On Your Hot Dog

You jerk, you forgot all the options involving cheese.

new "what about with sardines" answers here

lol xp cheese & bacon are non-canon add-ons, even chili was stretching it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM

chili dogs and mustard/relish dogs are completely different species and must not intermingle!

anyway, my answer is yellow mustard + sriracha + sweet relish

I rep hard for the mustard dog, fwiw. if I'm making it myself I usually buckle and add ketchup but I almost always regret it. the plain mustard dog is a triumph of Teutonic simplicity imo

is this a tofu dog or have you backslidden?

MUSTARD

veggie dogs only for me, there's zero chance of me intentionally eating meat again in this life, but this poll is for everybody who eats hot dogs in any form

no kraut? gtfo!

where's sauerkraut?

lol - EXACTLY

for me (also on veg dogs only) it's always mustard and sometimes other things which may include relish, cheese, tomatoes and/or sauerkraut.

tbh every time my wife orders a chili dog I have a kneejerk impulse to file for divorce

I really really really dislike chili dogs

I see listings for ketchup. I see nothing for tomatoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM

mustard, mayo and bacon bits! (sometimes relish)

I love sauerkraut honestly and just forgot it cause I almost never have it on hand (I almost never have hot dogs outside of the ones I make myself) so if somebody wants to start a new poll abt that I can dig it

re: kraut -- another separate species -- they're all good

kraut + onions + spicy mustard

I've never had one of those Chicago-style trainwrecks (I'd like to though)

mustard + kraut

FEAR MY BREATH, HUMANS

if you are getting precious about ketchup but are a-ok with chili, you have the worst priorities in the world

mustard, mayo and bacon bits! (sometimes relish)

O_O

Mustard only on corn dogs, NYC cart dogs or posh hot dogs (would kill for a pack of Ambassador franks right now, can anyone hook me up?), mustard and ketchup on yr basic Oscar Meyers. I'm not a huge fan of chili/kraut/dressed hot dogs, or relish.

dan do you rep for this place?

http://www.spikesjunkyarddogs.com/

In re: ketchup -- clearly a matter of taste, as it were. I always did like the Straight Dope's take:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/679/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog

if you are getting precious about ketchup but are a-ok with chili, you have the worst priorities in the world

"my children went hungry while I was watching a rerun of a poker tournament on Fox Sports Chicago"
"where do you stand on ketchup & chili on hot dogs though"
"fuck them & the people that eat 'em imo"
"ok, we're cool"

ketchup, i find, is too sweet.

...although I suppose the butter and toasting bun treatment would make the overdressed dawg a bit less susceptible to bun disintegration.

NB hot dogs are the one 'sandwich' where I'm happy to butter the roll it's served in.

Tracer I've never even seen that place! While I appreciate their shameless attempts to pander to me by including jalepenos as an option, I look at their pictures and think "why not just go ahead and put on spaghetti noodles and tacos while you're at it"

xp: aero is 100% OTM, that is a person who knows how to live

Will - was that a O_O of awesome flavour discovery, or a O_O of disgust?

lol'ing v hard right now, ty DJP

wait no, aero is only 50% OTM, ketchup is perfectly acceptable on a hot dog!

mustard & kraut

mustard and onions. not in the poll but relish only is ;_:

Mustard and kraut, or mustard and relish, or frankly just mustard.

aerosmith, do you have a favored brand or method of preparation of tofu dog that doesn't taste like a moldy log?

ketchup/mustard/relish = great hot dog

ketchup/mustard/relish/ONIONS = perfect hot dog!

Sorry, Thermo, it was disgust. I love mayonnaise and have the waistline to prove it, but the idea of it on a hot dog kinda yacks me out.

try it. your waistline will not thank you.

also: mayo on Burgers too. it's the perfect life partner for mustard!

because I have been known to forsake the pigs whose very lives I have sworn to protect over this very issue.

ketchup/mustard/relish/babycorn/mashed potatoes = British hot dog*

* come on, we were going to go there eventually

chili dogs and mustard/relish dogs are completely different species and must not intermingle!

I used to eat ketchup/mustard/relish dogs until the invention of sriracha.

Mayo on burgers for sure! But I don't want creaminess on a hot dog, I want vinegary zing + umami.

if only we cd get all that stuff

there doesn't seem to be a ketchup/onions/mustard option?

99 percent of the hotdogs i've eaten in the uk have been horrible, the onions is usually the best bit

im not down with relish tbh. i'll put up with it on a chicago dog because you dont want to fuck with that blend of ingredients, but i'll never opt for it otherwise

if you put mayo on my burger, I will imagine punching you in the thorax so hard as I politely thank you and eat

i really want to go out and eat a dog for lunch now. or two.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YHbm-quo8zA/SMMB0y7p3eI/AAAAAAAAA5s/p39EzB6RdIE/s320/sad-puppy-762578.jpg

DJP - never eat at a Burger King. it will not go down well.

Whoppers are definitely an acceptable use of mayo

I have. I can't really in good conscience call them hot dogs, because they're too elaborate and unwieldy, but they are quite good.

I've been to all of the above, btw, except fRedhots. Wiener ... in Evanston has awesome, awesome corndogs, which I had on National Corndog Day (which you all likely missed, slackers).

Q for Chicago Dog eaters -- are "sport peppers" hot or mild?

