Sometimes I dip my patty melt in catsup.
Well, it’s kind of a grilled cheese sandwich; only on rye and with a burger patty inside.
Blasphemy. It isn’t about the fact that tomato soup and ketchup are both derived from tomatoes, but that they taste very different. The bland yet acidic richness of Campbell’s (and ONLY Campbell’s) Tomato Soup is the perfect companion to a richly cheesy, buttery grilled cheese sandwich.
Save your ketchup for yer taters!
Grilled cheese and ketchup is like peanut buttter and jelly.
Yummy goodness.
I don’t eat much grilled cheese, but when I do – if it’s JUST grilled cheese, and not like GOOD cheese – then absolutely I will dip it in ketchup.
I like kethup on cold fried chicken.
I dip my GC in the ketchup. I’m also a foot fetishist, so my idea of gross may not be yours’.
Ketchup’s entire purpose for existing is to cover up the flavor of something you are going to eat but for whatever reason don’t want to taste (see, for example, institutional powdered scrambled eggs or my mom’s meatloaf). Ketchup does not taste like tomato soup so I’m not sure why there’d be any equivalence there.
So, since there is no such thing as a bad tasting grilled cheese sandwich there is no reason to ever dip one in ketchup so no I’ve never done that, never heard of it being done until this thread, and am choosing to ignore the people here who say they do it.
No ketchup for me, but I do like a tomato slice in my grilled cheese.
Grew up doin’ the dip. I never put ketchup on anything else, but that one has stuck with me. Grilled cheese with ketchup and pickles makes me six years old again.
Grilled cheese with fries on the side. Yes, I have dragged my sandwich through the leftover ketchup from the fries. Kinda like mopping up the gravy with some bread. You don’t specifically put the gravy on the bread to start with but no sense letting it sit on the plate and get washed down the drain.
For me, the ketchup “twang” does go well with the toasted buttery goodness of the GC.
It’s sure as heck not my thing, but my brother-in-law does it. Of course, he dips EVERYTHING in ketchup. He puts about 6 packets of ketchup on a burger, then gets a mound of ketchup to dip the whole burger in. Frankly, it’s rather revolting, but ketchup is his favorite food evidently.
Either ketchup or tomato soup is necessary for grilles cheese. Often both.
I have my French toast with ketchup too.
And, no, it’s not there to hide the taste.
I know what I’m having for lunch today!
Oh yes. Grilled cheese on whole-wheat bread with Kraft Singles in the middle, grilled to perfection, nice and crunchy on the outside with the bread still soft on the interior, melting cheese product in the middle, garnished with a couple of kosher dills and a nice big dollop of Heinz for dipping. The melty hot cheese is perfectly offset by the sweet-and-vinegar-y tang of the ketchup, still cold from the fridge, and the pickles provide the necessary flavour break. An ice-cold Diet Coke on the side, yes.
Heck, some people even use punctuation. It’s weird world.
would that I could make a topic without being mocked for style
Love it! 
Try it. Come to the dark side, Padawan.
Of course I dip grilled cheese in ketchup. So does everyone else I know who eats grilled cheese, actually. Perhaps it’s a prairie thing.
Aside, if you want to avoid being mocked, try using punctuation. Lack of it is not style, it’s laziness.
Dipping grilled cheese in tomato soup is perfectly acceptable, as is adding slices of tomato to the sandwich. Ketchup has no business in the equation.
Ketchup has the same relationship to tomatoes as candy corn does to corn.
Grilled cheese with tomato slices dipped in ketchup is my go-to drunk food. Preferably with some hot sauce sprinkled on top of the bread.
HAS to be a grilled cheese sammich made with Kraft singles and not white bread…but the type of whole wheat bread that isn’t that different from white bread. Definitely not the sprouted grain bread I usually eat (it’s lower in calories).
Many people use definite articles, as well. 