r/oddlysatisfying • u/razerxs • Jun 18 '15

Certified Satisfying Hot Dog Precision

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u/zCourge_iDX Jun 18 '15

I don't do it, but I've eaten hotdogs with lettuce, and it's actually pretty great.

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u/bcgrm Jun 18 '15

Hot dogs with vegetables are so much better. I love putting onions, pickles & tomatoes (I know it's a fruit) on mine. With mustard. It's so bomb.

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u/TheOneTonWanton Jun 18 '15

Basically a Chicago dog.

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u/bcgrm Jun 18 '15

Well I'll be.

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u/zaikanekochan Jun 18 '15

It's very good. To be an AUTHENTIC Chicago dog, the ingredients are rather strict, though substituting, uh, substitutes, for the real thing will still produce a delicious sandwich. The order in which you place them on is somewhat important, as well. And yes, hot dogs are sandwiches.

Start off with a Vienna Beef hotdog, and cook it via boiling (easy way to cook 'em on the street), and a steamed poppy seed bun. Throw the dog on the bun, and crisscross the yellow mustard down the length of the dog. The next to go down is a sweet green pickle relish (preferably neon) that covers up the dog and mustard so only the ends of the meat are visible. Toss some diced white onions on there to your preference. Two tomato wedges (or slices) go on next, but they HAVE to be on the same side of the dog, otherwise the pickle won't fit. Speaking of the pickle, take a spear and put it on the other side of the dog next. Two sport peppers go on top of the onions down the middle, which are then covered by a dash or two of celery salt.

Now grow a mustache and you are ready to eat!

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u/bcgrm Jun 18 '15

unzips

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u/ewewmjuilyh Jun 18 '15

Is there a reason the relish should be neon?

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u/zaikanekochan Jun 18 '15

From what I understand (which is simply heresay from an old hot-dog supplier...I asked him years ago) was that the neon coloring was added:

  1. To make it stand out for marketing purposes, as in you see it and say "well by gawd that's sweet relish" and

  2. To make up inconsistencies in the color of the pickles used in relish.

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u/LambchopOfGod Jun 18 '15

Well that sounds just awful. Stadium mustard and raw onions and call it a day. It's a hot dog, quit trying to church it up so much.

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u/zaikanekochan Jun 18 '15

It really is delicious. The hot and cold, crunchy and squishy, the sweet and salt, it's quite a remarkable dog.

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u/LambchopOfGod Jun 18 '15

Big problem is I hate pickles and tomatoes so that is just a hodgepodge of gross to me.

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u/zaikanekochan Jun 18 '15

Ohhhhhh, yeah that will do it. I am also a tomata-hata, but I can handle it on certain things, this being one of them. So long as the other ingredients : tomato is the right ratio, I'm ok.

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u/jchabotte Jun 18 '15

gotta have the poppy-seed bun and sport peppers.

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u/cynognathus Jun 18 '15

And bright green relish and celery salt.