Ketchup on a hotdog. May as well cook your steak well done, put raisins in your potato salad and drink unsweet tea...

I like my dogs simple. Either in a bun with ketchup only or as a footlong in a bun with chili (no beans) and shredded cheese

West of Exton on Lincoln Highway was a place which sold long dogs, fries right from the spud, and pitchers of birch beer. Dim, smoky, weathered, greasy room. It burned down at some point ... never to be replaced. Wow, what a grille they ran!

Plain was the way to eat it.

reviewing the many varieties of dogs that I've either favored at one time & abandoned, or will never even give a trial taste, the complexity of individual satisfaction continues to astonish me.

My Luddite taste buds continue to be satisfied with mere yellow mustard on dogs.

As a close-relative food choice, my the 50th wedding celebration of my great uncle in 1955 was at a large country meeting hall. There was a room-length table full of jello-dishes in vogue at the time. The most grotesque in my memory was the lime jello with chunks of bologna suspended in the green jiggly stuff.

Green jellony - makes you harken back to your preschool days doesn’t it?

Me, I’m sticking with the holy trinity - yellow mustard, relish and chopped onions when I fall off my diet at Costco. They’re sinfully delicious.

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Originally posted by Sportshooter:
yellow mustard, relish and chopped onions when I fall off my diet at Costco.

I will get two of those Costco dogs just like that every once in a while but for some reason they make me belch garlic for a full day afterwards

Sweet relish
chopped onion
hot sauce or yellow mustard. Never both.

Go pro. Steam the rolls with beef-onion broth.

Served "plain" or with chopped raw onions.

I also like "chow-chow" and yellow mustard on my hot dogs.

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
I also like "chow-chow" and yellow mustard on my hot dogs.

Me too.....the HOT Chow-Chow!!

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
I also like "chow-chow" and yellow mustard on my hot dogs.

Omg- "chow-chow" are you originally from central PA? I have not heard that in so long! My father was from Shamokin and we ate that when we were there. I only heard of it in Central PA.

Ketchup and sauerkraut

Bacon wrapped dog with grilled chili's and onions from an LA street cart outside of a night club at 2:00 am.

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Originally posted by SiggiGirl:

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
I also like "chow-chow" and yellow mustard on my hot dogs.

Omg- "chow-chow" are you originally from central PA? I have not heard that in so long! My father was from Shamokin and we ate that when we were there. I only heard of it in Central PA.

Nope the city I live in has a lot of residents with southern ancestry, I have been told that it was a southern style relish.

Chow-Chow is most definitely a Southern style relish, forever.

Bacon and chopped onions

I had a Skip's Chicago Dog in Avondale Estates today. Polish sausage with mustard and sauerkraut. Highly recommend.

chili sauce (finely ground beef and no beans) or chili. Mustard is good. Relish is nice.

I'll skip the raw onions. Onion rings would be good as a side. Ketchup on those.

I've been known to put some mayo on the bun. Or even ketchup if no chili is available...

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Originally posted by sigalert:
Trying to find an equivalency to ketchup on a dog. Is it like, say, putting syrup on grits? I can’t really say. I’m not just a Yankee, I’m a Yankee in California.

Several pages ago I said it’s like putting pineapple on pizza. You just don’t do either.

I live in Wis. and we have great hot dog joints. A proper hot dog consist of a Vienna style dog, steamed bun, mustard, onion ,relish,tomato and a slice of a good dill pickle. A couple of years ago we bought a winter place in Florida. One day while out getting familiar with the neighborhood we spot a "Chicago Style" HD joint. My wife and I thought GREAT lets have lunch. It consisted of a dry bun, an Oscar Meyer type HD, mustard, onion and KETCHUP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy crap did that suck. And don't get me started on pizza down there.