Is this still America? Why no longer any love for ketchup?
by Frank Drebin (2019-02-16 17:52:39)

Was out at lunch today at a burger restaurant with a few neighbors. We all had fries with our burgers. When I asked if anyone else wanted ketchup for their fries, the response was a very resounding “NO!” One younger neighbor even added “do you even know what kind of sordid acts go on at a ketchup factory? I said that I never heard of one and asked him to elaborate. Before he could follow up with a response he got interrupted by the waitress and never got back to the response.

Anyone else noticing the growing lack of love for ketchup these days especially among millennials?




Non comment on Ketchup as edible condiment
by saintapollonia  (2019-02-17 18:08:29)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

It’s a rather effective brass and copper polisher.


A pretty powerful indictment on its suitability as condiment *
by 1NDGal  (2019-02-17 20:32:42)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Sha la la la la. Sha la la la la
by Father Nieuwland  (2019-02-17 14:04:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Sha la la la la


Snowman melting from the inside, Falcon stumbles to the
by 1NDGal  (2019-02-17 14:54:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

ground.

Fantastic song. Movie was eh.


I loved ketchup when I was a kid.
by daviehamsufferer97  (2019-02-17 12:25:56)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

As I've gotten older I've found that I don't really care for it as much. Probably the only thing I'll put ketchup on now is a burger, but even then that is not very often.


The smell of ketchup makes me nauseous. *
by Nitschke  (2019-02-17 09:38:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


It effects a change in your personality
by Ndwahoo  (2019-02-17 13:04:14)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

So that you make others likely to vomit?

That’s quite the reaction.


Underrated comment. *
by IrishJosh24  (2019-02-18 00:49:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


How are you with the smell of napalm? *
by Frank Drebin  (2019-02-17 10:02:53)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Exactly my thought! *
by nannywarth  (2019-02-17 11:14:35)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I love the smell of napalm in the morning. *
by dbldomer7375  (2019-02-17 14:37:34)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


My kids would eat packets of it with/without fries or
by Stonebreaker42  (2019-02-17 09:12:28)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

chicken tenders if I let them. A few times I made the mistake of not requesting it at the drive-thru (we’re classy). As the groans & laser stares began from the back seat, I’d regale them with tales of a simpler time when it was included with an order of fries by default. Dang millennials!


My kids have never really eaten it
by wcnitz  (2019-02-17 07:09:47)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

They are now 12 and 14. I haven’t had a bottle in my house in over a decade.

They like hot sauce, curry ketchup, frites sauce, deli mustard, etc. They are smart boys, because they know regular ketchup is shit.


It’s the only foodstuff we’ve found that our son won’t eat
by shawno3  (2019-02-17 11:10:53)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

He used to eschew pineapple as well (which was a head scratcher) but he now eats that, too. He’ll eat and enjoy eel, foie gras, rabbit...literally every meat, fish, and vegetable we’ve ever given him. But he won’t touch ketchup.


Following the leader *
by BacTien  (2019-02-17 08:17:27)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


When I was stationed on O'ahu, I worked with a guy
by TahoeDweller  (2019-02-16 22:03:34)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

from Ft Wayne, Indiana. He was a pretty good South East Asian languages specialist trained at DLI/Monterey. He told me when he was a teenager he had a job at the local Heinz plant nearby. There was another employee who chewed tobacco, according to the story, who would spit into the vat. Or so the story goes.


Sodium's the reason my wife frowns on ketchup and BBQ sauce. *
by G.K.Chesterton  (2019-02-16 21:39:14)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


We need a wall to keep that Mexican salsa out! *
by Dadknuknutesson  (2019-02-16 21:09:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Similarly, when Trump was all like "There will be a taco
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 23:13:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

truck on every corner!" I was very perplexed. I WANT a taco truck on every corner. Tacos are delicious. How is that a bad thing??


The younger folks have become a bunch of fancy pants....
by Marine Domer  (2019-02-16 21:07:24)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Eating is now more about what’s cool than what actually tastes good. Heinz ketchup rules. It’s not for everything, but life it lesser without it.


Yeah, that’s it
by ACross  (2019-02-16 23:21:42)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Ketchup tastes like Wass’s baloon knot and you all should hang your heads in shame.


You and I have very different perspectives on food....
by Marine Domer  (2019-02-16 23:38:09)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I enjoy what I enjoy. Food isn’t a status symbol for me. It’s not like I can’t afford to eat fancy stuff, or don’t enjoy different types of food. But I think a good cheeseburger and fries, with ketchup on both, is a delightful meal.

