Since there has been much talk of ketchup and mustard lately, here is another question:
When adding ketchup to your fries do you create a pool of ketchup next to them and dip or do you cover the fries with ketchup (sometimes with an extra pool to the side of extra ketchup)?
Personally I hate when my fries already have ketchup on them. I like to control when and how they get heir ketchup so I will always pool. What say you?
Pool off to the side. Actually, I’m more likely to have the various condiments in separate cups - one of ketchup, one of mayo, one of BBQ sauce. That way I can vary the flavors bite by bite. Unless they are McDonald’s fries. Those get eaten straight, sans anything but their greasy, salty goodness.
Can we please start including options for “no, we don’t want ketchup near our food.”
I pool and dip. If you pour it over the pile, you end up with too much ketchup on the ones on top (including a few that get completely covered and which are thus messy to eat by hand), and none on the ones on the bottom. Plus, if you’re eating fast-food fries, which come in one of those pocket-shaped boxes, it’s a lot easier to find room for a ketchup pool on your sandwich wrapper than to make room for a pile of all the fries.
Despite what the poll says, I pool and dip
No option for “ramekin of ketchup on the side”?
Pooling is for people who want their condiments to get smeared all over the place.
If it’s plated like at most chain restaurants, I do a quick drizzle with the ketchup bottle. (which I was taught not to do as it makes your fingers messy to pick up beketchuped fries, but I solved that problem a long time ago by not making my ketchup drizzle so close there’s free space to pick up the fry.) If they’re fast food fries, I’ll get a cup of ketchup and dip but usually I just eat them plain.
I usually don’t put ketchup on my fries. But on the rare occasions where I feel like having ketchup, it’s a pool on the side so that I can better control how much I put on each one.
A pool to the side, the way God and science intended.
This for me too. And to be complete, there should be an option for those strange people who don’t eat fries.
Smother the things with ketchup and salt. Mmmmmmmmmmm! :o
I don’t eat my fries with catsup, but if I did I would put it to the side and dip them, the same way I prefer to eat nachos.
That’s a concept I never even contemplated. No fries? I suppose it’s possible.
I delicately drizzle the ketchup (from a squeeze bottle) until I have a lovely cross-hatch lace pattern. 
Side pool. I find drizzled fries repulsive for no justifiable reason. Resemblance to blood spatter, maybe.
One possibility is that a person has a potato allergy.
You dip nachos in ketchup? :eek:
Good fries just need some salt. Bad fries should get tossed.
I prefer just salt and pepper. But when I do have ketchup, I dip. Why would you do anyting else? Your hands are covered in grease from the burger as it is. Why cover them in sticky ketchup as well?
I do mine with mustard. It’s surprisingly good.
I eat my fries with vinegar and salt.