PrintI put ketchup on _____
How do you use this condiment...with fries, burgers, meatloaf, add to baked beans or other sauces? Any unusual uses or food combinations? What's your go-to brand? Buy those upside-down-bottles?
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49 Comments:
scrambled eggs.
especially loved this on a toasted and buttered plain bagel with some English- (or Danish-)style back bacon.
renzata at 9:42PM on 01/14/08
i shamelessly admit i eat ketchup with fries.
not fries with keychup, but ketchup with fries
yup, that's how much ketchup i normally uses on fries.
Aside from fries, i also love ketchup on scrambled egg, hot dogs, sandwiches, burgers....
can't think of any more right now
favorite brand: Del Monte
mochateri at 9:45PM on 01/14/08
Heinz and no other, ever!
Burgers, fries, meatloaf and meatloaf sandwiches. I might squirt some into a recipe, such as BBQ sauce, or Sloppy Joes. Hmmmm, that might be it
Often, I prefer vinegar on my fries. Guess that's my Canadian roots.
PerkyMac at 9:54PM on 01/14/08
and......
Cheesesteak sandwiches, Italian sausage sandwiches with peppers and onions.
Knew that couldn't be IT. Probably more.
PerkyMac at 9:55PM on 01/14/08
Heinz only, I'd rather not have ketchup at all than use any other brand. I put it on hot dogs, fried egg sandwiches and open-face sandwiches with melted cheese. I think that's about it, although I'm probably forgetting something...
brooke29 at 10:04PM on 01/14/08
June Taylor's ketchup is delicious!
Littlebluesiren at 11:24PM on 01/14/08
Almost nothing.
If my fries are getting too cold, I'll dip the last of them in ketchup. But technically, I like my fries super hot, fresh out of the fryer, and naked (with plenty of salt). Next option is buttermilk dressing or vinegar. Almost never ketchup.
If there's ketchup already on a burger, that's fine, I'll eat it. But I never add it myself. Meatloaf needs gravy, otherwise, naked.
Especially dislike it on anything involving "cured" meats (e.g., hot dogs, bologna, sausage, etc.). Cannot tolerate it on anything eggs. Shudder.
However, I do use it to make thousand island dressing. And I will add it to beans or whatnot if they just need *something* for oomph.
Guess I'm just not a big fan of ketchup. Much more of a mustard and mayo girl. That said, the only brand I buy or consume is Heinz.
LoCo at 1:07AM on 01/15/08
P.S., my former MIL used to put ketchup on almost everything. Literally. I'll never forget the first time I saw her put it on top of her spaghetti with meat sauce. Lots of it. Soon after, it was on tacos. I was speechless.
LoCo at 1:09AM on 01/15/08
Heinz.
On macaroni & cheese. Don't ask ... it's a family thing.
Other than that one, just the usual suspects .... burgers, fries, beans, meatloaf, cheese steaks. And hot dogs. My dad says hot dogs are an excuse to eat ketchup.
kjgibson at 4:18AM on 01/15/08
Heinz. That's it. Don't bother otherwise.
I've always piled the stuff on my mom's Velveeta-based mac-n-cheese, mixing it in before eating it. kjgibson, it's a family thing for us, too!
LunaPierCook at 5:06AM on 01/15/08
Has anyone attempted to make a homemade version of ketchup?
Mac& cheese? Never would have thought of that one:)
JEP at 5:41AM on 01/15/08
I have my ketchup picante with
lettuce,
raw carrot sticks,
cucumber sticks,
gherkins,
raw/boiled cauliflower,
stir-fry zucchini,
and basically any salad...
OK, I'm a ketchup addict who probably needs to join a KAA-Ketchup Addicts Anonymous group!
ozgetr at 6:20AM on 01/15/08
heinz, and i just bought one of those upside down bottles last weekend.
to me, diner omlettes, burgers and fries are a ketchup delivery system!
at home, i cover oven roasted potatoes with ketchup and creme fraiche. {or at least i do when i'm not dieting.}
cybercita at 8:05AM on 01/15/08
Ah plum fergot ... and nope, ah don't poot catchup ahn plums ...
Mary's brothers have gotten me into combining Heinz ketchup with horseradish in a 50/50 mixture for the dipping of chilled shrimp. They have to make multiple batches now when my kids are around.
LunaPierCook at 8:29AM on 01/15/08
i don't use it. Jamie Oliver has a recipe I'd love to try, for homemade ketchup that sounds fantastic.
Lilartist at 8:58AM on 01/15/08
I like ketchup on fries, but I don't need it. I do, however, NEED to have it (Heinz) on scrambled eggs. With hot sauce, too. I like it on hamburgers, too, but there are all sorts of other sauces you can make for those.
