We’ve gotta get a picture of this! Finally, a place that embraces putting ketchup on hot dogs. And the ketchup-dousing hot dog is wrapped in an American flag, showing an all-American hot dog can use ketchup.
This tiny city in Florida, Brooksville, flaunts the mustard-only rule and shows the hot dog is perfectly happy with ketchup.
For years I’ve been laughed at, shunned, and denied my favorite condiment when I asked for it on my hot dog. From Maine to Mexico from Vancouver to Vero Beach people scoff at ketchup on hot dogs. Once, in Chicago, an alarm went off and lights flashed when I asked for ketchup for my hot dog. The indignity.
I’m posting this picture everywhere for all those ketchup naysayers.
Take that you Chicago snobs who refuse to carry ketchup on your hot dog stands!
Check it out National Hot Dog and Sausage council. You can stuff your rule that no one over 18 should have ketchup on a hot dog.
And phooey on the American Diabetes Association and Weight Watchers who consider ketchup as the “bad boy of condiments.”
Won’t Bob Schwarz, the Vienna Hot Dog senior VP and author of Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog, be surprised when I post this picture on his Facebook page?
I’m American and I’m proud to claim my right to have ketchup on my hot dog! And finally, I can show the world a hot dog who smothers himself in ketchup.
References
Andy Kryza, Ketchup Shame Is a Plague on Hot Dog Eaters Everywhere, July 20, 2018
Simon Kaufman, Why Is Chicago Against Ketchup On Hot Dogs?, Scripps News, September 18, 2022
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