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Catsup is an acceptable hot dog condiment in the following situations only:
1. You have purchased a sub-par dog (you can tell the sub-par dogs — they are the ones that are individually wrapped in the foil packets and then fossilized under a heat lamp) and there’s no options other than catsup and mustard. This frequently happens at ballparks on 25¢ hot-dog day.
2. You are allergic to mustard.
3. On a dare.
A proper hot dog has slaw and that weird brown mystery hot dog sauce on it. Or chili and cheese. Or mustard and pickle relish. Or kraut. But not a combination of all the aforementioned, because that would be gross.
What is NEVER appropriate on a hot dog is, of course, mayo. Ye gods.
Addendum: Tony’s Hot Dogs thanks you for this question.
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Heh. Clearly I should look into sponsorship.
My default hot dog has ketchup and mayo on it.
Ketchup always, unless I’m getting chili on it. And the space between the bun and the dog? Perfect place for long-cut french fries to be placed lengthwise in either case.
No. Mayonnaise and a slice of processed cheese.
Always. Mustard is a sometimes condiment.
Gotta admit to taking a bit of sugared tomato on my dog, though absolutely plain is just fine for a really nice link.
Cecil Adams answered this long ago.
Jesus, did I just read mayo up there? Jesus.
That’s how we do it in Europe, Maxwelton.
I don’t allow ketchup to come anywhere near any food product I actually want to eat and enjoy.
Ketchup is like Coca-cola. Inorganic, chemically altered beyond recognition of whatever it was made of, cloyingly sweet and totally pervasive in western culture.
Also, both work really well for cleaning pennies.
Love ketchup but it does NOT go on hot dogs. Mustard, yes. Mayo I refuse to even discuss. Of course the Euros put mayo on hot dogs. They also put it on fries. They don’t know any better and we can only look at them with pity and a touch of contempt. BOP has correctly listed the acceptable ways to eat a hot dog.
I’m more of a mustard guy, spicy, brown, yellow or a mix of the above is all good. Ketchup is alright, I think the overall sweet taste of the commercial stuff (Homemade isn’t as sweet) needs something to balance out the “brightness” of the flavor.
Relish and mustard is the best mix, no doubt, a bit of sour and sweet and meaty pork/chicken/beef/whatever flavor.
Mustard is good. I often add mayo ’cause I love mayo (suck it, haters). Ketchup is completely alien to me.
Ketchup, mustard and chilli all vital parts of the hotdog experience
Yow. There are places in Chicago that will not put ketchup on a hot dog for you.
That said, in my old age I like everything, so I’d pretty much put anything on a hot dog that was available. But the default is mustard (yellow, please).
Ketchup on a hot dog is an abomination. There is something seriously wrong with those who insist on putting ketchup on a hot dog. It’s revolting and disgusting. It’s something that’s just not done, no explanation needed to satisfy those lowlifes that insist it’s OK. I have an idea, the next time you finish that dog with ketchup try parking a Vespa Scooter at a biker bar. Then we can start a thread about what’s wrong with that.
And then the ketchup bottle accidentally bumps the hotdog next to it and all the hotdogs start to slowly fall over like dominoes and land in a big pile of mayo.
If it’s a “hot dog”, typically ketchup and mustard. Occasionally something more elaborate: chili, sauerkraut, animal crackers, etc. If it’s a sausage, ALWAYS just brown mustard. ALWAYS.
Just let people enjoy what they want. Only elitists that try the copy the badass-ness of clint eastwood actually give a rat’s ass about what other people eat. MMMM Ill think Ill have a ketchup dog now.