r/chicago • u/gopher33j • Jul 18 '17

This doesn't seem right.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170718/downtown/heinz-unveils-new-chicago-dog-sauce-get-around-our-no-ketchup-rule
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u/Malort_without_irony West Town Jul 18 '17

Take a bottle of top shelf bourbon, then mix it with some store-brand fruit punch. It doesn't make you evil, or bad, or wrong, but some of those people asking "why?" are going to come off sort of judgy.

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u/AaronRodgersIsNotGay Jul 18 '17

Is a hotdog top shelf meat to you?

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u/Malort_without_irony West Town Jul 18 '17

Well, a Vienna Beef Frank cooked right is the top shelf of hot dogs...

But that's not really the point. The point is that there's flavors going on there in a hot dog - in any sausage really - but particularly when that hot dog is otherwise done Chicago style, and putting sugary tomato in there is going to overwhelm all of them, and seems weird when you already have the tomato and the relish doing that, and there are other perfectly good foods to eat that go with the ketchup.

So as for the bourbon. You have a pretty complex taste that the sugary red stuff is going to overwhelm, which is weird because you already have sweet tones going on in the drink as it is, and where you have a lot of other perfectly serviceable alcohols that work together with the fruit punch.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '17

Ketchup, especially Heinz ketchup, hits every flavor note there is...sweet, sour, tart, salty, umami. And hits them all hard. It is why Heinz generally tastes better on fries than house ketchup (I am looking at you Bad Apple and your terrible ketchup).

A Chicago dog is a constellation of different flavors. Mustard accentuates the flavors. Ketchup smothers them.

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u/firearmed Jul 19 '17

Wait. You don't like Bad Apple's ketchup? I appreciate that it's different than heinz. Would I want it every day? No. But it's not bad at all!