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Though you avert a tiny bit of pesticide each time you dress your dog in organic ketchup, you'll have to place your buns elsewhere for a big eco-payoff.
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Marlene Dietrich's favorite meal? Champagne and hot dogs.
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Are you behind the hot dog condiment times?
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C'mon, ketchup. Tastier sausage-toppers are a Fourth of July must(ard), and now there are great organic versions to relish. Here are the best of the bun(ch).The Benefits
- Sweet meat. We devoured all different types of condiments to find the absolute best, so you don't have to.
- Cleaner wieners. Less pesticide use in organic products means less chance of them getting on your dog - and in our groundwater.
Personally Speaking
He's not proud of it, but tipsy nights for Toshio in SF's Mission District inevitably end at one of the bacon-wrapped hot dog carts.Wanna Try?
- Dulcet Creole Mustard - a bit pricey, but oh-so-delicious mustard with a kick that'll spice up even the blandest soy dog ($8/7 ounces).
- Hawthorne Valley Sauerkraut - five extremely tasty, salty, handmade sauerkraut varieties ($5/15 ounces).
- Woodstock Farms Ketchup - bold and sweet with a hint of caramel, it comes in a squeeze bottle with a wide lid ($4/20 ounces).
- Whole Foods 365 - tastes like a solid version of your fave premade pickle paste, but it's organic ($3/10 ounces).
Jul 02,2008
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You Say Tomato, They Say I Don’t Think So
Personally, I like to load up my hot dogs and sausages with mustard (I second the Dulcet Creole mustard recommendation in today's tip, though anything packed with horseradish will do), relish, onions, and sauerkraut, if it's available. I've been wary about going with ketchup, one, because I'm not that big a ketchup fan in the first place, and two, my friend in Chicago said you'll catch a verbal beating from the city's hefty (in numbers, people) Polish contingent for putting ketchup on your cased meats.
I remember eating hot dogs in Chicago a while back, but the details lay buried beneath a haze of Old Style. Does anyone know if this is true? Is it "wrong" to put ketchup on your dogs? I'd like to avoid disgracing my Polish heritage any further than I already do if at all possible.
-Mike...off to follow Toshio to the bacon dog cart...
Biter Comments...
I'd like to see more tips about eating non-meat food items! As the animal agriculture industry takes up a vast amount of resources and releases more greenhouse gases than all of our cars, I think it's time we stopped kidding ourselves and just went veg! You can't be sustainable on a meat-based diet.
Is the Whole Foods organic product you recommend one of the many that they source from China, where it appears it is not yet possible to guarantee that anything claimed to be 'organic' actually meets USDA standards, even though WholeFoods put a USDA organic label on their China-sourced foods? Your readers may be interested to view the report at http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0508/521743.html
When I buy a hotdog from a cart I like to add saurkraut, corn relish, hot pepper rings, dill pickle chips, cheese, fake bacon bits, olives and grainy mustard. Oh, and I tell them to hold the dog itself, and just enjoy the toppings! (I still pay the regular price). Weird, but tastes great; I don't like the taste of hotdogs much.
Organic or non-organic, I would NEVER commit the outrage of putting ketchup on a hot dog! I CRINGE whenever I see someone putting ketchup on a hot dog. Ketchup is for burgers and fries, NOT hot dogs! Either Dijon or spicy brown mustard goes on my wieners. Still, I'm not a ketchup gal anyway. I much prefer barbecue sauce on the VERY rare occasions when I do have a burger, and I totally avoid fries.
Food is for eating the way you want. It's not the traditional way a Chicago style hot dog is served, but is obviously an acceptable form of hot dog eating. After all know one at a baseball game ever claimed it was sac-religious to put ketchup on their hot dog.
Yeah, Get a life, putting ketchup on a hot dog is an "acceptable" way of eating a hot dog, I'm not saying that it isn't (to each his/her own), but it's just not MY "acceptable" way, that's all. As I said, I'm NOT a ketchup gal, and, yes, I DO cringe whenever I see someone putting that red stuff on a hot dog, because that's just me.
For a standard hotdog, if it has traditional green sweet pickle relish or cheese, it gets ketchup, if I am going to eat it.
If it has saurkraut, it gets mustard, and no cheese.
If it has chili it can have cheese, but nothing else...no mustard or ketchup.
If it has hot onions, it gets nothing but that.
Here in NJ, we have something referred to as the "Italian hotdog" which is served on a half of a round Italian pizza bread. Mustard goes on the bread, then the hotdogs, then onions & peppers, potatoes, and then ketchup on top of the potatoes.
So in that instance, you have both mustard & ketchup.
I have always loved ketchup. I will put it on anything. But nothing beats a hot dog with spicy mustard, ketchup and cheese. Even on plain white bread. In fact I can a hot dogs 6 at a time, 3-4 times a day and nothing else. My wife won't let me. In fact because ketchup comes i a plastic bottle, we make our own. I have 4 kids and they think i'm crazy.
Green Nation Gardens
NO KETCHUP ON HOT DOGS! I actually love asking the good vendors for ketchup and seeing the twisted looks on their face. Then my day is made. However, I haven't eaten tubed meat in over 15 years!
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Posted by: Susan | July 02, 2008 at 08:03 AM