What do you put tomato ketchup on?

topgun06 said:
I've got a friend who has this on everything. Everything! To an extent where its an obsession and can't eat anything without it. :eek:
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I know someone like this. She squeezes lines of it across pizza, regardless of topping. If it's not ketchup then it's salad cream. The amount of times I've made her delicious things and she's smothered it in sauce is more than annoying. Can't imagine how pro chefs feel when people ask for it in restaurants!
 
Hot dogs, Burgers, bought chips not home made, Beans on toast. On junk food I s'pose, It's just plain wrong to put it on decent food & an insult to whoever cooked it.

Ketchup on a Sunday dinner is like a fat chick with small boobs it's just Wrong.
 
Belmit said:
I know someone like this. She squeezes lines of it across pizza, regardless of topping. If it's not ketchup then it's salad cream. The amount of times I've made her delicious things and she's smothered it in sauce is more than annoying. Can't imagine how pro chefs feel when people ask for it in restaurants!
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Oh god I know! Coincidence that my friend is also a woman too...? :o

We went out to a restaurant in Edinburgh last year. And yes, she asked for ketchup. Then she went in a strop when they said they didn't have any!!
 
My GF is like this, make her lovely meals, steak, mince and dumplings and also shepherds pie among many others and she insists on heinz ketchup to put on all of them.

It has actually caused the odd argument form time to time :D
 
Bacon Sarnie, Square Sausage Sarnie, a bit to the side of chips and weirdly enough on chips and gravy or with a bit of beefy gravy and mash really works but shouldnt.
 
Burgers, Fish and Chips, Cooked breakfasts and occasionally with steak although I prefer a proper sauce such as peppercorn. I'm sure there are other times i use it that I can't recall right now.
 
Burgers, hotdogs or fish finger sandwiches, but that's pretty much it. Must be Heinz too, I hate the clone versions.
 
i have a mate who literally has a cupboard that consists of around 6 bottles of tomato sauce at all times. Every meal HAS to have it somewhere, its disgusting. its not just a little bit though either, he drowns what hes eating with it.

For me, its chips, burgers or anything along those lines, the usual really...
 
topgun06 said:
Its a bit like having a meal in a restaurant and then wanting to add salt and pepper.
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I can never understand why people get so snooty about this. The usual argument is that the chef has designed and prepared the dish perfectly seasoned. Well, yes he or she has - for him or her. Seasoning is a very individual thing and some people (like me) prefer their food seasoned more than others. This is especially relevant nowadays when most restaurants and cafes tend to under-season their food to suit the "Salt is evil" brigade. I'm not going to pay £100 for a meal and not enjoy it because it isn't seasoned to my satisfaction, I'm going to add whatever seasoning I see fit to the food I've paid for - it is, after all, my food and if the chef isn't happy, tough :p
 
Plus, salt and pepper are likely to have been used by the chef anyway because they're pretty standard for seasoning. By asking for ketchup for your seafood risotto it's not because it already has ketchup in and you don't think there's enough of it!
 
Belmit said:
Plus, salt and pepper are likely to have been used by the chef anyway because they're pretty standard for seasoning. By asking for ketchup for your seafood risotto it's not because it already has ketchup in and you don't think there's enough of it!
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I was actually thinking the same as I was typing the post. Adding salt and pepper is only altering the seasoning using the same ingredients the chef has already used. Adding ketchup is changing the dish dramatically. Every good restaurant I've been to has had salt and pepper on the table. None of them has had ketchup on the table.
 
mccarf said:
I'm the sort of person who slabs it on everything :D. Though when I eat nicer stuff like steak I only dab a little bit on just to make it less dry/easier to chew
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You're eating the wrong steaks ;)

Re. adding salt and pepper in restaurants - it's only wrong if you add it before tasting!
 
R.P.L said:
You're eating the wrong steaks ;)

Re. adding salt and pepper in restaurants - it's only wrong if you add it before tasting!
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Agreed - on both points.

If your steaks are dry and/or difficult to chew you either have the wrong steak or you're cooking it wrong :p

As for the second point, 90% of the time I'm going to have to add salt to my food (as mentioned before, I like my food well seasoned) but I always taste it first as occasionally, I think it's just fine the way it is. Adding seasoning before tasting is ignorant.

One thing I didn't mention before about the ketchup. I work on oil rigs and there are quite a few guys on the rigs who smother absolutely everything in ketchup (and I mean everything - I've even seen guys put ketchup in soup :eek:). The food on a lot of rigs isn't all that good but the rig I'm working on at the moment is actually pretty good. It makes me sad to see guys immediately reach for the ketchup bottle before they've even tasted the food and squirt a huge puddle of the stuff on their plate. It's quite sad to see someone eating a delicately spiced piece of lamb smothered with ketchup at a 1:1 ratio.

I've noticed that, whilst this behaviour is noticeable with all nationalities, the worst offenders are Americans and English.
 
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