The Hot Dog Debate

Around Independence Day and other great summer holidays people start trying to tell other people how to eat hot dogs. I don't usually get involved because I'm a grown man and my taste buds and me know what I like.

I love my hot dogs on a toasted bun with mayo, mustard, catsup, and sweet relish. I do not eat raw onions ... ever. If I decide to make a sausage dog, it's mustard only ... well, I have topped it with caramelized onions and peppers from time to time.

 Grilled dogs with mayo, mustard, catsup, and sweet relish with twice fried french fries ... perfect.

(For reference, barack hussein obongo made the comment that nobody should put catsup on a hot dog after the age of 8. If you use obongo as a guide, don't put catsup on your hot dog.)

This is how obongo eats a hot dog without catsup. Big Mike approves.

If I want a slaw dog, my wife and I have perfected our own slaw that is somewhat like KFC slaw but better. I put a thin layer of mayo on the bread so the juice from the slaw doesn't make the bread as sloppy.

If we have chili dogs we eat them with our own chili with NO beans like God intended.

And after hearing all the horror stories when I was young about the ingredients for hot dogs, and they may be questionable in low quality processing plants, I was glad to have spent some time working doing specimen collection for several different large processing companies that I will not mention here and I have no problem at all eating a hot dog because I know what goes into them. There have always been and there will always be lower quality processors but if you buy better quality, you don't get snouts and guts.