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StickierBuns wrote:

yeah.. well you look like a wiener....

JimmyinSD wrote:

yeah.. well you look like a wiener....

Mustardy.

StickierBuns wrote:

Mustardy.

is there any other way? everyone knows no self respecting red blooded American puts catsoup on a hot dog!

JimmyinSD wrote:

is there any other way? everyone knows no self respecting red blooded American puts catsoup on a hot dog!

Relish, fresh cut onion and yellow mustard.....premium. BUT....I do like a dog with ketchup as well. You know, when you have 3, one can be ketchup. 😄

Ketchup

Yellow Mustard

Yellow Onion

Prefer Beer or Beef Brat over hot dog myself...

StickierBuns wrote:

Relish, fresh cut onion and yellow mustard.....premium. BUT....I do like a dog with ketchup as well. You know, when you have 3, one can be ketchup. 😄

yea... I dont know about that last part. I had a lady in a dog wagon outside the Shedd in Chicago about kill her young helper when he offered to put ketchup on my dogs. She smacked him in the back of the head, looked at him and told him he was luck I wasnt a Chicagoan or I would have crawled into their trailer and choked him out. I am getting hungry for one now, dragged through the garden of course!

JimmyinSD wrote:

yea... I dont know about that last part. I had a lady in a dog wagon outside the Shedd in Chicago about kill her young helper when he offered to put ketchup on my dogs. She smacked him in the back of the head, looked at him and told him he was luck I wasnt a Chicagoan or I would have crawled into their trailer and chocked him out. I am getting hungry for one now, dragged through the garden of course!

One of my wife's clients is Vienna Beef out of Chicago....as you can imagine, we get a ton of hot dog/sausage samples. Too many to eat ourselves, we end up giving a bunch to friends. And if you want to seriously reduce your life expectancy in a real way, eat hot dogs on the regular. Its guaranteed to assist in that goal. So you pick your spots. I eat more with ketchup than I do anything else. But yeah, out in the cities that are known for their dogs, you eat them the way you're 'supposed' to.

StickierBuns wrote:

One of my wife's clients is Vienna Beef out of Chicago....as you can imagine, we get a ton of hot dog/sausage samples. Too many to eat ourselves, we end up giving a bunch to friends. And if you want to seriously reduce your life expectancy in a real way, eat hot dogs on the regular. Its guaranteed to assist in that goal. So you pick your spots. I eat more with ketchup than I do anything else. But yeah, out in the cities that are known for their dogs, you eat them the way you're 'supposed' to.

I am so jealous, cant find a decent hot dog most the time in the rurals. there is good ol Irish boy in Watertown SD that makes great pizzas and beers and few years ago he started the "proper hot dog company" they do a really good job on their dogs, but for some damn reason they dont steam their buns before building a Chicago, that unsteamed bun cant hold up to all those topppings.

Oscar Mayer used to be our clients and we went there for quarterly biz updates (Madison, Wi) for years...Very smart people who I felt very badly for after the Kraft/Heinz takeover.

Got to tour their factory and I can tell you (at least back then) everything at one point was pink sludge. Whether that be a hot dog, bologna or god knows what else.

Wow, one would think the wiener tangent would have shown up in the Johnson thread…! 😇

JimmyinSD wrote:

I am so jealous, cant find a decent hot dog most the time in the rurals. there is good ol Irish boy in Watertown SD that makes great pizzas and beers and few years ago he started the "proper hot dog company" they do a really good job on their dogs, but for some damn reason they dont steam their buns before building a Chicago, that unsteamed bun cant hold up to all those topppings.

So IMO, Vienna Beef is decent but not great. No way I'm bagging on free hot dogs, salami and sausage of course, but I wouldn't say its a premium brand either. Famous one that's been around to awhile for sure. We get samples twice a year: just before football season and then last month sometime before summer really kicks in. They also sell product to foodservice (schools, hospitals, restaurants, etc.) so they sent some burgers....yikes. Not good. I was stoked when I saw them but they taste gross. Generally lower quality for foodservice items.

StickierBuns wrote:

Relish, fresh cut onion and yellow mustard.....premium. BUT....I do like a dog with ketchup as well. You know, when you have 3, one can be ketchup. 😄

This is the way

Several decades ago when I lived in Colorado, there was a Chicago Hot Dog walkup store in Avon (below Beaver Creek)...no seating, but they had the very best Chicago-style hot dogs with Chicago-style condiments...I think skinny yellow peppers on Nathan's hot dogs in addition to all the other stuff you guys mentioned?