a nice pan of tasty, tasty grease, uncluttered by charred bits of anything. Let it cool a bit and store it in an air-tight container.

This. I recommend frying eggs in the grease immediately after bacon extraction. Over easy, please.

St.Hillary wrote:
wanderingtaoist wrote:

Also, you Americanos despise mayo on fried foods only because you haven't tried it.

Nope, I've tried it.
I still think it's gross.

Mayo is gross on most things, tolerable on others. Worse, Americans had to make the devil's sauce worse by creating Miracle Whip.

Of course, a real gentlemen only accepts one true condiment -- Branston Pickles.

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Even the numerous merits of Zero Punctuation notwithstanding, the unrelenting advocacy of Branston Pickles alone is the reason enough for me to enthusiastically endorse Escapist Magazine's Yahtzee.

St.Hillary wrote:
wanderingtaoist wrote:

Also, you Americanos despise mayo on fried foods only because you haven't tried it.

Nope, I've tried it.
I still think it's gross.

I think they ONLY eat hamburgers in Texas with mayo, and NEVER with ketchup.

Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:
St.Hillary wrote:
wanderingtaoist wrote:

Also, you Americanos despise mayo on fried foods only because you haven't tried it.

Nope, I've tried it.
I still think it's gross.

I think they ONLY eat hamburgers in Texas with mayo, and NEVER with ketchup.

Ah, but hamburgers are trickier. What if there's a tomato? That changes the whole equation. To ketchup or not to ketchup, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the bun to suffer the cheese and arrows of outrageous char marks, or to take arms against a sea of pureed tomatoes; and by opposing, end them.

Yes, I'm sorry, I just can't stand for this Mayonaisse slander any further. It is the caulk that holds food together, the spackle that fills in the holes of flavor. I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

I couldn't eat a hot dog with mayonnaise on it. That would just ruin it for me. The only ingredient that MUST be on EVERY hot dog I'll ever eat is mustard. Any kind of mustard really.

Elysium wrote:

Yes, I'm sorry, I just can't stand for this Mayonaisse slander any further. It is the caulk that holds food together, the spackle that fills in the holes of flavor. I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

Amen brother! Up high!

Alright, I'm trying some hotdog experiments for supper tonight.

Elysium wrote:

I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

You had me for six pages. This, right here, is where you lost me.

Elysium wrote:

Yes, I'm sorry, I just can't stand for this Mayonaisse slander any further. It is the caulk that holds food together, the spackle that fills in the holes of flavor. I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

Wait, what?

So not only do you think that ketchup is a proper topping for a hot dog, but now we learn that you're slathering them in mayo? I suppose next we're going to learn that you think a hot dog is properly made from tofu.

Al wrote:
Elysium wrote:

I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

You had me for six pages. This, right here, is where you lost me.

Yeah. Credibility all shot to hell.

never knew ketchup was such an issue on hotdogs.

Growing up whenever I saw the yellow mustard commercials which would always have the shot of the people eating their hotdogs with just mustard I would get confused. Was always mustard+relish+ketchup applied in that order for me.

In my adult life I've become more experimental with my combinations (different mustards and relishes, onions and hot peppers) but its usually no more then 3 sauces, 2 veggies and 1 cheese. The more the merrier but too much and whats the point, you can't tell the difference then.

Mayo? wtf man. Mayo goes on sandwiches, especially club.

For the record, since I derailed a little with brats, I prefer my hot dogs with mustard and a little bit of ketchup.

Suck it.

Here's my favorite recipe

Crushed sesame bun
Beef hot-dog
Gulden's Spicy Brown mustard
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Heinz Relish
Sauerkraut

and yeah half the time I'll put a bit of ketchup. But it's true that as soon as you put too much ketchup it destroys the taste of everything else.

...

anybody else also think Bananas have that problem as well? As soon as there's bananas in a recipe, it covers everything else.

And here's a typically Quebecois "Snack Bar" plate

A Poutine and a Hot-Dog Dulac (with fries in it!)
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For the uninitiated, Poutine is french fries and fresh cheese curds covered with a light brown gravy (usually called barbecue sauce but not the sweet type)

interstate78 wrote:

And here's a typically Quebecois "Snack Bar" plate

A Poutine and a Hot-Dog Dulac (with fries in it!)
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For the uninitiated, Poutine is french fries and fresh cheese curds covered with a light brown gravy (usually called barbecue sauce but not the sweet type)

Oh god that looks good.

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Tofu dog Chicago style, with cheese/onion/tomato potato wedges. Not the greatest thing ever, but certainly the best Davis has to offer.

Poutine is why I do not go back to Montreal. I would die.

Psych wrote:
Jolly Bill wrote:

In honor of this thread, I will now cook 2 hot dogs. One shall be ketchup only, the other shall have mustard, onions, and sweet pickles. May the best dog win. Or me. For eating them.

Edit: I don't have bacon currently, but I did fry both dogs in bacon grease.

Umm...do you always have a supply of bacon grease handy, or did you not clean the pan?

I pour excess grease into an empty coffee can in the freezer. Saves my drain from the grease, and leaves me with extra.

Minarchist wrote:
Kraint wrote:
Psych wrote:

Umm...do you always have a supply of bacon grease handy, or did you not clean the pan?

Cook your bacon on a rack over a pan in the oven. Gives you fully-cooked but soft bacon, perfect for wrapping things, and a nice pan of tasty, tasty grease, uncluttered by charred bits of anything. Let it cool a bit and store it in an air-tight container.

This. I recommend frying eggs in the grease immediately after bacon extraction. Over easy, please.

My thoughts exactly.

Thowky wrote:
dejanzie wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Kerplunk wrote:

I asked my friend if he preferred ketchup or mustard on a hot dog and he replied, "Mayo."

Mayo.

I twitched and realized I didn't know him anymore.

Is he Dutch? I scorned the idea of mayo anywhere but a sandwich until I had some fries in Holland, served with a giant dollop of mayo, and I realised the intense greatness of it.

Belgians do this too, and for the record: we have the best fries in the world. They taste like FREEDOM.

Can't be the best in the world, you don't even serve them with vinegar! And they should be called Chips! :)

You can hide the vile taste of your "Chips"* by adding all the vinegar in the world, this doesn't change the cold hard fact you're a food TERRORIST who hates FREEDOM!

*Chips? That's like calling football "soccer". Insane, I tells ya!

Also: every sauce pales in comparison to Samourai/Banzai sauce. It tastes mighty good on everything! Spicy...

Elysium wrote:

Yes, I'm sorry, I just can't stand for this Mayonaisse slander any further. It is the caulk that holds food together, the spackle that fills in the holes of flavor. I don't always have mayo with a hot dog, but when I don't I feel like I've forgotten something important.

This is why it was ridiculous for someone to claim Americans don't respect mayo. In many parts of the country, when you order a burger or sandwich they ask you what you want on it assuming that whatever you answer is in addition to the mayo.

So ask for your burger with barbecue sauce, you're getting a burger with a little red sauce on top of a huge sloppy pile of mayo.