# The ketchup poll
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068 "2011-09-03T16:15:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/21 "2011-09-03T22:14:20Z")
I like to add a little Tabasco to my ketchup and stir it in with the first fry.
---
### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/22 "2011-09-03T23:15:21Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
>
> 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.
Sure I can, considering I know exactly how many times they screw up when I ask for a burger “with just catsup” and wind up with pickles or lettuce or something on it.
---
### Author:  [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/23 "2011-09-03T23:17:32Z")
man, I came in here thinking this was a poll about brands of ketchup.
I wanted to mention Highway ketchup. My mother bought it because it was cheap, and we joked that they made the ketchup by putting the tomatoes on the highway and letting the trucks run over them!
Occasionally I like ketchup with my fries, but I like to mix ketchup with ground beef to make sloppy joes.
---
### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/24 "2011-09-03T23:24:15Z")
When it comes to brands, Hunt’s wins most blind taste tests.
---
### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/25 "2011-09-04T00:23:08Z")
I’m for it for obvious but limited uses, with one proviso: if it isn’t Heinz it’s a food crime. The rest are pretenders.
---
### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/26 "2011-09-04T01:01:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
>
> What are your feelings about ketchup?
Note well. Your poll is an epic fail. It wasn’t specific enough about your feelings. Not concise. Useless.
---
### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/27 "2011-09-04T01:03:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
>
> 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.
Do you also dump it into your mashed potatoes, potato salad and on top of your baked potatoes?
---
### Author:  [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/28 "2011-09-04T01:06:46Z")
I like ketchup with, say, Cajun fries because it tempers the spiciness. If it’s just regular fries, then I’d like something to spice them up (like Sriracha in the ketchup).
I used to always put ketchup on my burger, but lately I have just been enjoying either A-1 or BBQ sauce on burgers more.
Ketchup has a time and place but I probably use it far less than average.
---
### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/29 "2011-09-04T01:26:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
>
> Do you also dump it into your mashed potatoes, potato salad and on top of your baked potatoes?
No. I’m not a Philistine. 😉 But I’ll happily eat it on fried potato slices. I used to put it on mashed potatoes when I was a kid, but I grew out of it.
---
### Author:  [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/30 "2011-09-04T01:37:44Z")
Why do people get their panties in knots over what other people eat? Whether I like mustard, ketchup, or chocolate sauce and marshmallow cream on my hot dog is nobody’s damn business but mine. Other than a touch of yellow mustard on a fast food burger or in chicken/egg/potato salad, I find mustard revolting, sometimes I gag a little if I catch a whiff of brown mustard while making someone a sandwich, but I don’t go around impugning the intelligence of everybody who likes it.
---
### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/31 "2011-09-04T01:44:13Z")
> [@Catfood\_Purrito](#):
>
> Why do people get their panties in knots over what other people eat? Whether I like mustard, ketchup, or chocolate sauce and marshmallow cream on my hot dog is nobody’s damn business but mine. Other than a touch of yellow mustard on a fast food burger or in chicken/egg/potato salad, I find mustard revolting, sometimes I gag a little if I catch a whiff of brown mustard while making someone a sandwich, but I don’t go around impugning the intelligence of everybody who likes it.
Well, to pick apart your reply. You like yellow mustard on a burger. Not good. Yellow mustard is bland.
---
### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/32 "2011-09-04T01:57:27Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
>
> Not too long ago, I found a surprisingly good recipe for a stir fry that called for gobs of ketchup.
Ketchup is the principle ingredient for cooking pad thai noodles (which are stir fried).
Other than that, I have almost no use for it.
---
### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/33 "2011-09-04T02:54:20Z")
> [@guizot](#):
>
> Ketchup is the principle ingredient for cooking pad thai noodles (which are stir fried).
Really? I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had pad thai with ketchup (then again, I don’t eat a lot of pad thai.) It’s usually fish sauce, tamarind juice, and chile peppers, ain’t it?
---
### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/34 "2011-09-04T02:59:06Z")
> [@samclem](#):
>
> Well, to pick apart your reply. You like yellow mustard on a burger. Not good. Yellow mustard is bland.
Yet, somehow, just right for a burger. I have probably near a dozen different varieties of mustard in my fridge, but hamburgers and hot dogs get exactly one kind: Plochman’s yellow mustard. French’s will do in a pinch. Nothing else tastes right on those foods.
---
### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/35 "2011-09-04T03:12:28Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#):
>
> 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).
This…and for the record, I DO put ketchup on steak. 😛
---
### Author:  [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/36 "2011-09-04T03:17:32Z")
Ketchup does have a lot of sugar in it. ☹
---
### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/37 "2011-09-04T03:39:53Z")
Fried potatoes and scrambled eggs. Sometimes glaze for meatloaf. That’s about it for me ( though I’ll tolerate it on a burger, I don’t put it on burgers I make myself ). So it has its place and I usually have some on hand. I just don’t make heavy use of it.
---
### Author:  [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/38 "2011-09-04T03:41:28Z")
Fries only for me. I prefer other options when tradional recipies call for katsup. Like Barbq sauce on my meatloaf as a glaze and some as an internal ingredient as well.
I do use it to make cocktail sauce if the company needs it for oysers.
---
### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/39 "2011-09-04T04:07:57Z")
Ketchup is half of my special “Emergency Sauce”, for use in cheap restaurants. The other half is yellow mustard. Preferable brands: Heinz and French’s.
Mix red ketchup and yellow mustard on separate plate, using coffee saucer, if necessary. The sauce should be a burnished orange in hue. Use as dipping sauce for grilled meats. Also good with liver.
Dipping meat instead of slathering ketchup and mustard on the meat itself ensures that the ketchup and mustard are properly mixed.
---
### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068/40 "2011-09-04T04:32:13Z")
On hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries. That’s it for me. But I once read that Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese. :: shudder ::
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068.md?page=1)
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ketchup-poll/595068.md?page=3)