What are your thoughts on barbecue sauce? Does it belong on hamburgers, hot dogs or even steak?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This comes to us from text a couple of days ago.
Can you settle something for me and my partner? Barbecue sauce.
What is it used for? I say it's for chicken
and pork. He grew up having it on hot dogs, hamburgers,
and even steak. So when he's cooking, he puts it
on everything. If I don't remember to ask for it
to be removed, it ends up on all the food.

(00:21):
Do you think barbecue sauce has a place on steak?
Hot dogs and hamburgers.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, so this is a polarizing subject, but I'm a
barbecue sauce guy, so I will put it on anything.
So anything that's on the barbecue gets barbecue sauce. However,
I do now ask people because some people don't like it.
Right, so I used to always just without question, coat
my burgers in it after I season them and now

(00:47):
I'll make sure like, especially if you're having a big gathering,
don't do that anymore because I know people don't like it. Steak,
I know people look down upon it, don't, but I
will sometimes on my steak. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Amber.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I do not remember a time.
In my life where I purchased a bottle of Barbecue sauce.
I would never put it on anything. I just would

Speaker 1 (01:12):
never. Not even like on chicken?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, I would never

Speaker 1 (01:21):
on hot dogs. That is wild.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Wow. So to me it's like the ketchup of summer like.
It is! Great way of explaining it. It is the ketchup of summer, so it's awesome. Yes,
so for that reason I'm out.
I'm out. Chrissy?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I grew up with having barbecue sauce on hamburgers,
on hot dogs, on Smokies, on really well cooked steaks,
and I can't take it. I can't take it. It's
not for me. I can't even imagine. And so I
am much like this person.
And I think even my father-in-law is now starting to

(02:02):
like you ask people if they want it because he
would just go ahead and put it on everything and
now he's starting to realize that that is not how
people live.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
It might be an old school thing. I think it

Speaker 1 (02:15):
might be a generational thing.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So it's generational and gets passed
down, but there must be a big audience for it, right?
Because I feel like the industry keeps growing, like the
shelf is big, there's a lot of options. People cannot
fathom it on hot dogs on text. Well, I have
never heard of that until today. That is wild to me.
And then what do you do? You still put ketchup

(02:38):
and mustard on it.
All of the things. Oh, the more flavors, the better.
I wanna be confused. They can't even, you can't even
make the flavors out.
This

Speaker 1 (02:52):
text is awesome. My husband's with LTI always exploring flavors.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's what you're gonna be, you're exploring. I'm a flavor explorer.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, you are. That's what we're gonna call you now.
So I don't think we're any help to you, but you,
there's
Got to be a consent when someone's cooking. Yeah. Ask
for consent. Right? If you're cooking, you're the one that's asking,
is it OK if I put the barbecue sauce? Yes.
This is so wild. I like how people have interpreted

(03:21):
the barbecue sauce for themselves. This person loves putting barbecue
sauce and ketchup on their bun as a condiment, so
comes with squirt of. You've got winter ketchup and summer ketchup together
at a party. Oh my God. What a treat!