Mandroid2.0 wrote:Does anyone know how to make the green relish? I can't find it anywhere out here.

I've already had to improvise to make something remotely akin to this:

...which I adore on everything from sausage to pasta to salads, and which California apparently has no love for (not even in the Italian deli/markets).

Despite the presence of sport peppers, I think I would give this a try on a Chicago dog; certainly in place of relish.

If what you say is true, I hope nobody in California has any intentions of serving Italian beef sandwiches.

Heh.

Once Ben and I move to our new place at the end of the month, my goals are as follows:

1) Obtain job.

2) Purchase crock pot.

3) Purchase grill.

4) Have parents send box filled with x-hot giardiniera, brats, and some toxic green relish.

5) Make delicious Italian beef sandwiches, brats, and hot dogs and have friends over.

*NOTE: NO TOFU PUPS ALLOWED.

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lemur68 wrote:

Other, like Cincinnati or some shit that nobody cares about

No love for Skyline Chili?

Queen City Cayenne at Jeni's is the closest I'm coming to that garbage. That reminds me, you gonna be in town the week of Thanksgiving?

Seeing my folks on the holiday proper, but I'll be around the first half of the week....

So I'm gathering the concept of the Chicago dog is to drown it in so much crap you forget it's a hot dog.

The thought doesn't appetize me, to be frank.

FRANK. HAH

lemur68 wrote:So I'm gathering the concept of the Chicago dog is to drown it in so much crap you forget it's a hot dog.

The thought doesn't appetize me, to be frank.

FRANK. HAH

It works.

djimbe wrote:A dog covered with some nondescript brown muck (no matter how toothsome it may be) is not the same visually...

Which seems like the perfect arguement for making the relish one of the most unnatural colors ever?

Hey, I ain't knocking it, as I sit here eating Cheerios, dreaming of a big frickin' Chicago Dog, but what culinary genius thought "well, antifreeze sure is an appetizing color!"

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helllla chicago hotdog man!

chilli sauce just ain't right!

DEFENSE DEFENSE!

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Make delicious Italian beef sandwiches, brats, and hot dogs and have friends over.

I have ordered and prepared the Portillo's Italian beefs and hot dogs.

Even in G.D. Idaho.

Why, I did this thing not three weeks ago.

It was boss.

scott wrote:Historically, I would eat a hotdog prepared in one of three ways...

Nothing on it but ketchup
or
Nothing but ketchup and cheese
or
Nothing but chili and cheese.

I would not eat a hotdog prepared in either of the ways you have listed. So I will vote "other"

Johnny 13 wrote:My jaw literally dropped. Literally like it actually did. Literally. Literally. OMG! You have only eaten hot dogs that were obviously meant to punish real hot dog lovers as they burn in hell for some of the most heinous crimes imaginable.

No one has ever been able to explain to me the various hot dog crimes (e.g., ketchup) that purportedly exist. You know why? Because they don't exist.

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scott, all of these fuckers can fuck off. They have no basis for their lame-o hot dog uppitiness, and they never will. Keep in mind that this criticism comes from people who turn their hot dogs into fake-o salads (a pickle slice? really?) and live in a city that outlawed street hot dog vendors decades ago. Screw them. Enjoy your cheesy ketchupped and chilified hot dogs, and feel free to punch these hot dog "purists" in the nuts at your earliest opportunity.

Please also keep in mind that people who defend the sanctity of the hot dog are taking a stand for a product that is made of ground pig lips and cow cunts as tightly squeezed into a cheap sleeve of sheep intestines.

Sounds like my prom!

O! These adulterated dogs! Give them an asterisk! I will always look at hot dogs from this era and think "I wonder if that was achieved with ketchup?"

Cheating swine.

Having lived in both Chicago & New York (Chicago for 23, New York for 7), I would have to say that New York beats Chicago. Chicagoans try the same culinary shit with pizza too - You make it bigger and "Drag it through the garden..."

If you specifically want to say "Coney Island vs. Hot Doug's" well of course Hot Doug's will win because Nathan's is a pile of dog shit on a dog shit boardwalk.

New York applies a simple method and it works just fine. And it's cheap.