some of you really need to take your food opinions less seriously and stop giving evil little gremlins like me the power to instantly upset you by saying i eat ketchup on my hot dogs or whatever
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Last year I read an article about an Italian Marxist professor who enjoys trolling other Italians for insisting on very specific "traditional" food accuracy.
I always remember him saying "My grandparents' culinary tradition was trying not to starve"
This goes double for anyone who insists that their "traditional" italian food has tomatoes in it. (They're a New World plant! Italian dishes containing tomatoes are frequently fucking awesome, but they're not "traditional"!)
I met someone at a picnic who loudly proclaimed, "I only eat ORGANIC hot dogs" and she was visibly offended when I said, equally loudly, "only the finest lips anuses for YOU!"
I like pineapple on my pizza which I will then dip into ranch because it is good and watching the haters jump around like monkeys is funny to watch while I eat my pizza
Yeah I used to get into "fights" about stuff like pineapple on pizza because I thought we were all just messing around... then I realized that some people were most assuredly not >_<
Honestly, if you post that you like eating apples 🍎 🍏, someone will post berating you for not eating oranges 🍊, even though you weren’t comparing the fruits.
Thinking about the time someone on this platform said if I attack British food I’m defending the Nazis because it was all Brits had to eat during the war lmaoo
I’m not British but live in England and I still have no idea why your average family chooses to eat like the planes are flying overhead 😭 some of the school dinners I had here were dismal.
My hack for eating in this country is always go to international restaurants. I rarely have traditional British food because I don’t want to feel like a WWII evacuee every time I eat💀
I generally use bbq sauce, but lately I've been using thick balsamic vinegar on my sammies and my burgers. Condiments are meant to be used! Ketchup is excellent on hot dogs and fries.
There's a whole thing where some people think the only sauce on a hot dog should be mustard. It's very performative like most of those food outrage things
Well hate me. My perfect hot dog has chili, sauerkraut, onion, dill relish, cheese, bacon bits, mustard and ketchup on a french roll and yeah you need to use a fork. Anything less is a lack of commitment and respect.
i only like mustard on mine but why would i care what other people eat. the whole point of condiments is that people can easily customize their hot dogs/burger/sandwich
i do, too. i'm just not much of a fan of ketchup in particular. but i also grew out of my "publicly complaining about ketchup" phase as a child, as one does (in my defense my brother was a fiend for it, and somehow ended up literally covered in the stuff. it was objectively offputting lol)
did people used to care this much about what other people ate??? like i don't get it at all it's like wanting to argue to be debate perverts and that's it
unfortunately people have been weird about food always. i remember watching people argue about it in 2010 and thinking how i never wanted to see such an argument again 😔
Life becomes so much nicer when you let yourself enjoy the gremlin slop and the “elevated” bullshit. I used to eat at nice places semi frequently, and I’d always go out for a McDonald’s cheeseburger and icecream afterwards because it’s the perfect pairing to anything that costs too much money
Yeah, but what about a bit of salt and pepper on cantaloupe?
It’s pretty good actually.
Or, and this one is kinda out-there, dip a flaming hot Cheeto into some Nutella.
my ex and i ate costco dogs with ketchup for three years then she moved to chicago and within a month became a "ketchup doesn't belong on hotdogs!" purist.
I don’t like ketchup on my hot dog, but I also don’t care what people do because that’s a dumb thing to worry about. They put both bottles on the table for a reason.
I used to run the potlucks in a club i’m in and i instituted themes, one month the theme was “san francisco food,” i dared people to bring homemade rice-a-roni and got SEVEN, it ruled.
Same club, we have a yearly chili cookoff, last year i showed up at it with 40 hot dogs and this sign, half of the club hated me and the rest thought it was awesome 😹
That doesn’t matter on this website, you can say that pancakes are good and someone will tell you to have some respect because their cousin died from eating 500 pancakes
I was put on blood pressure meds and told to watch my salt intake or risk another stroke and by far the biggest loss is that I can no longer depression eat another large bag of Doritos for dinner
I’m in a similar position- gall bladder issues, so fried foods like potato chips or chicken nuggets or anything else made with gawd’s own love are off limits/severely restricted.
I’m waiting on being responsible for my hypertension next.
