# scrambled eggs - with ketchup or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063 "2000-12-24T04:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/1 "2000-12-24T04:14:31Z")
All my friends and I eat it with ketchup. It’s just the right way to do it. But when I went to camp (and it was around here too) I was the ONLY one. Everyone made fun of me! So - do you eat them with ketchup? or not? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/2 "2000-12-24T04:28:20Z")
Absolutely, with ketchup. They’re better that way. Saint Zero eats them with A-1 sauce. I can’t understand that one. _ewww!_ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/3 "2000-12-24T04:34:56Z")
Ketchup is disgusting on anything that doesn’t involve a potato. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/4 "2000-12-24T05:08:43Z")
What’s wrong with A-1? They taste bad with ketchup. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/5 "2000-12-24T06:57:24Z")
Not ketchup. Salsa. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/6 "2000-12-24T07:14:49Z")
Ick. I like ketchup on fried potatos and sometimes on meatloaf. However, I usually don’t use ketchup in my meatloaf, I use steak sauce (A1) instead. MMMMMmmmmmmMMMM! Try it! If you’re out of grade school, you shouldn’t be eating ketchup on your scrambled eggs. And if you’re still in grade school, you shouldn’t be reading the Straight Dope! ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/7 "2000-12-24T07:21:45Z")
[sub]FIRST, FORGIVE THE CRAPPY LISTING, I’M WORKING ON IT[/SUB] Please try this simple experiment. 1. Make [Scrambled Eggs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=779520#post779520) from my recipe thread. 2. Top them with a select group of flavorings: [list=A] [li]Salt and fresh ground pepper, only[/li] [li]Heinz Ketchup, only[/li] [li]Your favorite sauce, only[/li][/list] 3. Eat each of these different topping combinations on the following substrates:[list=A] [li]By themselves, on a plate[/li] [li]On properly buttered toast, only[/li] [li]With your favorite bun or biscuit, only[/li]I would think that you will quickly find that scrambled eggs on toast, or by themselves, demand certain restraints in their combined consumption. For me the combinations are few: 1. With salt and fresh ground pepper on buttered toast 2. With Heinz Ketchup by themselves, ocassionally Topped with snipped chives, separately with soy sauce or having them on buttered English muffins fit in there too. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/8 "2000-12-24T07:47:19Z")
Good. That leaves plenty of Tobasco for me! ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/9 "2000-12-24T08:18:33Z")
Ketchup goes with everything, not just boring ol’ potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/10 "2000-12-24T08:54:36Z")
Ice cream, cereal. Those are, I believe, the only two things in the universe I wouldn’t put ketchup on. Everything else is fair game. Ketchup = good. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/11 "2000-12-24T13:26:25Z")
Ick, ptooooie. I hate any combination of eggs and tomatoes, plus I don’t like ketchup. So perhaps I’m biased. LOTS of cheese, that’s the only way to eat scrambled eggs, for me. On toast. With alot of butter. I’m getting hungry, now… ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/12 "2000-12-24T14:47:13Z")
On toast and smoked salmon, topped with chives, black pepper and caviar. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/13 "2000-12-24T15:09:34Z")
scrambled eggs with ketchup is the only way to go when I actually feel like eating for a change:) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/14 "2000-12-24T15:48:14Z")
**Tabasco®** brand Louisiana pepper sauce. And salt and pepper. BTW: One of the McIlhennys (makers of Tabasco®) was in my friend’s film _Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras_ (called the “Worst film ever made”! :D) as a corrupt cop. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/15 "2000-12-24T16:43:29Z")
hp. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/16 "2000-12-24T17:33:02Z")
mmmmmm, hp! I like Chef’s sauce too but not on eggs. Eggs get cheese, mushrooms sauteed in a little butter and wine, and chives ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/17 "2000-12-24T18:08:21Z")
God no! Scrambled eggs are icky enough by themselves. They don’t need amything to help make them worse. Ketchup belongs on hamburgers and french fries, and that is it. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/18 "2000-12-24T18:33:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*Ick. I like ketchup on fried potatos and sometimes on meatloaf. However, I usually don’t use ketchup in my meatloaf, I use steak sauce (A1) instead. MMMMMmmmmmmMMMM! Try it! > > If you’re out of grade school, you shouldn’t be eating ketchup on your scrambled eggs. And if you’re still in grade school, you shouldn’t be reading the Straight Dope! \*\* I use teriyaki sauce on meatloaf. Yum! Robin ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/19 "2000-12-24T19:24:03Z")
maybe it’s a regional thing? I’m from New Jersey. (and i AM out of grade school. 🙂 If you think ketchup and eggs is bad, my brothers eat it with steak and turkey too. ewww. ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/20 "2000-12-24T19:37:20Z")
Ketchup on eggs: BAD Salsa on eggs: Good if with cheese and other stuff in a tortilla My father-in-law’s ketchup on french toast: Bleah! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063.md?page=2)