Junie at 9:02AM on 01/15/08
Fries or any fried potato product, onion rings, meatloaf and occasionally a burger but never, EVER on a hot dog or any other lunchmeat. Makes me want to hurl, fer shure. Also liberally used in homemade sloppy joes and baked beans
Heinz is my first choice, but Red Gold makes a darn good jalapeno ketchup that I'll use on fries sometimes. I have the whopping 64oz Heinz bottle taking up space in my fridge right now just in case the husband gets a hankering for sloppy joes again.
AuntJone at 10:09AM on 01/15/08
Ugh...my husband puts it on Pizza. He said it was a British thing (he always says this when I question a food habit of his). Then his bff, who is also Brit denied the ketchup/pizza thing and said he was just weird. I already knew that. But he will put it on anything.....he is a condiment junkie. Don't even get me started on the Coleman's mint sauce.
jcrisco at 10:09AM on 01/15/08
heinz organic is for me. i like it in a variety of asian type sauces and a on portuguese style chorizo sausages.
coolname at 10:16AM on 01/15/08
@jcrisco, now that you mention the pizza thing I do recall seeing this happening at pizza places in the UAE at the south end of the Persian Gulf. As it was Heinz on the tables and the food on the ship was so bad, we once paid extra to get a couple bottles to take back to the ship with us. :-)
LunaPierCook at 10:42AM on 01/15/08
French fries. Except for those sold at Checkers. Those are the only fries on the planet I can eat without ketchup. I used to drown my cheeseburgers in the stuff but now opt for a squirt of a tasty hot sauce.
I also add a little to my meatloaf mix before cooking and I squirt a decorative pattern on top of the meatloaf. I use it for home-made cocktail sauce for shrimp and make-believe krabmeat. I used to make a sweet BBQ sauce using ketchup but haven't in years!
chiff0nade at 11:23AM on 01/15/08
@lunapiercook, that actually might explain it as his father is from the middle east and his mother is british. Perhaps he just blamed it on the wrong side of the family? LOL!
jcrisco at 11:25AM on 01/15/08
Heinz for me. On fries, cheese omelets and burgers sometimes. Use it to make cocktail sauce with horseradish and lemon juice. Never on hot dogs!
Colorado Jim at 11:28AM on 01/15/08
my favorite ketchup is curry ketchup and i like it on fries alongside a nice helping of mayo.
ceforrester at 11:35AM on 01/15/08
they also put ketchup on pizza in mexico (or at least in guadalajara). i couldn't believe it when i ordered a delivery pie and it came with a handful of ketchup packets. it turns out that it's the exception that proves the "even when pizza is bad, it's pretty good" rule.
sloppy at 12:55PM on 01/15/08
I use ketchup to make homemade barbecue sauce...
After that, I'm a afrain I'm boring. Burgers, hot dogs (hot dog purists would be irked to know I love mayo AND ketchup on my dogs), fries, roasted potatoes.
I had a good friend who used to dip her STEAKS in ketchup. It was revolting. Luckily, she married a chef, who taught her the evils of her ways...
lo82070 at 1:05PM on 01/15/08
Ketchup (or CATSUP???) on steaks - heresy! But on cheesesteaks......divine. I can't even imagine ketchup or mayo on my very, very well done expanding & blistering just short of burned to a crisp hot dog. I don't even like yellow mustard, has to be spicy brown or no hot dog, thanks anyway. Personal taste makes no sense, I guess. Your questions are fun JEP!
FYI;
Word History: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that can take place in borrowing—both of words and substances. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kēchap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kēchap, like ketchup, was a sauce, but one without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. Sailors seem to have brought the sauce to Europe, where it was made with locally available ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some unknown point, when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was born. But it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup. All three spelling variants of this foreign borrowing remain current.
PerkyMac at 1:43PM on 01/15/08
Can't deal with ketchup on eggs or mac and cheese, but use it as a base for barbecue sauce and thousand-island dressing. I mix ketchup with tabasco sauce to dip fresh fries, and occasionally mix it with mustard to spread across the top of meatloaf before baking. Mixed with horseradish, it's a cocktail sauce. can't eat hashed brown or fried potatoes without ketchup. Am addicted to anything with a salty/vinegar taste.
hatlady at 1:47PM on 01/15/08
French Fries and I dip my grilled cheese it in - which sounds weird but is wonderfully delicious. Brand doesn't matter much - although typically I have either Heinz or Hunt's in the fridge.
krispychikin at 1:58PM on 01/15/08
I, too, have seen people do the ketchup/pizza thing. I am not sure that I could pin point a certain geographical area for it, since I have seen it ramdonyl in so many places, but it does appear that your husband is not alone.
Having said that, aside from the usual: hot dogs, hamburgers (I used salt and vinegar on fries), basically I just mix them in, along with Worchester sauce, in meatloaf or meatballs. That's pretty much it.
