Apparently FrontBurner isn’t alone in having a slow day following the action-packed Arts Center/Texas-OU/Komen Race/State Fair weekend. The Plano Star-Courier wants you to know that Plano city leaders definitively prefer mustard on their corn dogs.
I can tolerate the taste of mustard, but prefer not to have it in my mouth. So I’ve always been a ketchup man. Does that give me away as a non-native Texan?
It’s not what the article is really about, but Malcolm Gladwell’s ketchup piece from the New Yorker in 2004 establishes firmly why the tomato-based condiment (at least in the form perfected by Heinz) is objectively superior to mustard.
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Jason, Jason, can’t we all just get along? Being a more ecumenical eater (read: omnivore), I can say that. I prefer both on my hot dogs. Try it sometime, my friend. Put the mustard along the sides, the ketchup on top. Oh, and don’t forget the dill relish. In fact, make it a double! Betcha can’t eat just one hot dog. And why should you? I’m salivacatin’ all over my keyboard. This is your fault, Jason.
Independent research has shown that ketchup is, indeed, the superior condiment to mustard EXCEPT on a Fletcher’s Corn Dog purchased DURING the State Fair of Texas AT the State Fair.