And I don’t know what Wass’s balloon knot tastes like.


I wouldn’t take much offense.
by smithwick  (2019-02-17 08:12:56)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Cross’ tastes in food are similar to his preferences in offensive schemes. Staid and stuck in the 80s.


I married into an Italian family
by jreednd  (2019-02-18 11:35:11)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

And trust me, it's not an 80's thing. Ketchup is the devil. Your food should taste better than something needing ketchup. There are older in-laws who would throttle me if they saw me use ketchup.

And you know, I almost never use ketchup anymore. Because the food is, truly, damn good and doesn't need it. When I used to cook for myself, different story.


Yeah, that’s it *
by ACross  (2019-02-17 09:20:50)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I love cheeseburgers
by ACross  (2019-02-17 00:08:10)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I don't pollute them with ketchup. I prefer them to be made with good beef.
Food has nothing to do with status symbols. That's not the idea behind refinement and good taste.


Made with horse meat, i.e. from the finest stallions? *
by 21TAS  (2019-02-17 15:34:51)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


100% agree. A burger made with high quality beef
by dulac89  (2019-02-17 12:16:53)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Cooked medium rare, with a good cheese and a thick slab of bacon, need never be polluted with condiments


Salsa Lizano is the king of all condiments
by bengalbout  (2019-02-16 20:22:52)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post



Seconded *
by Tommygee  (2019-02-17 01:13:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I love Ketchup!
by 21TAS  (2019-02-16 20:15:38)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Put it on hamburgers; hotdogs (despite Chicago's angst and disgust), along with mustard, of course, and some chopped onions, even better; scrambled eggs (with hot sauce); french fries (well, duh); every now and then mixed with A-1 sauce, steak, depending on the cut; and, let me think, what else .....

Never heard of any sordid acts at the Ketchup Factory, unless the tomatoes are getting too uppity with the onions, which would make the beets really really mad. And let's not even go near mentioning what the scallions are doing.


You probably enjoy the taste of ass as well *
by ACross  (2019-02-16 22:42:33)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Every post you now make, you'll remind me of Kenneth Pinyan,
by 21TAS  (2019-02-17 13:58:03)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

given your constant fixation on ass. Every single post you make.


Mr. Hands? *
by PWK2  (2019-02-17 14:45:33)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Exactly .... the penultimate assman. *
by 21TAS  (2019-02-17 16:04:22)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I'm glad i wasn't the last *
by ACross  (2019-02-17 20:49:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Really? You just sucker-punched yourself.
by 21TAS  (2019-02-17 21:42:28)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

That was far too easy.


I don't think you know what penultimate means *
by ACross  (2019-02-18 15:46:48)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Au contraire. I used it purposely, given its definition,
by 21TAS  (2019-02-18 20:00:39)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

and relevance to this particular thread, prompted by your sick, and frankly, really creepy posts.


B2 is keeping Heinz afloat. *
by Irish Tool  (2019-02-16 20:12:11)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I think I just kind of branched out over the years.
by Barney68  (2019-02-16 19:14:38)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

My memory says ketchup was important when I was a kid, especially on burgers. I ate a LOT of burgers and was astounded to find out later in life (probably about age 20 or so) that people put stuff other than ketchup, mustard, and pickle on them!

Turned out that variety has become the spice of condiments over the years. Ketchup is still for some burgers, and absolutely a must for meatloaf, but with a lot of other choices (so many forms of mustard, hot sauces by the dozen, mayo, aioli (yes, I've gone over to the dark side), fried onions and peppers, and so on it has lost a lot of my personal market share.

That said, I never did like ketchup on fries (but gravy can be good) or eggs (but there are some hot sauces that are perfect).


Aioli is just fancy mayo *
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 19:57:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Clearly, you have never had the good stuff. Mayo it ain't. *
by Barney68  (2019-02-17 12:20:03)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


No, it literally is
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-17 15:08:07)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

It uses the same fundamental technique and ingredients. Unless you are only eating Catalan style aioli, where no egg is used, what you are consuming is literally just fancy mayo, cuisine wise.


It has fallen into disfavor and we all know which
by BacTien  (2019-02-16 18:37:27)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

generation to blame. We are empty nesters and a bottle lasts quite a while since the kids became adults and moved on. My grandkids still like it on hot dogs and fries. I like it on fries, hash browns and once in a while on scrambled eggs. When I was a kid I ate it on every kind of egg except hard boiled.


When i was a child ketchup was a required condiment for
by so-it-goes  (2019-02-16 18:53:55)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

scrambled eggs, the only eggs I would eat. AS I have aged I still can not eat hard or soft boiled eggs. But, no longer "require" ketchup for my scrambled.

