2012 Presidential Election Thread......

[Boz]

I don't think even Communists put ketchup on a hot dog. That's just F'n crazy. Like Scientology crazy.

[TBird41]

Oct 20, 2008 22:56:55 GMT -5 Cambridge said:

Oct 20, 2008 22:09:51 GMT -5 HoyaSinceBirth said:

I don't like your anti ketchup policy but I do like your anti Syracuse policy...

Clearly you are an elite east coast elite. Way to eat your hot dog like the commie bastard that you are...eat up comrade.

I think you're going to lose the Midwest w/ that anti ketchup policy. I'm a big fan of ketchup and I know my fellow Midwesterners are as well.

That being said, I do agree with your Selma killing policy

[Cambridge]

Oct 21, 2008 9:13:11 GMT -5 TBird41 said:

Oct 20, 2008 22:56:55 GMT -5 Cambridge said:

Clearly you are an elite east coast elite. Way to eat your hot dog like the commie bastard that you are...eat up comrade.

I think you're going to lose the Midwest w/ that anti ketchup policy. I'm a big fan of ketchup and I know my fellow Midwesterners are as well.

That being said, I do agree with your Selma killing policy

I disagree. I was once told sternly at a Tigers game that putting ketchup on your sausage was a sign of mental instability. You were basically signalling to the world that you were either an axe murderer or a tax lawyer. Either way, persona non grata.

[TBird41]

Oct 21, 2008 9:15:03 GMT -5 Cambridge said:

Oct 21, 2008 9:13:11 GMT -5 TBird41 said:

I think you're going to lose the Midwest w/ that anti ketchup policy. I'm a big fan of ketchup and I know my fellow Midwesterners are as well.

That being said, I do agree with your Selma killing policy

I disagree. I was once told sternly at a Tigers game that putting ketchup on your sausage was a sign of mental instability. You were basically signalling to the world that you were either an axe murderer or a tax lawyer. Either way, persona non grata.

Interesting. Maybe it is a Minnesota thing, b/c prior to Gtown I'd never heard anyone that cared.

Either way, I'm willing to make the sacrifice if it means the expulsion of Syracuse from the Union.

[Cambridge]

Basically, I guess your part of the mid-west is unamerican. You must come from one of those liberal enclaves, I believe they call them communes or mirs. I bet they have a lot of them up there in the big city of Minneapolis. Isn't that the city where that deviant Prince comes from? Oh, and public radio? Gasp. I'm sorry, but back here in real America, we don't tolerate purple rain or ketchup on our dogs.

[hoopsmccan]

Is there a compromise that ketchup is ok if it is joined by mustard on a dog? I'm not afraid to work with the ketchup people, but I'm a bit of a maverick.

hm

[TC]

I would advocate a system in where the amount of ketchup you can use on a hot dog steadily declines over time - if you do not want ketchup on your hot dog, you can trade your license for ketchup to someone else - "catsup and trade", if you will.

[Boz]

This is slowly evolving into either the worst or best thread going on the board.

I'm not sure which yet.

What I am sure of is that it is not bitterness that makes me cling to mustard and mustard alone. Catsup people do not share my values. Those who would say that a mustard-only stance is hurting our standing in the world clearly do not understand condiment policy and are not fit to lead this nation.

Joe(y) the Competitive Hot Dog Eater does not use catsup. Joe(y) the Competitive Hot Dog eater knows that America = mustard (and possibly relish).

Don't even get me started on the sauerkraut people. Damn third-condiment lunatics.

[TBird41]

Oct 21, 2008 10:26:27 GMT -5 Boz said:

This is slowly evolving into either the worst or best thread going on the board.

I'm not sure which yet.

What I am sure of is that it is not bitterness that makes me cling to mustard and mustard alone. Catsup people do not share my values. Those who would say that a mustard-only stance is hurting our standing in the world clearly do not understand condiment policy and are not fit to lead this nation.

Joe(y) the Competitive Hot Dog Eater does not use catsup. Joe(y) the Competitive Hot Dog eater knows that America = mustard (and possibly relish).

Don't even get me started on the sauerkraut people. Damn third-condiment lunatics.

I'm a big fan of chopped onions on my hot dogs.

Apparently, I'm the Ron Paul supporter of hot dog eaters

[BuffaloHoya]

Ketchup does not belong anywhere near a hot dog or sausage (or hamburger, for that matter).

When it comes to any sausage, you can add a number of delicious mustards, kraut (which can only be paired with mustard), hot sauce, horseradish, peppers and/or onions, maybe a few others I'll need to approve. To put ketchup on a hotdog is one thing, but on a sausage? That's probably the most disgusting thing anyone could ever do to a sweet, sweet link (short of the idiots who put mayo and lettuce on their sausage/dogs... trust me, I've been on a few stadium road trips, been to most of the MLB parks, I've seen it done).