I have a bunch of strong food aversions, like a near phobic hatred for apples. But I don't get upset that others enjoy them. Same with pineapple pizza. Don't make me eat it but knock yourself out. I'm no fan of ketchup but if it makes your hotdog taste better to you, I'm happy for you. Sheesh/
If you do eat ketchup on hot dogs, do you have a recommendation of a ketchup that isn't too sweet? Like ballpark ketchup seems to not be as sweet and I'm having trouble replicating the flavor.
If putting pesto or alfredo sauce on beef ravioli is wrong, then I refuse to be right. I will enjoy my Totino's pizza rolls with a glass of mid-shelf pinot grigio and no one can stop me.
The best part about people eating food you don't like is that when they're done, the food is gone! The evil pineapple pizza or burger with ketchup and mustard will never get you now because it was eaten. We should thank people for eating all these "bad" foods for our protection!
I legitimately don't understand their fear of ketchup on hot dogs. I think it's all a big prank and only certain people are in on it, even though it's stupid.
I know the reason they originally said no ketchup was be/c ketchup would cover up bad meat, so if you could eat it plan it was good meat!
The only serious food opinion that I have is that steakhouses are mid for what you pay. You give me a dry aged steak and I can make you a better steak on my grill.
I’ve made a lot of obnoxious chocagoisms part of my personality since moving here 20 years ago but wholeheartedly support putting ketchup on hotdogs and will never back down
You haven't lived until you have had a miracle whip and creamy peanut butter sandwich on wonder bread.
This is something I've eaten since I was a little kid.
I worked at a coney style restaurant for a bit and people got so worked up about their hot dogs. Apparently we weren't serving one style exactly right because someone came in with a signed petition to get us to change
Northern Michigan, and I think we were using the wrong kind of relish? Or something. Something I definitely was not being paid enough to worry about, ha
if you knew some of the white trash shit i eat you would go insane. i am in the dumpster eating garbage like a raccoon and you're getting genuinely angry bc i said oysters are yucky disgusting
I ate two hotdogs with blue cheese, mayo, and ketchup like an hour ago. it whipped ass. last week I ate cheez whiz on naan bread. also whipped. I'm the queen of the culinary abortion and it rules
These are the moments when I channel my wife, who was for years the head sommelière at one of Seattle’s best restaurants: like what you like how you like it. It’s your money. She used to get people who wanted white wine with steak because they didn’t like red. Like what you like how you like it.
She would ask them if they were telling her that because they wanted her to help them discover red wines, or because they’re feeling somehow about the whites. When it was #1 she would bring them into approachable reds; for #2 she would bring them the closest white on the list to their favorite.
I like a lot of reds and i understand that it's Objectively Incorrect but i STILL prefer a dry white with steak tbh? I don't really like most red wines with food, period; the mouthfeel gets all weird imo.
once a friend had a potluck party where the theme was white trash, and I brought saltines and squeeze cheese. he started eating those and his wife was like 🫢 and he just said "honey, you're gonna learn a lot about me tonight"
Me as soon as I am left to my own devices when cooking: How can I incorporate melted shitty cheese into this. What abomination am I going to disappoint god with tonight
Also you totally can enjoy white wine with beef, I use it to make a pan sauce all the time. Red wine can go bitter with heat so you have to be a lot more sparing and gentle with it.
jokes on yall in the long run because after the apocalypse happens you think you're gonna be in that bunker underground eating seared scallops? hell no. you're gonna be in the food gutter with me and this can of ravioli
pretty sure i was well into adulthood before i ever had ravioli that *wasn't* from a can. And yeah this stuff is great, you can even eat it cold straight from the can with a spoon!😹
It's the best, like childhood & comfort right out of the can! Better at least warm imo, since there's just a little of the year here in AZ when you can't heat a can by leaving it in the sunlight for a while.
I legit keep a few of the giant cans of Spaghetti-Os on hand for if we have a power outage because of a hurricane or something, because they don't need to be heated up and the kids will definitely eat it.
I love the regular and the mini ravioli, I've never had this ravioli and meatballs but I bet it's bomb.
Also if you call yourself a pepper and don't have some of this, WTF are you doing? When shtf this stuff will be a treat!
