Finally an answer! Why Chicagoans do not put ketchup on hotdogs

[Dantankerous]

No one here has mentioned the beauty of mayonnaise on French fries yet? 🙃

[Subdeacon Joe]

53 minutes ago, Dantankerous said:

No one here has mentioned the beauty of mayonnaise on French fries yet? 🙃

 

 

Only if homemade with lemon and garlic. 

[Blackwater 53393]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

About 20 yrs ago, we went to the NASCAR race in Martinsville, VA. They have a very red hot dog. The standard order has kraut on the dog. Very good. Still don't know what brand it it is, but unique to Martinsville.

Here’s your Martinsville Speedway hotdog!!  They switched brands several years ago and caused a riot!!  Changed back the next year!

 

Jesse Jones Hot Dogs 12 oz

Jesse Jones famous red southern hot dogs come ten (10) to a 12 oz pack. As a pork first protein product, they have a sweet yet subtle flavor that has been loved for generations. In North Carolina, we dress our hot dogs up "All The Way" with yellow mustard, chopped onions, Jesse Jones hot dog chili, and slaw for a tasty, filling, and affordable meal. Loved since 1926, grab a pack and enjoy Jesse Jones hot dogs today!

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Here’s your Martinsville Speedway hotdog!!  They switched brands several years ago and caused a riot!!  Changed back the next year!

 

Jesse Jones Hot Dogs 12 oz

Jesse Jones famous red southern hot dogs come ten (10) to a 12 oz pack. As a pork first protein product, they have a sweet yet subtle flavor that has been loved for generations. In North Carolina, we dress our hot dogs up "All The Way" with yellow mustard, chopped onions, Jesse Jones hot dog chili, and slaw for a tasty, filling, and affordable meal. Loved since 1926, grab a pack and enjoy Jesse Jones hot dogs today!

 

The dogs are probably more popular that the race these day with this Gen ? car. 

 

BTW - Martinsville is this upcoming weekend. Five hundred laps around the ole paperclip!

[Blackwater 53393]

They sell 65,000 to 70,000 of those dogs at the event. 
 

NASCAR has done well where it was born and raised. You can see the difference when you look at attendance in places like Martinsville or Charlotte and compare it to Las Vegas or El Dora, (which NASCAR closed and is having trouble getting reopened).

 

As to the newest version of the Cup car, if they’d quit messing around with tires and horsepower restrictions and get back to the season points as opposed to this playoff crap, you’d see some racing and a bunch of fans who left returning!!

[Pat Riot]

8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Here’s your Martinsville Speedway hotdog!!  They switched brands several years ago and caused a riot!!  Changed back the next year!

 

Jesse Jones Hot Dogs 12 oz

Jesse Jones famous red southern hot dogs come ten (10) to a 12 oz pack. As a pork first protein product, they have a sweet yet subtle flavor that has been loved for generations. In North Carolina, we dress our hot dogs up "All The Way" with yellow mustard, chopped onions, Jesse Jones hot dog chili, and slaw for a tasty, filling, and affordable meal. Loved since 1926, grab a pack and enjoy Jesse Jones hot dogs today!

I remember seeing these at Food Lion in Concord, NC - just down the road from the Charlotte Motor Speedway. I bought them and tried them once…Once!

I was not impressed. 

[Blackwater 53393]

15 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I remember seeing these at Food Lion in Concord, NC - just down the road from the Charlotte Motor Speedway. I bought them and tried them once…Once!

I was not impressed. 

NOBODY said they’re great! They ARE a tradition!  You gotta do the whole recipe to get that MARTINSVILLE effect.  Roast ‘em up and pile on the chopped onions, the Jesse Jones chili, and the coleslaw and yellow mustard!!  🤪

 

Otherwise, you are better off with a nice Nathan’s or Hebrew National!! 😎

[Pat Riot]

58 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

NOBODY said they’re great! They ARE a tradition!  You gotta do the whole recipe to get that MARTINSVILLE effect.  Roast ‘em up and pile on the chopped onions, the Jesse Jones chili, and the coleslaw and yellow mustard!!  🤪

 

Otherwise, you are better off with a nice Nathan’s or Hebrew National!! 😎

So, make them like a Carolina Dog? I could do that. 

 

Nathans are okay grilled or smoked. I can’t stand Hebrew National hotdogs. Don’t know why. 

[watab kid]

On 3/22/2025 at 8:18 PM, Doc Shapiro said:

Ketchup is a vile, disgusting, overly sweet concoction.  Did I mention that I can't stand the stuff?

im with you here - i never eat katsup , and i never eat hot dogs , im a coarse ground bract guy and i p[refer the venison my friends make here 

[Doc Shapiro]

Just now, watab kid said:

im with you here - i never eat katsup , and i never eat hot dogs , im a coarse ground bract guy and i p[refer the venison my friends make here 

 

The little corner shop down the street has amazing bison hot dogs.  So good. 

[watab kid]

6 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

 

The little corner shop down the street has amazing bison hot dogs.  So good. 

i would love those if available , ive had such when a friend came back from his buffalo hunt and shared his take , very lean and very flavorful , 

 

hot dogs as produced by our home state weinermobile company is just not real meat to me 

[Rip Snorter]

The incredible tube steak - we only use them to give the dogs their meds.

