Burger King Grilled Dogs taste test

Burger King Grilled Dogs
Burger King Grilled Dogs

Calm down pet lovers, this is in America and I’m talking about HOT DOGS.  Still the thought of finding these on the menu at Burger King is pretty strange, but as of yesterday they are available in two different varieties.

A classic dog with ketchup, mustard, relish, and onions and also a chili cheese dog.  I ordered one of each variety and took them home for supper last night.  Each of them had a normal sort of hot dog bun, with  a wiener in the middle.  The wiener had a smokey grilled taste and it’s texture had a slightly chewy skin.  It was better than what I was expecting.

Burger King Grilled Dogs
Burger King Grilled Dogs

The classic dog had a sort of sweet taste due to the ketchup and relish.  I liked the onions on top and found myself wishing that they had also been added to the chili dog.

The chili dog was also pretty good, but I couldn’t taste or see any onions or mustard on it, which is how I like mine prepared.  The chili and cheese did taste good, and I think I’ll try one of these again in the future if I can get onions and mustard added.  I’m not ready to state that I like it more than a chili cheese hot dog from Hardee’s yet, until I’ve had a chance to try one prepared this way.  I’m glad that Burger King decided to add these to their menu, and grill them over flames.  I’ve never been a fan of dirty water dogs.

Chili, hold the beans

I don’t know when this became a personal preference of mine, but for many year’s I’ve always asked if a particular place’s chili had beans or not when deciding what I should order.  In general I like chili that has chunks of meat a lot more than I like chili that is all or mostly beans.

I’ve found no bean chili easily when I’ve been in Texas, but most of the time places serve chili with meat and beans.  I’ll go ahead and order it even if it has beans if it looks good.  My exception to this rule is for chili that’s place on top of a hot dog.  That chili should never have any beans in my opinion.

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Don’t get me wrong, I like beans a lot, just not in my chili.  At the grocery store I usually buy the Hormel No Beans Chili in the can.  The Terlingua Chili served at Chili’s doesn’t have beans in it, at least not that I recall.  I do add some hot sauce into my chili to raise the heat level up a bit.

Which hot sauces do I like?  I could do a run down in a future blog post but either Cholula or Tabasco works well in chili for me.  Colder weather is when I like chili, goulash, and soup even more than during warmer months.  I will add cheese or onions to the top of my chili depending my mood at the time or ordering.