Hah! Shows what you know. I have an extensive wine cellar in my bunker, and I know which wine pairs best with canned beans and which pairs best with dehydrated Mac and cheese!
our stomachs have been perfectly conditioned for decades to extract any nutrients possible out of things that are barely fit for human consumption. trasheaters will outlive all the rest
I ordered a soda at lunch and a friend of a friend scoffed and asked our mutual friend “whens the last time you drank SODA?” It was very weird and embarrassing for her.
that's when you want to be able to shoot lightning bolts, like get all glowing eyed and be like "it gives me POWER" maybe you did do that I don't mean to assume
when I was an obnoxious 20-something, I demanded to know why a colleague would eat a twinkie if he was a Buddhist; but he was one of those nem-ryenghi-riki buddhists, so I am unrepentant
people are huge elitists about food, especially if they think the food you like is "unhealthy." i got the same reaction for using milk lol. it's truly embarrassing to act like that around a friend of a friend though... immediate horrible impression of them
Fun Fact! If you drink warm dt coke (because you forgot about it) with your chef boyardee, it will taste a bit like you have a mouthful of blood
This has not meaningfully changed my diet lol
internet gremlins: bbq is sacred and is made directly only the highest quality regional ingredients
10 time annual bbq cookoff winner: *holding bottle of heinz ketchup in one hand and jar of welchs grape jelly in the other and dumping them both into a pot* "we start the sauce same as everyone else"
but cait, in lieu of developing an actual personality, i have devoted a not-insignificant amount of my self-worth to having Strongly Held Opinions about food!
If you like fizzy drinks 🥂 may I recommend my ✨️white trash wine cooler✨️
Equal parts peach wine and Fresca (reg or peach flavor work) [or sub your fav fruit wine]
It's great! Highly recommended to drink in summer ☀️
still very funny(?) that the most I have ever been yelled at on this platform - even as someone who posts about politics all the time - is when I posted a jokingly strident opinion about my preferred temperature to drink water at
One time on Twitter I made a comment about how I put water in the freezer and then pull it out once ice starts forming in it and then drink a delicious water slushie and a lady told me drinking cold water is bad for you and I was destroying my body as though I'd just said I like to drink Kerosene.
i'd literally memory-holed that post until you just brought it up again and my god that's one of the many times when i realized human beings are absolutely wild lol
I completely agree with this opinion. If nothing else because when I was a little kid, if I didn't eat the eggs my dad made me for breakfast, he would put them in the fridge and then serve them with ketchup on them for every meal until I ate them (or starved). So... ketchup + eggs == punishment.
It was pretty ghastly. I blame my brother partly, though. One of the reasons I wouldn't EAT the eggs my dad served was because my older brother told me my dad secretly put 'fingernail juice' in them (as he apparently also did with my milk). So I was TERRIFIED to eat these eggs...
And my dad legitimately though ketchup on eggs made them better, so he assumed he was enhancing the dish in such a way that I couldn't possibly refuse...
Ketchup goes on like two things, fries and hotdogs. People who argue that ketchup doesn't belong on hotdogs should just say what they really mean, that they hate ketchup and they hate life
I live in the Midwest and therefore I put Ranch Dressing on everything including waffles and the rest of the world can fight me over it. After I've had my Ranch flavored waffles for breakfast.
I dip my fishsticks in ketchup.
I put ketchup on my scrambled eggs.
I mix Miracle Whip and Ketchup to make fry sauce! Even better for fishsticks! And fries!
I pan fry my grilled cheese in a quarter inch of butter! Each side!
Crispy Crowns are superior to Tots!
I feel like Ketchup is the hot dog of condiments. I know it is loosely based on tomato’s, but I am sure that it is made up of the lips and assholes of said tomato.
when I was 8, at the eye doctor's, there was a NatGeo there. A man had written a letter to the editor that said that the previous issue's spread on our local Primanti's should be "ashamed" because we put coleslaw on cheesesteaks.
Okay but the other day my kid announced that he put salt on pizza and it was, quote, “actually pretty good,” and I am going to go ahead and say, tentatively, that we should not put salt on pizza
I am however open to opposing positions on this issue
same. but i will use ketchup if the steak is overcooked. only way I can stomach it at that point. been preferring my steaks pink since I developed anemia as a kid.
I’m a problematically picky eater, thanks to partially unresolved childhood trauma & potentially undiagnosed Autism Spectrum issues, so I don’t have any room to talk.
However: WhoITAF decided Salisbury Steak needed to be paired with Mac & Cheese?!? That’s almost a Hitler Baby situation.
The bigger this place gets, the more I see angry and openly aggressive people in my comments, looking for a skeet war. I don't know how larger accounts can stand it.
