What’s wrong with Ketchup???

[el caminero]

Only way I can choke down eggs. Cook em to death and cover in ketchup or hot sauce.

Did I mention that I hate eggs?

I LIKE eggs, and still they get ketsap'd

 

[el caminero]

I'm with ya but for the butter. There will be some softened goodness on my countertop.

Hard to make a PB sandy with hard butter.

We used to leave butter on top the microwave, but that was when more of us used it up faster.

 

[el caminero]

I certainly do. I won’t be going head to head with Joey Chestnut, but I can hold my own.

They come in packages of 4 or 5 for a reason!

 

[Chief 101]

Ketchup is made in a factory....factories are fine for making paint but for me not my food!

 

[Yaworski]

Ketchup is made in a factory....factories are fine for making paint but for me not my food!

So? No sausage? Canned goods? Pasta?

 

[s4s4u]

Ketchup is made in a factory....factories are fine for making paint but for me not my food!

Ketchup is rather easy to DIY.

 

[sceva]

Not a darn thing wrong with ketchup I will admit it; I use Ketchup on burgers, hot doge, scrambled eggs and with french fries. I prefer it over Mustard; Except with bologna, bologna is best with yellow mustard.

 

[Richard76]

Ever try it on mac and cheese? Got my kids hooked on it too the point when they were little and ordered mac and cheese in a restaurant, they ordered a bottle of ketchup also. I still have it about half a dozen times a year. Put some on half the bowl and stir a little, Not too much! That way you can have a bite of plain mac and cheese, a bite with a little zing, and then a bite of sweetened tomatoey goodness.
Funny thing is I really do not care for tomato juice.

I kinda do the same but with a mild hot sauce like Texas Pete's or Cholula

 

[wheelgun1958]

My

I do have to say the first time I saw someone put some on scrambled eggs I got a little nauseous.
I had heard a rumor that Yankees liked to do this but could not even fathom that it could be true....

My wife, a Yankee, puts ketchup on her eggs. Disgusting. Frank's Red Hot for me.

 

[s4s4u]

My

My wife, a Yankee, puts ketchup on her eggs. Disgusting. Frank's Red Hot for me.

I'm a Tabasco guy, but yea, no ketchup on eggs.....

 

[Chief 101]

So? No sausage? Canned goods? Pasta?

That's about right...almost no industrial foods in this household except emergency supplies....I can most of what I want in cans. I make sausage from mostly wild game. Pasta, sometimes when I go to my sister's house. It's tough being family farm raised...I just eat foood that I recognize...

 

[el caminero]

Ketchup is made in a factory....factories are fine for making paint but for me not my food!

Sugar and salt are factory operations as well as bread

 

[mirglip]

Ketchup is rather easy to DIY.

I have made my own Ketchup from scratch a few times. Main ingredient is tomato paste. I just pull up some "homemade ketchup" recipes on the internet and leave out the sugar. Without sugar, Ketchup tastes like ketchup did 50 years ago.
Like everything else, food processors incrementally added sugar to just about everything.
When I was a kid back in the fifties, peanut butter didn't have sugar in it. Nowadays I can't find peanut butter that doesn't contain sugar.... so I just don't eat it.
No wonder everyone is so fat these days. Sugar screws up your metabolism.

 

[JAYDAWG]

I'm not sure what conclusion can be drawn from this.............
But, the most commented on thread on the RUGER forum this week is grown men arguing about ketchup

Sometimes you guys scare me

 

[el caminero]

I have made my own Ketchup from scratch a few times. Main ingredient is tomato paste. I just pull up some "homemade ketchup" recipes on the internet and leave out the sugar. Without sugar, Ketchup tastes like ketchup did 50 years ago.
Like everything else, food processors incrementally added sugar to just about everything.
When I was a kid back in the fifties, peanut butter didn't have sugar in it. Nowadays I can't find peanut butter that doesn't contain sugar.... so I just don't eat it.
No wonder everyone is so fat these days. Sugar screws up your metabolism.