I do love ketchup, probably tied to my love a just about anything "tomato".

One recent find and I am hooked, is Sriracha ketchup. Local grocery store chains have not had it so I developed my own "blend" of ketchup and Sriracha mustard. Yummmmm.

Ketchup on burgers, fries, butnever on a hot dog, for me.


Siracha or salsa on scrambled eggs for me. No Ketchup. *
by domer79dad09  (2019-02-16 19:09:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


God gave us sriracha because we were eating eggs wrong *
by captaineclectic  (2019-02-16 19:58:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Yeah, but He didn't tell you to put it in coffee too
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 21:39:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

That is just weird.


Nothing ventured, nothing gained. *
by captaineclectic  (2019-02-16 21:40:09)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I like 78 Red. Had it at The Evil Czech.
by 93NationalChampions  (2019-02-16 18:07:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Can’t buy it down here. Cost me $32 for 3 bottles. 3 not no big bottles. It’s good.


Ketchup has always been an inferior condiment *
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 18:06:43)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Salsa is now the #1 condiment in America, do you know why? *
by DakotaDomer  (2019-02-16 19:30:50)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Because it goes bad and you have to replace it
by son of galway  (2019-02-16 23:42:38)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Whereas ketchup’s useful life is measurable in years.


“it will survive the apocalypse” is not a selling point *
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-17 15:09:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


I didn’t say it was
by son of galway  (2019-02-17 16:46:57)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I am just pointing out that the need to constantly replace fresh salsa has a lot to do with why it outsells ketchup.


Because it is fucking delicious?
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 19:55:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Unlike KETCHUP. Hey, why don't we mash up a bunch of tomatoes with vinegar and then add sugar? SOUNDS GREAT.


Salsa is for proles as well *
by ACross  (2019-02-16 22:43:58)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


But with salsa, it's pronounced
by KeoughCharles05  (2019-02-17 18:51:53)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Pro-lays.


Fra-jeee-laaay *
by 1NDGal  (2019-02-17 20:34:49)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Per Jim Gaffigan
by captaineclectic  (2019-02-16 19:57:24)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Salsa is Mexican ketchup, because very culture has a ketchup. British ketchup is vinegar. That’s their cuisine: it tastes better when you pour vinegar on it.


(I’m such a liar; as you know I’d pour straight vinegar on a lot of things.)


British Ketchup is Brown Sauce
by 330morrissey  (2019-02-17 08:13:36)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

The main brand is H1 sauce.


I bet you pour a lot of vinegar, all right *
by jt  (2019-02-16 23:21:49)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


What does it say about your national cuisine
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 19:58:11)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

when you have to pour vinegar on it to improve the flavor?


Lack of a WALL *
by captaineclectic  (2019-02-16 19:42:45)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Because people like to say "Salsa". *
by Penske_Material  (2019-02-16 19:36:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


That was set up for you *
by Father Nieuwland  (2019-02-16 20:43:04)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Spicey brown mustard or GTFO.
by EricCartman  (2019-02-16 19:27:02)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

That’s what NYC taught me.


And french fries should be eaten with mayo
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 19:56:19)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Otherwise you are just a heathen.


You misspelled gravy. *
by MobileIrish  (2019-02-16 21:12:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Gravy is acceptable as well
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 21:35:51)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Especially if is just poutine. Poutine is amazing.


I’ve considered moving to Canada just for the poutine. *
by MobileIrish  (2019-02-16 22:01:37)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Can't really get a good version outside of Quebec *
by Allumeuse  (2019-02-16 23:12:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Had some in Ottawa, was delicious...hoping to find a decent
by ndgenius  (2019-02-18 10:41:29)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

place in Hamilton, ON this weekend to get some.


[defriends Allumeuse] *
by ArasEra  (2019-02-16 20:35:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Dutch and Germans commit that atrocity *
by Frank Drebin  (2019-02-16 20:31:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


No German could ever commit an atrocity *
by captaineclectic  (2019-02-16 21:24:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Belgians, too. *
by EricCartman  (2019-02-16 20:48:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


We are at odds here.
by EricCartman  (2019-02-16 20:02:41)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

My dad banned Mayo from our house. He refers to it as “white death”. Therefore, I rarely eat anything with mayo (Rock shrimp at Nobu and white sauce from The Halal Guys are a noteable exception).


Then there's my wife who discovered she likes to dip
by BacTien  (2019-02-16 21:34:40)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

her fries in tartar sauce.