Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but In n Out double double with everything is the world's best..and, yes, I understand that each one takes a month off my life, but they are SSSSSOOOO good.
Originally Posted By Labuda Wow, there's a few things here I need to respond to... ""I don't even like the way the man orders a hamburger! What kind of a man orders a cheeseburger without ketchup?" Laura Ingraham" I have a friend who eats his cheesbegurgers naked. Weirdo! He HATES ketchup and stuff. "Good heavens. Ketchup on hot dogs should be illegal. You gotta put mustard on a dog!!!" Oh, 2oony - a hot dog should have onions, ketchup, and mustard. Silly you!
Originally Posted By Labuda "If your old enough wash it down with a Beer, my choice is a Pabst." Pabst? On purpose? And is the Juicy Lucy better than In-N-Out burgers? For ME, the best burger is a Whataburger
Originally Posted By beamerdog Best hot dog: The dog fried onions/green & red peppers mustard ketchup sauerkraut relish btw, here's the raw video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcp7qwF_r_E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...7qwF_r_E</a> He actually first asked for "a spicy brown mustard" and gave Dijon as an example. I thought the remark about paying for the food was funny. at Citizens Bank Stadium
Originally Posted By alexbook Biden ordered a Swiss cheese burger with jalapeno peppers. Sounds awfully foreign to me. ;-)
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Never-Put-Ketchup-Hot-Dog/dp/0979789230" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Never-Pu...79789230</a>
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I'm telling you, no person who knows their stuff will ever be okay with ketchup on a hot dog. It's like chocolate syrup on lasagne, it just isn't right. You go to Chicago and ask for ketchup on a hot dog and you can be arrested in some places. Go to a street vendor in New York and ask for ketchup on a dog and you'll get it, but you'll also be viewed as the sort of person who would order screw-top wine at an upscale restaurant. Ketchup on fries? Fine. Ketchup on a burger? Okay. Ketchup on a hot dog? No way!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I'm 100% with you K2M! I tell people all the time that it's against my religion to put ketchup on a hot dog. I mean, it's WRONG MAN!! Think of the children!!!! Mustard, onions, relish. That's about it! Hamburgers can have ketchup and fries for sure.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Pabst? On purpose? >> Absofreakinglutely. In fact I need to restock tonight.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I'm 100% with you K2M! I tell people all the time that it's against my religion to put ketchup on a hot dog. I mean, it's WRONG MAN!! Think of the children!!!!<< You are an individual clearly of fine upbringing and impeccable taste and no doubt received superior scholastic marks as well.
Originally Posted By DAR I know the no ketchup on a hot dog rule is big with my neighbors to the south. But since I don't aspire to be like them, I put ketchup on my hot dog. Though I much more of a bratwurtst guy. And at Miller Park they don't have ketchup but Secret Stadium Sauce.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip This essay pretty much says it all... <<Cecil replies: Paul, I know you don't mean to act like an alfalfa-chewing barbarian, but this is like asking why Leonardo didn't paint the Mona Lisa on black velvet. Ketchup is destructive of all that is right and just about a properly assembled hot dog (and we're talking about a pure beef hot dog, not one of those things you could serve with dressing on Thanksgiving). Ketchup smothers the flavor of the hot dog because ketchup makers add sugar to their products. That takes the edge off the highly acidic tomatoes, but it takes the edge off everything else, too. Which is exactly why a lot of parents like it, according to Mel Plotsky, sales manager for the David Berg hot dog company in Chicago. (Chicago is one of the hot dog's holy cities.) Put ketchup on it and a kid will swallow anything--and from there it's a straight shot to Velveeta cheese, Franco-American spaghetti, and Deborah Norville. For that matter, you want to watch the mustard, too. Plotsky says your mainstream brands like French's put in too much turmeric and whatnot. What you want is some unpretentious mustard like Plochman's that enhances rather than competes with the flavor of the beef. You should also steam or grill rather than boil your hot dogs--water leaches away the flavor and softens the wiener till it becomes non-tooth-resistant mush. But--getting back to the original question--you say you like the taste of tomatoes. Fine, then eat tomatoes, as God meant them to be eaten--fresh sliced and piled on top of the hot dog. The recommended ingredients of a hot dog with everything, in order of application, are mustard, relish, chopped onion, sliced tomato, kosher pickle spear, optional peppers, and celery salt. (Many think you have to get kraut in there too, but Cecil wants a hot dog, not Oktoberfest.) People get pretty emotional over the ketchup question. Mel Plotsky opened our discussion by describing the condiment as a "catchall of garbage." Over at crosstown rival Vienna Sausage, they refer to ketchup as the "K-word." If you go into an authentic hot dog joint and ask for ketchup on your hot dog, the counterman will pause and look you in the eye. He may or may not say, "Ketchup?" with a tone of disbelief. But you may be certain what he's thinking: "Behold this creature that walks like a man. It wants ketchup on its hot dog." But hey, if you want ketchup, by all means get it. — Cecil Adams>> Source: <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/679/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog" target="_blank">http://www.straightdope.com/co...-hot-dog</a>
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I put ketchup on my hot dog.<< The first step to healing is admitting you have a problem, DAR. >>Though I much more of a bratwurtst guy<< See? There's always hope!
Originally Posted By Labuda "<<Pabst? On purpose? >> Absofreakinglutely. In fact I need to restock tonight." Well, I likely have no room to talk. I drink Miller Genuine Draft 64. lol
Originally Posted By Labuda See, this threead is a prime exampkle of why I love LP... snack wars in World Events! Btw, churros from CostCo rock.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Actually, when your tastes mature you will scrap beer in favor of wine. ;-)