Hard to find peanutbutter with just peanut oil, the vast majority have soy or rapeseed ("canola") oil.

 

[protoolman]

Ever try it on mac and cheese? Got my kids hooked on it too the point when they were little and ordered mac and cheese in a restaurant, they ordered a bottle of ketchup also. I still have it about half a dozen times a year. Put some on half the bowl and stir a little, Not too much! That way you can have a bite of plain mac and cheese, a bite with a little zing, and then a bite of sweetened tomatoey goodness.
Funny thing is I really do not care for tomato juice.

That about the only thing I like it on. 2 generation s eat it on Mac &cheese here.

 

[thinckley]

Ketchup or Catsup, however you want to spell it is an abomination and an insult to tomatoes. And @el caminero Fry Sauce is best made with BBQ sauce.

 

[Mike J]

I've eaten Ketchup all my life. Lately it seems to just be too sweet. I prefer the no sugar added or "old fashioned" ketchup. I usually eat it on hamburgers, hotdogs, fries, etc. I've never eaten it on eggs or mac and cheese. Sometimes I use it, sometimes I don't. It just depends on my mood that day. Ya know though, I'm the guy that occasionally dips fish sticks in Heinz 57 & dips pizza in ranch dressing so what do I know.

 

[CCoburn]

"You don't put ketchup on a hot dog."

– Dirty Harry

 

[Chief 101]

Sugar and salt are factory operations as well as bread

not my bread, the flour is, although it is only wheat....what sugar and the salt is evaporated sea water...c'mon keep trying.

 

[Yaworski]

what sugar

Mechanically processed sugar cane. Processed in a factory.

and the salt is evaporated sea water...c'mon keep trying.

Salt is dug up in a mine, ground up, washed, dried, and then ground up some more in a factory.

 

[s4s4u]

Salt is dug up in a mine, ground up, washed, dried, and then ground up some more in a factory.

Ever heard of "sea salt"

 

[Chief 101]

Mechanically processed sugar cane. Processed in a factory.



Salt is dug up in a mine, ground up, washed, dried, and then ground up some more in a factory.

No No, that is the salt you like, not what i get.

 

[eveled]

We should count our blessings. There was a time when a found bottle of ketchup was turned into soup by adding it to hot water and that was the whole meal

Even if it wasn’t used as the entire meal during lean times ketchup was used to make terrible meals more palatable.

We may return to those times if we aren’t careful.

 

[Yaworski]

No No, that is the salt you like, not what i get.

Unless you're collecting it yourself, it's being packaged in a factory.

Sounds like a rather sad existence. Never having a Snickers or a Klondike. Scraping rocks to get salt. Spending all your time hunting and gathering. Grinding your grain into flour. No free time to do things like participate in internet fora.

 

[GasGuzzler]

We don't keep mustard or butter in the fridge.

I have never heard of gravy on meatloaf.

 

[Chief 101]

Unless you're collecting it yourself, it's being packaged in a factory.

Sounds like a rather sad existence. Never having a Snickers or a Klondike. Scraping rocks to get salt. Spending all your time hunting and gathering. Grinding your grain into flour. No free time to do things like participate in internet fora.

somehow you mistake packaging one ingredient for manufacturing using multiple ingredients...and why would you even want to try and troll me? Your trolling will get a response but that's about it.

 

[Yaworski]

somehow you mistake packaging one ingredient for manufacturing using multiple ingredients

Not just packaging, processing. Processing is done in a factory. Heck, packaging is done in a factory and you asserted that you eat nothing that comes from a factory.

A sad existence. No pasta.

 

[Chief 101]

You musts have an issue with old family farmers or maybe non city folks....thems of us that know what real food is....

 

[bedfordboy]

Okay I’m gonna try to get this back on track a bit
Does anyone have a good homemade from scratch recipe for ketchup?
I tried to make some one time and by the time I cooked it down so that it had any thickness to it the stuff was like battery acid Thanks!!!