Traveller at 2:06PM on 01/15/08
The grilled cheese thing is actually awesome, I don't do it but when I (ahem, rarely) go to the Hot Dog on a Stick at the mall in my town, I get a cheddar cheese dog and and dip it in ketchup. It tastes exactly like a grilled cheese dipped in ketchup. But at home if I have grilled cheese, I have to have it with soup. Weird how the mind makes these associations...
lo82070 at 2:40PM on 01/15/08
Heinz, the one and only. The only thing I drown in ketchup. (NOT "catsup") is white-meat chicken and turkey. I've never had a chicken breast that didn't need it. Same with turkey.
BTW, Perky..will you do mustard and pickle relish next?
RichardCrystal at 3:06PM on 01/15/08
My copper pots. I use it instead of a commercial cleaner to remove tarnish.
I'll also put ketchup on my scrambled eggs every once in a while, but that's about the extent of it!
kitchentraveler at 3:06PM on 01/15/08
Heinz..I put it on everything! It creeps people out when I put it on my mashed potatoes..It tastes like french fries..sans the fried part. It got to the point where I had 7 different varieties of Heinz in my fridge (the colored ones have their own different textures and flavors). I had to stop eating it as much because I was getting ulcers from the acidity.
FoodieCutie at 3:22PM on 01/15/08
Kitchentraveler---on copper pots? Now that's creative:) I recall seeing a short YouTube about Heintz 57 uses. Brand-wise, it looks like Heintz is most SE's Ketchup-of-choice!
JEP at 4:44PM on 01/15/08
I use different brands.... I bake sweet potatoes an pour it on them !! Fried egg sandwichs with bacon an cheese or sausage any type turkey or pork or chicken.Fries as well an Amys garden burgers .
rabbitriddle at 4:47PM on 01/15/08
Fries are a given... but, I put ketchup on plain white rice. That's all I used to eat when I was back in Kindergarten.
I also put it on Puerto Rican Pasteles and Cuban Corn Tamales - I eat them now without the pork filling, of course.
And the must - is MayoKetchup, a mixture of Mayonnaise and Ketchup we make here in Puerto Rico to sauce just about anything fried... try it.
Madelyn.
KarmaFreeCooking
MadelynRodriguez at 5:10PM on 01/15/08
MayoKetchup sounds like Fry Sauce...
lo82070 at 5:14PM on 01/15/08
i used to only use heinz, but i've since converted to organic trader joes ketchup! soooo good.
the pizza and ketchup thing is an asian thing as well, in korea they used to put ketchup on their pizza, some places would put ketchup on the pizza and bake it like that actually really yummy somehow it worked, but also their ketchup is much sweeter than ours.
pretty much use ketchup on normal things, but i used to know someone who mixed ketchup with cottage cheese and eat it with crackers and/or lettuce leaves
sustarz at 1:29AM on 01/16/08
I dip potato chips in ketchup.
mommyme at 9:59AM on 01/16/08
I put ketchup on everyyyyything: fries. hamburgers. hot dogs. potato chips. hash browns. eggs sunny side up. scrambled eggs.
I used to put ketchup on turkey sandwiches but I've grown out of that awkward phase. I'm sure there's more but I'll leave it at that.
My cousin dips his pizza in ketchup. Weird?
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 6:10PM on 01/17/08
I used to put ketchup on my fish sticks. Been I long time since I've eaten fish sticks though. Definitely scrambled eggs too. Still do that.
planetneutral at 11:03PM on 01/18/08
Ketchup on chocolate cake! Honest, it's good!
CapeCodBob at 2:38AM on 01/20/08
CapeCodBob...that is the most unusual combination I have ever heard of:) How did you come to try it?
JEP at 6:59AM on 01/20/08
Heinz...and its on egg white sandwiches (not omelettes because I am a tabasco or sirachi fiend on those) and on my mother's macaroni and cheese. Its baked with cubes of white wisconsin brick...scandalous...
MsJones at 10:55AM on 01/20/08
No less authority than MFK Fisher, in With Bold Knife & Fork, contends that Mark Twain ate "catsup" on mashed potato!
She based this on her observation that in A Tramp Abroad, on a list of "American" foods Twain states he missed while on an extended European tour, he had written "Mashed Potatos" and "Catsup" on the same line, albeit seperated by a period.
srhcb at 11:01AM on 01/20/08
Tater tots.
Rookiecook at 7:08PM on 01/20/08
heinz! or blue menu president's choice.
on... hot dogs, fries, onion rings, hamburgers, grilled cheese, scrambled eggs, fried egg sandwiches.
lexophile at 10:30PM on 01/20/08
I put catsup (or is it ketchup??) on my eggs, bacon, ham, hashbrowns... Always on a burger or hot dog (or polish sausage). When I was a kid I made my own "pizza sauce" with catsup, garlic powder, and italian seasoning. I"d toast a couple pieces of bread, then spread on the sause and top with parm cheese and broil for a minute or so...it was a good snack!
I also LOVE catsup on fried spaghetti!
Maleficent_fan at 11:52PM on 01/20/08