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I always remember him saying "My grandparents' culinary tradition was trying not to starve"
one does not order a hot dog medium rare
beware my whole identity is at stake
So. Many.
They have no excuse anymore not to cook like Great British Menu
Yeah.
I literally have no say what people do to their food- make it your own.
either way: tiring.
I'm honestly a spicy or deli mustard feller but it's almost embarrassing because of the freaks lol
It’s pretty good actually.
Or, and this one is kinda out-there, dip a flaming hot Cheeto into some Nutella.
Trust me, it’s the best kind of horrible.
Sweet relish, though, that’s just trash
My stomach, my choice. 🙀
Vindication! 😂
because it's true.
It's been a favorite
all my life.
Philadelphia dips
when they went to
plastic from metal
containers.
We're eating s\v kettle cooked for super with cream cheeze, sour cream
and lipton onion soup mix right now
and calling it supper.
A great standby.
We're fat and don't
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When we do we want maximum taste and enjoyment.
Thank you for the
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^or some variant of that and now I want pancakes
I'm living
"Hey, you guys! I put peanut butter on my toast to eat with over-easy eggs."
It will always hit
I def gotta say on that one. My palette can’t take it lol.
I also hate chicken/tuna salad, so don’t listen to me
W/the cheese tho, I see the vision
I’m waiting on being responsible for my hypertension next.
topping for a hotdog wtf
Discuss.
Put whatever the fuck you want on a hotdog. Eat pizza deep or thin crust. It matters not.
To those it does matter, ignore them.
This though:
https://www.sweetbabyrays.com/recipes/baby-ray-bites-(1)
tartar sauce is worse than child slavery
i like SPAM and also anchovies
they’re both really easy ways of adding umami to dishes that kinda suck otherwise
i got plenty of ketchup & recently controversial mustard
nice
Somebody get me a Costco dog!
I know the reason they originally said no ketchup was be/c ketchup would cover up bad meat, so if you could eat it plan it was good meat!
BUT... they're ok with mustard on hot dogs?? That is arguably a far stronger condiment & would more easily cover up bad meat.
So, it's either some big joke or they are just unserious people.
and then add maltodextrin to your next compound butter until it dries it out completely and you've got a lovely topping for popcorn.
And A1 Sauce is good.
Bluesky has the juice lmao
Cold from the fridge.
Fuck em.
You haven't lived until you have had a miracle whip and creamy peanut butter sandwich on wonder bread.
This is something I've eaten since I was a little kid.
I still liked it but i can atleast admit its kinda nasty.
fun fun time
My son and I fight over very specific plastic cereal bowls.
iron gut squad 💪
Also if you call yourself a pepper and don't have some of this, WTF are you doing? When shtf this stuff will be a treat!
hope your soda was delicious!
Also, regular or with meatballs? I prefer with meatballs, more because I cannot stand the tomato-cheese sauce they use for regular.
Where does Mr Cait stand on the beloved Spaghetti-o?
Still alive!
Pretty tasty.
This has not meaningfully changed my diet lol
I ain't about to front like a gourmand at you.
10 time annual bbq cookoff winner: *holding bottle of heinz ketchup in one hand and jar of welchs grape jelly in the other and dumping them both into a pot* "we start the sauce same as everyone else"
did you consider that, hmm?!
Equal parts peach wine and Fresca (reg or peach flavor work) [or sub your fav fruit wine]
It's great! Highly recommended to drink in summer ☀️
(myself included)
Warm water is surprisingly unpleasant to drink.
(i'm kidding, i'm a heathen myself)
I dip my fishsticks in ketchup.
I put ketchup on my scrambled eggs.
I mix Miracle Whip and Ketchup to make fry sauce! Even better for fishsticks! And fries!
I pan fry my grilled cheese in a quarter inch of butter! Each side!
Crispy Crowns are superior to Tots!
I bet Clinton had ketchup on his Bæjarins Bestu (Towns Best) hotdog when he visited.
I feel like Ketchup is the hot dog of condiments. I know it is loosely based on tomato’s, but I am sure that it is made up of the lips and assholes of said tomato.
I am however open to opposing positions on this issue
well, two occasions but it's weird it happened twice & so forth
However: WhoITAF decided Salisbury Steak needed to be paired with Mac & Cheese?!? That’s almost a Hitler Baby situation.
Almost.
It's your food. Do what makes you happy!