Did anyone else find the line where Harry says "Nobody, but nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!" pretty odd? I mean, the moment I heard it, my Dad and I sort of looked at each other, confused. Was it a faux pas to have ketchup on a hot dog in California in the early 80s?
shareIt was more to do with the imagery of eating a hot dog smothered in tomato sauce while watching over the corpse of a man whose own....er...."hot dog" was smothered in blood. What was left of it.
shareYes. That dead guys balls were such a mess how could anybody eat a hot dog with ketchup after seeing that? That crazy woman did not spare him any pain when she killed him. What a cold lady!
shareOld post, but it's not that at all. SOme people are very religious about mustard vs. ketchup.
shareThere is also the phallic connotation. Nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog.
sharePretty ironic from Callahan, who ten years earlier had no problem with having a good hamburger (unlike his then-partner) after viewing the results of a gangland shooting!
shareLol, yeah.
I also put ketchup on a hotdog, tastes good. but this movie is full of phallus references from the hot dog gymmic to the unicorn horn at the end.
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I think he was simply referring to how weird and disgusting it is to put ketchup on a hot dog. Mustard is the appropriate condiment.
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ketchup on a hot dog is blehhhh. you need some good stout mustard for the ultimate taste, imo. different strokes...
What bothers me is that, no one and I mean no one aver puts ketchup on a hot dog........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ at 3:00 PM.
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Well, having managed a mom and pop pizzeria I'm afraid I must interject that people ordering ketchup as one of their toppings on a hot dog is quite common. Probably 3 out of 5 orders were like that.
shareMustard the appropriate condiment for a hot dog?
Who the F says?
That is SO stupid!!!
True but, this poor guy had just got his balls blown off by that beautiful but cold blooded woman. The sight of the victims corpse gripping what is left of any mans most sensitive area was too much even for Callahan. That woman makes Harry look soft. Dirty Harry was never this dirty.
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I must admit that I'm a bit partial for a bit of ketchup on my hot dogs.
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Maybe not California but in Chicago it is a sin to put ketchup on a hotdog. All dogs ordered in the Chicago area come without it. Everyone can look for deeper meaning but maybe one of the writers was from Chicago or had spent a lot of time there
shareAnyone over 18 and not a woman should put mustard on their hotdogs.
Dirty Harry will never view you as a man otherwise.
Can you dig it?
Mustard and pickle relish are the only things on should ever put on a hot dog. Period.
shareWhy the F?
If you do not like hot dogs and want to taste the mustard... JUST DRINK THE MUSTARD ALONE!
Otherwise you will not get the taste of the beef.
I generally put both on mine, but never only ketchup. Sometimes just mustard, and nothing better than Frenches' belongs on a hot dog.
But really, it amuses me how people have attached rules to eating such a fudamentally cheap and disgusting food - you can dress up streetmeat any way you want, but you're just trying to polish a turd. I say that as somebody that likes the occasional dirty water dog (although I boil mine in OE800), but I will put bleu chesse dressing on the thing if I damned well please.
Just as James Bond is snobbish about having his martinis shaken, not stirred, Harry has similar views about ketchup on hot dogs1
shareFrankfurters( hot dogs) are not beef, they are pork.
All of a pig is used, the frankfurters are made from the pig's lips and *beep*
Didn't you know that?
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Up here in Vancouver, pretty much any and every condiment in existence may get put on a hotdog. Me, I use margarine as a base, then catsup (for over thirty years, since childhood), with mustard mixed in (only beginning recently, though -- needed time to adjust to the flavour, as I'm a supertaster), and relish added after the wiener. I have to concur with Ms. Spencer's punishment of her "victim," however. I developed a strong stomach early in life (I have synesthesia between my senses of taste and smell, hence I'm also a supersmeller), so flavour and scent are higher priorities than imagery.
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Ketchup, mustard and onions are the only things that should ever go on a hot dog, period.
shareTo me, the only condiment that goes well with a hot dog is mustard. saurekraut is exceptional ocassionally.
shareIt's disgusting no matter who does it and where. Two choices with a hot dog: mustard or nothing.
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Haha, I was thinking the same thing felt bad because I always put ketchup and mustard on my hot dog so kinda sad that Harry might make fun of me!