Question of the Week

If you could make a gourmet hot dog, what toppings would you put on it?

ERICA SALKIN

I'm a fan of the old-school Chicago hot dog, so we're talking yellow mustard, relish, onion and some kind of spicy pepper on top just for that little bit of sort of vinegary spicy bite at the end. When I was little growing up in the Midwest, that was the Saturday treat with my dad, just that fully loaded Chicago hot dog, and for me, nothing tops it.





MERRI LAYTON

One of the things that I would do would be to pick a sausage instead of a hot dog because it's got a little more complex flavor and with that, I would then put on good old Dijon mustard and leave it alone.








MACKENZIE QUINN

I majorly hate hot dogs, but if I didn't hate hot dogs, I would — and I'm gonna get real fancy here, so bear with me — I'm talking grilled mushrooms, sauteed onions, barbecue sauce. I'm making this like one of those fancy steaks, so it wasn't a hot dog in my head, it was instead something else.






GRACE UPPENDAHL

Unfortunately, I'm not the biggest hot dog fan; however, I have thought about this extensively because there are moments where I have to eat hot dogs. And, I don't know, there's something just so good about ketchup and mayo and if you put little chopped-up pickles on it, that's the most immaculate hot dog ever.






JAKHONGIR AYUPOV

My gourmet hot dog would probably be like steak, I'd say. I'd put marinated carrots, mustard, ketchup for sure and then maybe like A1 sauce.









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