Hot dog and ketchup is weird then I don’t want to be normal
“Hot dog and ketchup? What’s wrong with hot dogs with ketchup? I like hot dogs with ketchup! …Hey, that fellow’s talkin’ about me!”
“And that makes a difference, doesn’t it?”
It’s weird if you’re a Chicagoan
Hot dogs traditionally should be served with like onions, relish, tomato slices, pickles, etc. They are depression-era food where you take the cheapest processed meat sausage and then pile it with cheap garden vegetables and canned goods.
Eating the hotdog with only ketchup is just covering your cheap processed meat tube with high fructose corn syrup.
It’s a conspiracy to make something as normal as jam on toast seem unnatural
jam on toast? preposterous. in cincinnati, where toast was invented by Coriolanus Toast III, it is customary to have navy beans, hubbard squash, and chili oil on toast. in fact, if you go to the community theater and get jam on your toast, the MC will squirt you with lemon juice and paddle your bottom with a bible.
The “ketchup on hot dogs is wrong” thing seems mostly unique to USAmericans
It makes no sense to me because I’m an older U.S. millennial and growing up you put three things on yer dog: ketchup, mustard, and relish.
As a fellow millennial growing up only the stinky kids put ketchup on their hotdogs.
it’s a Chicago and New York thing pretty exclusively to think ketchup on a hotdog is weird. but lots of media comes from those places, so it gets conflated with “all the sophisticated people on the continent feel this way”.
I eat my vegan dogs sans ketchup. I would never do that! Back in high school, my 10th grade history teacher said that ketchup on hot dogs is an abomination, and I totally agree with him.
Mustard, relish, onions? Absolutely. Maybe a simple vegan chili and cashew cheese if I’m feeling to load it up too.
