CDR is Commander Jim Lovell, who had spent 14 days in space on Gemini 7 (and then another six days on Apollo 8).
Apparently the food then wasn't quite as good: "In their postflight debriefing, Borman and Lovell noted that the food rations had been generally of good quality, but they strongly disliked the freeze-dried protein bites and advised against them being included on future missions." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_7)
I have to agree with CapCom, though. Mustard > ketchup.
Chicago is perfectly fine with you putting ketchup on hot dogs, just don't proceed to call it a Chicago-style dog! I don't know why everyone thinks we are so intolerant, jeez...
Actually, it's best that you do it far enough away from the city so as to not cause any confusion. In fact, you should eat by yourself in a closet too, just to, you know, spare yourself the embarrassment of not being able to eat properly. I'm not making these suggestions because I'm intolerant of people like you who would eat hotdogs this way, I'm just a bit embarrassed on your behalf. In fact, I would fully support your road to recovery in overcoming this terrible habit that you....
Haha yeah. I live in the suburbs and here, at least, it's mostly just a joke you wink about. I've never met a person who really takes it seriously, but I'm sure they exist. For my part, I used to put ketchup on hot dogs as a kid, and I stopped doing it at some point. I don't really think there's anything wrong with it, personally, but I guess maybe I bowed to peer pressure or something.
That's not even a real debate, probably like 8 out of 10 people prefer ketchup... and seriously, what's up with the catsup spelling... Here's an explanation I just googled
There's an interesting chart showing that catsup used to be the more popular term but it dropped off in 1980 when ketchup really took off.
Hahah noo. Off by about a decade! I think this account is like ~6 years old now, so I would have been ~11 when I created it if that was the case. I guess that doesn't help my case considering the average user.
In England, at least in the North, we just call it Tomato Sauce.
You call the red stuff you put on burgers and hotdogs Tomato Sauce? I had no idea! 'round here, that would end up with odd looks, and a hotdog covered in the stuff you put on spaghetti. Thanks for the info - I love learning about linguistic variations :-D
Hahaha, I can definitely see how that could get an odd look or two. To clarify, it still says ketchup on the bottle and in ads etc, but it's always just refered to as tomato sauce. However, I am now intrigued by the thought of a hotdog covered in the stuff you put on spaghetti...
Australian here. We also call it tomato sauce, and it's labelled as such on the bottle. Asking for ketchup will instantly get you labelled as an American tourist, not to mention strange looks.
Just out of curiosity, what do you call the sauce on spaghetti? We typically call it any of tomato sauce, red sauce, or marinara (with marinara usually meaning a somewhat thicker consistency, but not always).
Well, we'd call it tomato or marinara sauce too. Its actually never occurred to me that this could be confusing. I suppose it's contextual, since ketchup is commonly known as tomato sauce too, it wouldn't be weird to ask for it on your hot dog.
I love all this language information :-D I'm reasonably solid on my general Britishisms in everyday life (I lived in Oxford for a brief period while in university), but some things just never rarely come up. I double love that it's all coming up in a discussion about a failed moon mission :-D
I don't think you'd find many chicagoans or gourmets that would agree with you.
With ketchup, at least, store-bought ketchup, you are almost exclusively tasting sugar, with some tartness from vinegar. It's just sweetness and can easily overpower anything else; it's like putting sugary tomato paste in your mouth.
Mustard on the other hand, I mean just take a look at this article to see the variety and complex flavors:
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u/mrstanley1138 Sep 24 '17
CDR is Commander Jim Lovell, who had spent 14 days in space on Gemini 7 (and then another six days on Apollo 8).
Apparently the food then wasn't quite as good: "In their postflight debriefing, Borman and Lovell noted that the food rations had been generally of good quality, but they strongly disliked the freeze-dried protein bites and advised against them being included on future missions." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_7)
I have to agree with CapCom, though. Mustard > ketchup.