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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – When the weather gets cold, one of the best ways to warm up is with a warm bowl of soup or chili. Which leads to the question, what is the difference between chili in a bowl and the topping for a hotdog?
There’s a bit of a discrepancy as to what makes chili for a hotdog different from the regular chili you eat from a bowl.
According to cooking blog, The Country Cook, hotdog chili is thicker than regular chili and uses tomato paste. The blogger also defines hot dog sauce as just a little thinner than hot dog chili. Another cooking blog, Gonna Want Seconds, however, defines hot dog chili as slightly thinner than regular chili. The blogger also calls hot dog chili “slightly sweeter,” pointing out it also does not include beans as an ingredient.
There are also many people in the Appalachian region who don’t call the topping “chili,” but instead, say “hotdog sauce.”
We want to know what our viewers think, so we’re asking for your opinion one of the Mountain State’s age old questions. Is it hotdog chili or hotdog sauce?
Click below to cast your vote! We’ll share the results of this poll on Thursday, Feb. 1. While we wait for those results to come in, take a look at the results of our last West Virginia foodie poll: Is a pepperoni roll a sandwich?