[Doc Shapiro]

20 minutes ago, watab kid said:

i would love those if available , ive had such when a friend came back from his buffalo hunt and shared his take , very lean and very flavorful , 

 

hot dogs as produced by our home state weinermobile company is just not real meat to me 

If you want to come visit, this meal can be arranged.

[Pat Riot]

14 minutes ago, Bandit Biker said:

Ketchup when it came to the U.S. was sort of a sweet, often nutty, brown sauce. (It quickly developed an offshoot that became the barbecue flavoring family, for those squicking out about the horrible disharmony of sweet with savory and spicy.)

It also was something a bit posh and developed through British imperialism, so I would guess that given that a good portion of Chicago's immigrant population of the time were from eastern and southern Europe, the general flavor profiles that ketchup had and had evolved from didn't mesh well with the cuisines the majority grew up with.

Which might go towards explaining why Chicago, for all of its love of meat, didn't hop on the barbecue wagon the moment it heard of the concept.

A few years back I was making ribs on the smoker. After I smoked them a while I was going to put them on the charcoal grill and seer and add bbq sauce. Trouble was I didn’t realize we were almost out of bbq sauce so I mixed ketchup with my bbq sauce and used that. 
The ribs turned out darn good and no one said a word about tasting ketchup. My son-in-law wanted my sauce recipe. I wouldn’t tell him in front of everyone else. When I told him later he laughed and said “Seriously, what sauce did you use. 
I told him 1/2 Sticky Fingers Memphis Original and 1/2 Heinz Ketchup. 
About a month later he texted me with “I’ll be da**ed! I tried your bbq / ketchup mix and it worked great and tasted just like what we had at your house. 
Now, that was a one time thing. I haven’t done it since. I don’t want Sticky Fingers finding and banning me from their products. 

[watab kid]

53 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

If you want to come visit, this meal can be arranged.

if time and family allow i might take you up on that , i never knew how busy retirement was 

[Rye Miles #13621]

I’m meeting a buddy of mine at the Hot Dog Factory, Foot long and fries for $9.99. Lots of ketchup on it or maybe I’ll try catsup instead!😂

 

Pics later

[Blackwater 53393]

On 3/25/2025 at 6:05 AM, Dantankerous said:

No one here has mentioned the beauty of mayonnaise on French fries yet? 🙃

My grandson prefers ranch dressing! 🤢

[Rye Miles #13621]

6 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I’m meeting a buddy of mine at the Hot Dog Factory, Foot long and fries for $9.99. Lots of ketchup on it or maybe I’ll try catsup instead!😂

 

Pics later

Yum 😋 

[Alpo]

Why is it split?

[Rye Miles #13621]

4 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Why is it split?

I don’t know! Maybe easier to bite into??

[Alpo]

If you were putting chili on it instead of ketchup, that would be a good idea. Just ladle chili in the groove instead of trying to set it on top of a curved surface.

 

Also there appears to be a couple of burn marks on it. Did they cook that on a grill? That might be the reason for the split - split it open and lay it on the grill and it cooks completely quicker.

[Cypress Sun]

38 minutes ago, Alpo said:

If you were putting chili on it instead of ketchup, that would be a good idea. Just ladle chili in the groove instead of trying to set it on top of a curved surface.

 

Also there appears to be a couple of burn marks on it. Did they cook that on a grill? That might be the reason for the split - split it open and lay it on the grill and it cooks completely quicker.

 

Grilled bun only, my guess.

 

The split dog would hold the chili better...unless I was the one slopping the chili on....then you're gonna get the chili on you regardless!

[Blackwater 53393]

1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Grilled bun only, my guess.

 

The split dog would hold the chili better...unless I was the one slopping the chili on....then you're gonna get the chili on you regardless!

If you don’t end up wearing some of your chili dog, it wasn’t done right!! ❤️

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Yum 😋 

That looks like a real “footlong” Rye.Mmmm

 

In Sacramento at Winco they had true footlong hotdogs and they had footlong buns and they both tasted great. In Oregon and SoCal if you could find a footlong they were actually 9”, not a “foot” long. 
I ordered a “footlong” at a hotdog shop in Cypress, CA and it was 9”. I asked the waitress where the other 3” was and without missing a beat she said “The 3” is in my boss’ profits.” Then she turned and walked away. 
As I left I told her “Tell your boss I found snd lost a new place to eat in the same day.” She smiled and I left. Never went back. 
 

Around here and SW PA you could find footlongs at every burger joint when I was a kid. Now you’re hard pressed to find a hotdog, let alone a footlong. 
 

One more thing: Subway advertised Footlongs. I went to get one. That’s what they call their long lousy sammiches. Bastages!

[Rye Miles #13621]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

If you were putting chili on it instead of ketchup, that would be a good idea. Just ladle chili in the groove instead of trying to set it on top of a curved surface.

 

Also there appears to be a couple of burn marks on it. Did they cook that on a grill? That might be the reason for the split - split it open and lay it on the grill and it cooks completely quicker.

I think it was grilled, they cook it in the back but you can’t see them. It was $9.00 not $9.99 like I said. Drink was two bucks so it was $11,00 and change. This was at the Food court at the mall. Pretty tasty and the fries were great!