Physics/politics behind pressurized plastic ketchup bottle?

[blume357]

very long time ago my first year of college I sat down at a table one morning to eat my scrambled eggs and a guy from up North sat across from me with his plate of eggs, he then proceeded to put catsup on them and I thought I was going to lose what I had already eaten.... I grew up on a farm and hunting and fishing and dressing what you killed and such and thought I had seen gross things until that day......


What boggles my mind is with the new upside down bottles you still can't get the last bit out... when you are down to the last few tablespoons all you get is a dinky drip and a wet fart.

 

[markallen]

Yep ketchup on eggs. Chula sauce, and Tabasco work too. I used to watch my brother order two eggs sunny side up, with hasbrowns. He would chop the eggs, and mix the hasbrowns together, then add ketchup. YUCK.......till I tried by accident.
Damn that's good.

 

[toysoldier]

Ketchup goes on hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, hash browns, and macaroni & cheese.

 

[bogus bill]

About 55 years ago I had never had pizza. I was on a date and we had pizza for the first time. I asked the waitress for a bottle of ketchup. She refused me, said I wasn't going to ruin that pizza! I still once in awhile put ketchup on pizza when we have it at home.

 

[diffy40]

Ketchup goes on hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, hash browns, and macaroni & cheese.

I was with ya all the way up to the mac & cheese.

 

[bogus bill]

I never could stand mac and cheese or "Kraft dinner''. now put some greasey bits of burger and onion in it with ketchup and we are in business.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

"Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts ketchup on a hot dog!" . . . Harry Callahan

:wink: :wink: :wink:

 

[Rick Courtright]

"Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts ketchup on a hot dog!" . . . Harry Callahan

:wink: :wink: :wink:

Hi,

Thank you!

Rick C

 

[bogus bill]

I am nobody. I have been known to eat ketchup on plain bread with nothing else. --Until another guy told me what that looked like.

 

[Jeepnik]

"Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts ketchup on a hot dog!" . . . Harry Callahan

:wink: :wink: :wink:

Harry was a wimp. He carried "light specials" because it gave him better control in a gun that size. Geesh, it's only a .44 S&W magnum.

 

[caryc]

"Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts ketchup on a hot dog!" . . . Harry Callahan

:wink: :wink: :wink:

I came from the east coast where NOBODY put mustard on a hamburger. I remember how shocked we were when we first came out here and found mustard on most every hamburger.

Hot Dogs = mustard
Hamburgers = ketchup

 

[Conservative]

We're all dietary bigots in some form of fashion.

I had a British girlfriend who put mayonnaise on french fries. I was appalled.

So, of course, I had to try it. mmmmhhhhh, ok, but just barely...

I went on to find it's quite popular to put mayonnaise on french fries and is a common practice in the U.K. and Europe.

Now, take a great steak, put ketchup on it and once again you've sinned...

Let's face it ketchup is a sugar and tomato goo.

 

[Pierow]

Applying ketchup to my scrambled eggs this morning it hit me.
So it's always annoyed me that if I turn an almost empty plastic ketchup bottle with a flip top lid upside down to store in the frig door, unless I'm very quick next time to get it to the table, open and use it, that last of the ketchup blasts out under pressure from the bottle all over my fingers or plate.............. Don.

I would postulate the pressure in a mostly used ketchup container isn't due to change in temperature but rather the mostly empty space inside pressurized by the ketchup out-gassing. A full container has very little air inside into which gasses from the slowly deteriorating ketchup could pressurize. As the container becomes more empty there is more air for the ketchup to, in a sense "rot into" the available air thus exacerbating the effect.

Pierow

 

[375supermag]

Ketchup on eggs????
My God! What is wrong with people, ruining perfectly good scrambled eggs with ketchup???
Properly prepared scrambled eggs require nothing more than pepper, some sausage and wheat toast with copious amounts of hot tea to wash it down.
Ketchup belongs on french fries...and precious little else. Maybe on a fast food burger to disguise the taste to a somewhat edible point.

 

[caryc]

You may think I'm nuts but try it before you decide. Mustard on carrot sticks. :wink:

I'm not really a big fan of carrot sticks but they do taste better with mustard on them.

 

[Ka6otm]

French fries are best with tartar sauce.

 

[blume357]

I always feel a little twinge when I put a line of catsup on my hotdog because of good 'ol Dirty Harry's line.....

As for the mayonnaise on french fries..... that reminds me of Pulp Fiction...

still, mac and cheeze? come on, there has to be a limit.