# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/21 "2000-12-24T19:58:41Z")
My dad ate his eggs w/ketchup, but the idea never took hold with me. I usually prefer my eggs scrambled or over-easy with salt and pepper and some Tabasco, but sometimes I get a wild hair to make an omelette with sour cream, pepper jack cheese, crumbled tortilla chips, bell pepper and onion in the middle and finished with a dollop of fresh salsa on top. Damn, I’m hungry now… ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/22 "2000-12-24T20:11:38Z")
Every month when this question gets re-asked, I get re-nauseated. You people who put catsup on eggs are all mentally disturbed. Here’s to hoping that GW Bush’s first executive order is to require the mandatory sterilization of people who put catsup on eggs. ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/23 "2000-12-24T20:15:44Z")
Hubby uses A-1, and it sends the kids out of the room. I guess young people can smell vinegar more than adults. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/24 "2000-12-24T20:23:15Z")
I’ll have to agree with **magdalene**. Salsa on eggs is great. If no salsa available, then go to the tabasco sauce. But never ketchup. Never. ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/25 "2000-12-24T20:40:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Attrayant \* > \*\*Every month when this question gets re-asked, I get re-nauseated. You people who put catsup on eggs are all mentally disturbed. Here’s to hoping that GW Bush’s first executive order is to require the mandatory sterilization of people who put catsup on eggs. \*\* I am mentally disturbed. I’ve known that for years. And I’m already sterilized. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/26 "2000-12-24T21:54:51Z")
Another fervent vote for Tabasco; wonderful stuff, the condiment of the gods. Even the jalepeno variety is sublime, though admittedly the green looks a tad peculiar on eggs. Or salsa and grated cheese–w/ Tabasco sprinkled atop. My suggestion: try some steak sauce. It’s the first step away from the sweetness of ketchup. Then before you know it, you’ll find yourself craving, lusting for the ultimate: Tabasco. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/27 "2000-12-25T00:02:03Z")
If eating scrambled eggs, with toast, bacon, whatever, no, I do not eat them with ketchup. However, if I am having a scrambled egg sandwich, then ketchup is a must. Two slices of toast, 2 scrambled eggs, salt n pepper, and about 4 Tb of Heinz ketchup. Yum yum yum. ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/28 "2000-12-25T06:48:52Z")
Ketchup and scrambled eggs?? You are sick, sick people. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/29 "2000-12-25T06:53:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Ketchup and scrambled eggs?? You are sick, sick people. \*\* You needed weird food preference to figure that out? Grinning, Veb ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/30 "2000-12-25T07:17:46Z")
mmmmm ketchup on eggs is good stuff, but I also splash a little tabasco on 'em for a little kick. Grape jelly is good, too. The trick is to put it on when the eggs are really hot, so the jelly melts. It turns the eggs into a really gross looking purple and yellow soup. Yummy!!! ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/31 "2000-12-25T07:40:16Z")
ketchup+eggs=yummy salsa is much better, but ketchup and eggs bring me back to my childhookd. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/32 "2000-12-26T01:15:13Z")
Now tartar sauce on french fries, that’s some good eatin’. Hell, tartar sauce on anything. Mayhaps I’ll try it on some scrambled eggs. Nah, scrambled eggs are nasty. I’ll just make a tartar sauce omelette. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/33 "2000-12-26T05:08:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*And if you’re still in grade school, you shouldn’t be reading the Straight Dope! \*\* Well, dammit, now you tell me! Another vote for Tabasco. My mother likes ketchup on her scrambled eggs, but I prefer Tabasco. ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@Wanderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/34 "2000-12-26T05:08:46Z")
Since I can now only order the cholesterol-free kind of scrambled eggs, I’ll take any extra flavoring so they don’t have to compete with my sense that they aren’t “real”. It’s all in my head, I’m sure, but I always eat with my head attached. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DocDaneeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/35 "2000-12-27T00:30:17Z")
Catsup (or _ketchup_ as some uneducated, redneck heathens prefer) is a vile, witch’s brew concoction that has insured the inventor a special place in the deeper regions of hell. The only positive use of catsup is to cover the flavor of even less pleasant foods, such as a festering pile of rotting rat dung, which you are somehow forced to eat, since it completely overpowers the flavor of food it touches like a malignant virus. Even Cecil (sort of) agrees with me: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_095.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_095.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/36 "2000-12-27T03:10:32Z")
I’m always catching hell from people about ketchup on my eggs. I like bacon, egg & cheese sandwiches, and ketchup is just a natural. Also works with potatoes and eggs, with onions, mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![KitKhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KitKhat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KitKhat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/37 "2000-12-27T03:48:37Z")
Okay, this is my first post. Seems a safe enough subject to cut my little baby teeth on… But there’s one yummy sauce that I haven’t seen yet - BBQ sauce. Yes, on the scrambled eggs! If there’s no Tabasco, go for the BBQ. Try it before you burn me… ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/38 "2000-12-27T03:58:34Z")
Corn Beef Hash, thats all that goes with scrambled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/39 "2000-12-27T04:00:52Z")
Salsa. Preferably my late MIL’s homemade salsa. My wife uses ketchup, never understood that - too sweet. Ideally, on toast, smothered with dried beef gravy ala Jeff Smith. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Attrayant \* > \*\*Here’s to hoping that GW Bush’s first executive order is to require the mandatory sterilization of people who put catsup on eggs. \*\* Already had the Big Snip, but Dubya ain’t gettin near what’s left. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063/40 "2000-12-27T16:21:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JamesCarroll \* > \*\*mmmmm ketchup on eggs is good stuff, but I also splash a little tabasco on 'em for a little kick. Grape jelly is good, too. The trick is to put it on when the eggs are really hot, so the jelly melts. It turns the eggs into a really gross looking purple and yellow soup. Yummy!!! \*\* Please tell me you’re joking about the jelly. I think I’m gonna throw up. Rose [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrambled-eggs-with-ketchup-or-not/47063.md?page=3)