You might be surprised by this, then! I've never understood the anti-ketchup-on-hot-dog crowd. Why is it okay to put on a hamburger, but not a hot dog? It can't be because of the type of meat...half those hot dogs are BEEF franks! My guess: Hot Dog resembles a penis, and ketchup resembles blood, and some people with pansy-ass constitutions can't handle the implication...
In the UK putting ketchup on hot dogs is pretty run of the mill. I don't understand why you lot have such a hissy fit over it. Over here we put ketchup on a sausage sandwich or a bacon sandwich, so why not a hot dog? I usually have a bacon wrapped dog with mustard, ketchup, gherkin and onion. Either that or I do a chili dog using my own homemade chilli. Suits me fine.
I've had British ketchup before. It tastes nothing like the Murican ketchup that is loaded with corn syrup and way too sweet. British ketchup (or catsup? ) more closely resembles tomato paste in taste. That I would throw on a hot dog or sausage frank.
What "British ketchup" are we talking about here? I usually just use Heinz, which is the most popular here by a country mile.
@shootER - OMG, what a steel-trap mind! I think I probably mentioned my loathing of mustard maybe once in the entire time I've been here. It's not the taste, necessarily. If it's hidden in a recipe, mustard doesn't bother me. I think it's the smell. Somewhere buried deep in my childhood memory banks there must be me Irish grandmother's use of mustard plasters or something. (Cue teh Stupids' predictable ageist comments.) It's associated in my mind with medicine, not food. I'm certain Flashy/Soma (Slashy? Foma?) would eat Sloan's Liniment, but that's no arbiter of normalcy. The only foods I can abide the taste of are green olives and Miracle Whip. And you're right, @gul - that's probably a deep-dish pizza, but I was looking for an image where the cheese wasn't just an afterthought. Truth is, most NY-style pizza isn't terribly photogenic, but you can't beat the taste. I'm told some of the fancier pizza joints in LA actually import their dough from NY because the hard water out here makes for an inferior dough. ETA: That should have been "can't abide," not "can."
That's probably true. There is a bagel joint here that claims to use Brooklyn water. It may well make a difference, but it is still a gimmick, because you can make "Brooklyn water" in a lab. Brewers do this all the time if they use more than one production facility. Make the local water chemically identical to the water used in the original location and boom, same beer! As a home brewer, I even do this, treating my water to resemble Burton on Trent's water.
Heinz ketchup is tailored to each country's tastes. In Canada it's quite vinegary. In the US it's sweet.
Well, it appears we have a heritic who needs to be thrown of the fire. The real anwser is it is both too acid and too sickly sweet. If you want tomato taste then put tomato on it but ketchup is over processed rubbish which ruins the whole balance of a hot dog. Hell, if you want that throw some pico on it but, for the love of god, don't put ketchup on it. Nothing good comes from that and vefore you know it your eating curry wurst.
Yeah, that must've been the difference I tasted. American food has a lot of added sweeteners that I never noticed until I spent three years outside the country.
I always used to put ketchup on my hot dog. Then I turned 11 and put away such childish things. Mustard and sweet pickle relish, baby! Maybe some sauerkraut, maybe some onions if you really wanna be decadent.
Inquisitor story If says Heinz ketchup's main ingredient isn't tomatoes, is corn syrup. On the label Heinz breaks the corn syrup into "corn syrup" and "high fructose corn syrup" so it won't be the first ingredient listed.
Yes, heaven forbid one puts an over processed garbage condiment on an over processed garbage food. Let's throw some fucking mummified cucumber slices on the pile of garbage while we're at it.
When we say "hot dog" that's really not specific IMO. Cheap store brand hot dogs might be pork & chicken. But all beef franks are another story. Thus the condiment choice really cannot be "one size fits all." I am really pleasantly surprised at the new hot dogs (beef franks) served at Burger King. I like the classic frank that comes with relish, onions + catsup & mustard as the default - no chili dog trappings for me. I highly recommend it!
Oh come on! Just because you have to use Carbon 14 dating to see how long they have been for sale it doesn't mean they aren't delicious!
Hold on now Federal Farmer - never eat seven hundred and eleven hot dogs? That blows Cool Hand Luke's egg record right out of the water!