Depends where you get 'em from, but generally they're pretty mild. Slight vinegar tang, yumm.

yeah, mild but sour/tangy

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ketchup only 8

barf

there are 8 8-year-olds on ILX?

lots of texturephobes

Chicago FTW.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:26 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Now and forever, absolutely. However, quality can sometimes very: The Weiner & Still Champion can be iffy. All the others are great, though.

As for sport peppers, I've only had hot ones. I don't know that any others exist. Sometimes they take on different characters: the ones from Irving's (where you can get a DOUBLE DOG) make my eyes water, and the ones at Portillo's are just as hot, but don't make me weep for some reason.

*vary

I didn't vote in this because of no chicago option, but I probably should've gone for relish + mustard.

I need some Chicago dogs right now.

crif "spicy redneck" is bacon, chili, jalapenos, slaw
I alway get a chicago dog when passing through, but haven't had a good one outside the city ... might be the local specifics of celery salt, relish, sport peppers
grays papaya: mustard kraut
at home: mustard, chopped claussens pickle, sriracha

I mean: french brie cheese look at this

presumably this means "from France" not locally made tho?

ie 98% of all brie or camembert sold in Australia is from Tasmania

they took our champagne and left us with "sparkling wine" but they shall never take our soft cheeses

Prefer local brie to the French stuff Ive had imo

I alway get a chicago dog when passing through, but haven't had a good one outside the city ... might be the local specifics of celery salt, relish, sport peppers

Dunno why, but Vienna Beef dogs (and some other ingredients) aren't available nationwide. One of the only times I had a Chicago dog on the east coast was a stand in eastern Mass. The guy who ran the place apologized for not being able to put the dogs on S. Rosen's buns.

I always thought hot dogs were pork as a standard meat. Is it just chi dogs that are beef? Dont think Ive ever seen a beef hotdog. A tofu one, sure.

there are pork, beef, turkey, chicken, some percentage of any/all of them, and you can get them pretty much everywhere.

I don't think I've ever had a pork hot dog - it's always been all beef or maybe chicken. and shoe leather.

Maybe its just that the Aus dog standard is porky offcuts and munge. Always with a bright red skin.

They have beef dogs (which is to say, kosher dogs) everywhere. But yeah, the Chicago dog is traditionally beef and specifically Vienna beef, thought he beef is the important part. The tour I took of the factory did a great job dispelling the urban legend that hot dogs are all grungy mystery meat.

It occurs to me that a lot of what we use as dogs here is frankfurters, which I guess isnt *quite* the same thing? Those pork things with the springy red skin. We call em footy franks.

Those are not the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YShN_wJ0E4

One of my favorite locals places is Gene and Jude's, which serves an awesome dog and fresh cut fries, though not a traditionally Chicago dog. Still, they adamantly refused to even humor ketchup, and will come close to kicking you out if you ask about it. I guess it was literally the founder's dying wish that ketchup never be served in his shop. There's a McDonald's next door, and they refuse to give you a ketchup packet without a receipt, for obvious reasons.

You can't even get ketchup for your fries?

...you wanna wind up in the hole? quiet man.

Prefer local brie to the French stuff Ive had imo

Mediocre triple-creams don't travel well

hot dog salad

barf

fried sliced dogs in worchester sauce, salad of lettuce, onion, avacado, celery, pickle, mustard vinagrette

Sounds good, actually

No. Cut-up hot dogs can only work in a lower-grade preparation, like this thing with fries, cheese, and gravy.

sliced lengthwise dog

fries, cheese & gravy is decadent and sodium-filled enough!

ketchup, mustard, mayonaise, pickles, and chopped fried & raw onions.

i like my hot dogs topped with a second hot dog

Just made three Olymel 100% beef dogs with (from bottom to top): relish, dog, peperoncini, chopped onion, a strip of smoked bacon, mustard, jalapeno havarti. Sort of a Chicago-Montreal hybrid, if Montreal had class.

11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. HOT DOG LUNCH - The American Meat Institute celebrates National Hot Dog Day with its Annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol Hill. With honorary co-hosts: Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) and baseball greats Whitey Herzog (St. Louis Cardinals); Mickey Lolich (Detroit Tigers) and Felix Millan (Atlanta Braves). Location: Rayburn House Office Building Courtyard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIFSnHwLaE

That's awesome. Makes me want to run for the Hot Dog council.

career path = bovine university > american meat institute

had a Chicago dog tonight, half of the 2 for 1 Wednesday special at Niko's... spot on if slightly squashed

i like ordering the 'stoner packs' from local hot dog place cuz they are always full of surprises. today i got two dogs wrapped in bacon, one with a fried egg and american cheese & the other with cream cheese, bagel seeds & scallionz. and tater tots. mmm fattey

I figured out that the key to making tofu dogs palatable for me is by adding a slice of cheddar cheese. They become utterly indistinguishable from cheap turkey franks.

Ever had a burger dog? Awesome and disgusting!

http://www.dennisyang.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/burgerdogplate.jpg

http://www.dizzypigbbq.com/images/RecipeImages/BurgerDogs/BurgerDogB4Roll.jpg

http://www.dizzypigbbq.com/images/RecipeImages/BurgerDogs/BurgerDogPrepped.jpg

Recipie:

http://www.dizzypigbbq.com/recipesBurgerDogs.html

there's a lot of comic sans haters around, and most of the time i'm one of them but that is a pretty tasteful and judicious use of comic sans right there.

no. it must die.