It's Opening Day! What do you put on your hot dog?

Happy Opening Day, baseball fans! #LGM

What better way to celebrate the occasion than eating a hot dog.

What do you like to put on yours?

As someone once said, the hot dog costs $9, but the condiments are free. 

It's gotta have mustard, preferably spicy brown.  Definitely no ketchup.  I'm usually too impatient to do anything else, but if I remember and it's right in front of me any combination of onions, pickle relish, and sauerkraut are welcome additions.

Or...  Make it a coney with some Skyline or Dixie chili, onions, and some cheese.

Mustard, onion, relish

Go White Sox.

I just hit the easy button and buy freshly made salsa (chopped tomato, onion, & cilantro) from the supermarket, mix in hot sauce and go to town (see also easy button guacamole except I add freshly squeezed lime juice to that).

Datsun310Guy said:

Mustard, onion, relish

This part.  Occasionally, a slice of American cheese.  Going all out, a little shredded cheddar and chili.

Detroit-style coney or GTFO. 

Where am I? Because that matters. 

Assuming we can do it right... tomato, pickle spear, neon-green relish, sport peppers, diced onion, mustard, celery salt, poppy seed bun. If we're outside of Chicago, and since that can be a PITA, and many places fall short on celery salt and sport peppers... Grilled onion and mustard. 

If we're in Milwaukee, Bratwurst. 

Cheese only belongs on a hotdog if you're having a chili-cheese dog, or you're making a francheesie. Otherwise I'll have my dairy via a milkshake while enjoying a hotdog. 

Whatever's handy. Most of the time, I'm eating them because there aren't many other options available. Whatever sauce sounds good at the moment. My trinidadian ketchup*, BBQ, sweet Thai chili, bang bang, French dressing. 

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If I'm planning a hot dog, celery salt, diced raw Vidalia onion, melted cheese, on a pretzel bun. Or wrapped in bacon, tossed in the fryer, and eaten straight. More often than not though, if I'm "planning" a hot dog, I'll just have kielbasa or local flavored sausages. 

My preferred coney is mustard, onions, chili, and shredded cheese.

About once every 4-6 months is often enough for floor sweepings in a tube though.

You spelled "Bratwurst" wrong--I'm from Milwaukee. 

Ketchup, mustard, raw onions, then watch hockey instead.

Either chili and cheese or saurkraut.

In reply to FSP_ZX2 :

If we're talking brats, then it is a hint of brown mustard, a hint of relish, and a few chopped onions.  And the relish can be skipped entirely.

If Michigan Sauce is not available, gotta be mustard  & onions.

What do I put on my hot dog? Nothing, if I'm holding one it means I'm looking for a way to trade it for something better. Hot dogs are just bratwurst that haven't ripened yet, and therefore aren't suitable for human consumption. 

Datsun310Guy said:

Mustard, onion, relish

Go White Sox.

Mustard, onions. Nuclear Green relish, celery salt, and sport peppers. A proper Chicago dog.

brown mustard and chopped onions or  chili  and chopped onions  ,

 I will hope for anything but white bread buns  but that seems to be the norm , I would pick Rye bread over plain white buns.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to hot dogs, and don't want all that extra junk on them - I don't want to have to dislocate my jaw to be able to take a bite.  I use just a little bit of mustard and I'm good.

Duke said:

In reply to FSP_ZX2 :

If we're talking brats, then it is a hint of brown mustard, a hint of relish, and a few chopped onions.  And the relish can be skipped entirely.

 

Sauerkraut--nothing else.  Or if not available, onions with mustard.  

stuart in mn said:

I'm a minimalist when it comes to hot dogs, and don't want all that extra junk on them .

Everything about Chicago tries too hard, including the hot dogs.  It's a thing with them.

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Tom Suddard said:

What do I put on my hot dog? Nothing, if I'm holding one it means I'm looking for a way to trade it for something better.

But look on the bright side...they're also really, really bad for you:

~87% pure fat.

Ketchup (and it had better be Heinz) and sweet relish. And I'm with Shawn, give me the Bruins.

Bratwurst get's sauerkraut and mustard.
Polish sausage gets grilled onions and peppers and mustard. 

But my all-time favorite is the Coney Island in Tusla. Coney's, steamed bun, mustard, chili, cheese, onions. But they don't have just shredded cheese, it's almost ground or like a very fine dice so by the time you get your drink and sit down, the cheese has melted in to the chili. Also, top with cayenne pepper and jalapeno vinegar. 

Now I want to drive to Tulsa. 

Cornbread.