As for hot dogs, acceptable condiments include the aforementioned mustards, chopped onions, chili & cheese, relish, Weber's Hot Texan Sandwich Sauce, and probably a few others I can't think of off the top of my head.


EDIT: Boz... this thread is the best on the board right now. Bar none.

[Bando]

Oct 21, 2008 9:18:55 GMT -5 Cambridge said:

Basically, I guess your part of the mid-west is unamerican. You must come from one of those liberal enclaves, I believe they call them communes or mirs. I bet they have a lot of them up there in the big city of Minneapolis. Isn't that the city where that deviant Prince comes from? Oh, and public radio? Gasp. I'm sorry, but back here in real America, we don't tolerate purple rain or ketchup on our dogs.

Hey now, any place who's nickname is "Funkytown" can't be all that bad.

[Jack]

I will come out and say it: I am a ketchup-user. It is a matter of some shame, as I know it puts me in a minority, but I am tired of living in fear of the tyrannical mustard-only majority. My right to enjoy ketchup on my hot dog does nothing to mock the sanctity of your hot dog eating experience. To force me to use mustard, relish, or other non tomato-based condiments on my meat products is just as disgusting to me as the thought of slathering a ballpark frank in Heinz 57 is to you.

[SoCalHoya]

FYI the history/origin of ketchup/catsup is amazing.

[nodak89]

Hitler used mustard.

[TBird41]

Oct 21, 2008 11:03:19 GMT -5 nodak89 said:

Hitler used mustard.

Stalin used catsup.

(Churchill used Ketchup)

[hoopsmccan]

“Ketchup is ‘one of the greatest successes the sauce world has ever known,’ wrote Elizabeth Rozin in the Journal of Gastronomy (Summer 1988). In its brilliant red color, its rich flavor, and its marked salinity, Rozin theorizes, ketchup represents the “fulfillment, both real and symbolic, of the ancient and atavistic lust for blood,” magically achieved with the use of plant products alone. Rozin also draws an analogy to the Christian Mass and its fruity surrogate for the blood of Christ, but I forget how it goes. All I know is that I discovered a case of Del Monte in one of the celebrated kitches of Piemonte, in northern Italy, vying with tartufi and porcini for the chef’s affections. And last year in Paris, in a kitchen soon to recieve its second Michelin star, I watched the chef add a dollop of Heinz to his sauce of salmon’s blood, red wine, and verjus, a postmodernization of Escoffier’s sauce genovoise. Cervantes once wrote, “La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre,” the best sauce in the world is the hunger. Cervantes had obviously never tasted ketchup.”

- Jeffrey Steingarten, “Playing Ketchup,” The Man Who Ate Everything

(I tried to find the whole article/chapter but couldn't)

[vcjack]

I'm very neutral about ketchup but I know that I'll need to appeal to the party base so I'll have to trust VP Cambridge on this issue.

I will focus my presidential energies on more important issues, such as granting the Coca-Cola company a monopoly on soft drink manufacturing while nationalizing Pepsi-Co (for gatorade) and then dismantling all of their inferior products.

I will however compromise and ban the use of the word "Pop"

[strummer85]

As a fellow ketchup user, I think that this entire discussion about the appropriateness of condiments is well beyond any of our pay grades. But we all agree on certain fundamental principles, most importantly, removing Syracuse from the Union. So we can all reach that middle ground, and build from there. As a ketchup user, I also love mustards. So maybe we should begin with the basic Syracuse principle and move forward based on a relatively unanimous support for mustard. When and if we reach a point where mustards are popular and prevalent enough to make all our hotdogs better, then we can discuss the role of ketchup.

[BuffaloHoya]

Oct 21, 2008 12:16:11 GMT -5 vcjack said:

I will however compromise and ban the use of the word "Pop"

Just lost my vote.

You bake with "soda." You drink pop.

[TBird41]

Oct 21, 2008 12:53:24 GMT -5 BuffaloHoya said:

Oct 21, 2008 12:16:11 GMT -5 vcjack said:

I will however compromise and ban the use of the word "Pop"

Just lost my vote.

You bake with "soda." You drink pop.

Mine too. I'm not going to vote for someone from Wisconsin who's flip flopped on the pop/soda issue because he was too worried about elite east coast elites making fun of him for using the word pop. Only Elite East Coast Elites care if people use pop or soda. No need to legislate this.

Well, that and you like the White Sox. That's been sticking point for me for awhile.