It's a chili cook-off today at work. I got a small bit of the "no beans" chili. But I couldn't pass up the taco salad. Hope I have room for the pecan pie I went back for.
As opposed to what? Mustard? {cringes} don't even joke about something like that. How do you make your chili?
What kind of spices, cuz, it sounds like the same way everyone else makes chili. I'm sure lots of people like the way you cook it. I don't really like chili cuz ... well, I don't like chili powder or chili peppers or ... kidney beans or ... well, most anything that goes in chili. I was just trying to be nice.
Cayenne, jalapeno, black pepper, salt, onion, garlic. I'll start with those Shelby chili packages that used to come in a brown paper bag, and build from there. Meats are usually ground beef, polish sausage and thick-cut bacon. For beans, it's pinto, kidney, and black. For a base, usually a strong tasting beer and maybe a little bourbon. Sometimes some spicy V8.
I seldom eat chili. In fact, it's a new phenomenon since I've gotten older and even my taste buds are going to shit. But, if I do eat it, it's got to be pretty bland for most people.
Hot dogs are for kids. If you're adult enough to prefer mustard over ketchup, you shouldn't be eating hot dogs!
This. Ketchup on a hot dog is fucking nasty. Jenee should apreciate this, though: My lunch today was a Chicago-style dog with fries and a Mexican Coca Cola (made with real sugar instead of that corn syrup shit).
I'm not from Chicago, I just happen to be living here presently, so Chicago-style anything is probably not my preference. And the only thing good on a hot dog is ketchup and sweet relish.
Nope. Not by a long shot. I'd never had a Chicago-style hotdog before today and wanted to try one. It was good, but I have no use for sweet relish at all (on anything). I did like the pickle redundancy, though, of sweet relish and a dill pickle slice on the hotdog. My favorite way to eat hot dogs is with brown or spicy mustard and pepperoncini slices or, if I'm at a decent deli, sauerkraut. Even as a kid I thought ketchup on a hotdog was gross.
I'm weird in that I don't like sweet relish. But I do love pickles, and I believe that a good hot dog has to have at least 5 things thrown on it before it can be "good."
From top to bottom hot dog constructionL diced onions chili yellow mustard -Hot dog - yellow mustard toasted bun That's how you construct a good hot dog.
My preference as far as hot dog toppings is: ketchup, diced onion, and shredded cheese. Acceptable alternatives/additions include chili and baked beans. I don't care for mustard on a hot dog, but like either yellow or spicy brown mustard on a sausage or hot link. Strangely, on a corn dog, nothing goes better than some yellow mustard.
, though you forgot about the shredded cheese that goes on top of all that. I didn't include chili dogs in my list because, to me, they are a separate food group from "hot dogs".
Please tell me your lack of preference towards Chicago style doesn't include Chicago Deep Dish and that you do, in fact, love a piece of deep dish.
