What are your feelings about ketchup?
It’s often abused, but it is a necessary condiment and ingredient.
It’s a must on hash browns. (Actually I buy chili sauce, which AFAICT is just ketchup with a nicer texture.)
I take silenus’s balanced position. It is often abused (for example, my cousin who was visiting from Poland a few weeks ago asked for a bottle of ketchup when we took him to an Italian wood-fired pizza place and doused his pizza in it before even taking a bite. Yipes. He seemed somewhat bemused that that was one thing Americans didn’t put ketchup on.) And I will not use it on any kind of sausage ever (well, except for the occasional currywurst.) However, used tastefully, it’s a nice blast of sweet, sour, and umami.
Generally I only use ketchup on hamburgers and hot dogs.
The only other time is in cooking, as I have a few recipes (such as sweet & sour chicken) that call for a spoonful or so of ketchup.
Ketchup on hamburgers and fries. Not much else.
Not too long ago, I found a surprisingly good recipe for a stir fry that called for gobs of ketchup. Ah, here it is. Manchurian chicken a la Mark Bittman. I make my current version slightly differently, spiked with a bit of oyster sauce, a healthy dose of fresh ginger, and crushed dried Asian peppers (like Thai or Chinese) rather than cayenne pepper. But I’ll be darned if it’s not super tasty, and I’m not a guy who generally likes sweet & sour stir fries.
I don’t consider myself a picky eater, but I just don’t care for ketchup on anything. Cont explain it.
For me it’s ketchup on hamburgers if the restaurant automatically serves them that way, and that’s about it. I can’t think of anything else, including fries, that I would willingly consume with that awful red stuff on it. Alas, the other people in my family willingly dump ketchup on just about anything.
Ketchup with hamburgers and fries, but I only dip both in it: and all over scrambled eggs. Also, on top of meat loaf in the final few minutes of cooking. That’s it.
Gotta have it for my meatloaf glaze as well. Fries, burgers, hashbrowns, eggs, as the base for my BBQ sauce…all sorts of uses.
I don’t love it on everything (scrambled eggs? No thanks) but I voted the “All for it” because I’m overall a big fan, and because I’ve noticed this weird sort of attitude towards ketchup that if you like it, you must be a childish, unsophisticated person. As if putting ketchup on ground up pork byproduct incased in intestine, or a pound of cow muscle means that you’re not worth knowing (for the record, I don’t put ketchup on steak - I prefer BBQ sauce).
I use it on fries (although I’ve been making fry sauce lately), in cocktail sauce and in meatloaf. It’s perfectly fine with some things. I don’t get why some people seem to want to lynch it. I’m not a fan of putting it on hot dogs, though, taste-wise or philosopically.
Overused in our culture, but has its uses for glazes and burgers. Drowning perfectly good food like fries in it is a travesty, IMO, and putting on hot dogs should be outlawed.
I only want to “lynch it” because it’s everywhere and so many people just expect that it’s going to be appreciated. Sure, it’s no big thing to ask for a burger “without ketchup” but you can’t imagine how many times they screw that up. Basically, I’m a live and let live king of guy. My wife enjoys ketchup on her fries. As long as there are enough uncontaminated so I can eat some too, I’ll tolerate her* unusual *preference.
You’ll get my ketchup when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
It has a place on top of many foods, although I’ll concede it is overused by many people. But it is an essential with fries. I’m also one of those who put it on my hot dogs, but not by itself. I’ll also put mustard and relish on with my ketchup. I love it on macaroni and cheese. And I will eat it on things like meat loaf and Salisbury steak.
I didn’t take your post as being extreme; it’s perfectly fine not to like something, even hate it, since it’s just a matter of personal taste. It’s the “ketchup is an abomination and must be eradicated” type of attitude I don’t get.
Funny; my wife’s the one that doesn’t want ketchup on her fries. 
Fries exist solely as a ketchup delivery system.
You sound like the kind of king I could easily live under. 
My test for whether a fry is truly great or not is whether it needs ketchup. That said, I will usually put some sort of condiment on the fry anyway (malt vinegar being my favorite), but never a crazy amount unless the fries are sub-par.