Why is it fashionable to eschew ketchup on hot dogs?

[pau17]

I actually tried a hot dog with onions and relish for the first time a few weeks ago and I have to say, it's tempting me to stray from my typical ketchup ways. It was a bigger and fresher combination of flavors, without the sticky/sweet ketchup dominating the experience.

 

[warpus]

There are few things people like more than loudly announcing how ketchup on hot dogs is bad (they'll usually use some word like "blasphemy" or whatever). I can't imagine anything that seems to garner such universal self-satisfaction among people as pointing out that they think it is wrong to put ketchup on hot dogs.

WHY?

I've never heard of this phenomenon you cite.

Mustard is the most natural thing you'd want to put on your hottdog - followed closely by ketchup. (Unless you're from Chile, in which case it's mayo and avocados)

 

[dirtyparrot]

Who cares about what others think. Go for what you like. Personally, I'll for a bunch of different condiments. Ketchup, mustard, relish, hot peppers, pickles, etc it's allgood to me.

 

[Traitorfish]

It's usually made from a combination of mechanically separated meat and advanced recovery meat. Hot dogs are to sausage as spam is to ham.

EDIT: Yeah, what Cutlass said, 'cept replace American with Brit.

And replace a food that's ideal condiment is worth getting excited over with a sort of wet, flavourless tube of unidentifiable, violently pink mush.

 

[Oerdin]

There is a burger place not far from my work which is actually fairly decent but the owner absolutely refuses to serve ketchup in his restaurant. I imagine he loses a lot of business for it too. Hasn't he ever heard the customer is always right even if his tastes are different then your own?

 

[Oerdin]

Ketchup on hotdogs . Why not put ketchup on filet mignon, or ketchup on lobster, ketchup on caviar, truffles dipped in ketchup. I needs to stop somewhere.

If you think your crappy commodity hot dog is any where near the same league as those other items then you have another thing coming.

Look on the bright side, legally speaking, hot dogs can only contain 0.01% rat droppings which means hot dogs used to be worse until they created a standard.

 

[REDY]

I like ketchup. I am giving it sometimes on spaghetti, pizzas or langóses. Of course depends on kind if it fits.
I have never had idea giving it on meat or sausages but I should imagine that it taste good.

 

[Cheetah]

Ketchup on komle? That is unusual. I mean, brown cheese, syrup, sugar, all perfercly normal, but ketchup?

Yep. And don't you dear call me uncivilised!

That's because people are getting more pretentious concerning food, and using ketchup is not very pretentious.

Reminds me of a brilliant comic strip [...] he dunks the entire steak in ketchup to the dismay of the chef and the waiter. Brilliant.

Ketchup on steak on the other hand, is a real no-no. Everybody except for Donald Duck knows that.

Me, too. I also put ketchup on macaroni, french fries, and sometimes in soup.

Soup? I don't get it...

Sometimes vegetable soup needs a little extra zing, especially if it's your mother's homemade soup and is a little tasteless or contains too much celery.

I'm tempted to say something about your mothers cooking skills, but I'll be nice.

If you think your crappy commodity hot dog is any where near the same league as those other items then you have another thing coming.

Look on the bright side, legally speaking, hot dogs can only contain 0.01% rat droppings which means hot dogs used to be worse until they created a standard.

Meh. Could be worse? Norwegians eat lutefisk - fish soaked in soda lye...

The Wisconsin Employees' Right to Know Act specifically exempts lutefisk in defining "toxic substances".