To get annoyed with DH for putting ketchup on every meal?

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Seriously, why does it piss me off so much? Why do I care?

But if I bother cooking from scratch (sort of), it feels like a bit of an insult when he blobs the Heinz all over it.

AIBU?

MissBetseyTrotwood ARE YOU ME? We buy chilli sauce literally by the case (alright half-case but still 6 at a time!) and I swear if we didn't have children he would put it on his sodding cornflakes. Blardy rude!

my OH loves covering my beautiful chilli and sgag bol and chicken pie and sausage casserole and .. and .. everything in bloody hp brown sauce!!!!!! im a good cook!! he is lucky to get my cooking even tho pretty much everything is from a jar/sachet but still it tastes goooood why add the sauce?? why?!!

yanbu

Reading Tripadvisor before our holiday someone gave a bad report because the hotel had no ketchup! (this seemed a plus point to me).
Unfortunately not worth fighting about.

Ha ha ha. I shouldn't laugh, sympathising as I am with your predicament but it is good to hear your DH has asbestos tastebuds too Camerondiazepam (great name btw!)

DH was working in Austin, Texas and found a chilli sauce shop. He gets his mate out there to send him over the bottles. To Hackney. Where our cornershop stocks almost 5 different types of hot sauce. Fecking annoying and a snobby fusspot to boot. Seriously, if it weren't for the DCs I'd send him down the Perfect Fried Chicken every night and I'd have a nice, sensibly seasoned tea !

Come cook for me superjobee. It sounds delicious. I will appreciate your finely seasoned dishes. And not reach for the hot sauce!

One of my exes used to make salad dressing with malt vinegar.
Very deffo an ex...

even the sgag bol missbetsy?

Yes please. The sgag bol will do nicely. I will eat every mouthful and be grateful .

next time i make sgag bol with ready made frozen garlic bread theres a portion for you!!

sounds like my dp covering everything in nandos sauce bigggggg jar untill it finished nowit's ketchup and mayo!!!!!!!! honestly i tell him i'm not buying any table sauce untill he stops this i think i should get hot tobasco sauce i'll see how he covers everything in that sauce! grin

Just hide the ketchup and deny all knowledge?

And for those of you who say ketchup goes with bacon - you are wrong wrong wrong. Bacon should be accompanied by HP.

My dh puts marmite on croissants! So wrong!

My DH does this too...but now at 52 he looks about 10 years younger!

Buy the organic version ,and remember it is actually pretty good for men to eat it

I say this after having endured 18 years of sabotaged meals

My dad covers his in Brown Fruity sauce including Roast Dinners. It always used to be OK fruity sauce, but you can't buy it anymore. So these days its Sainsbos own brand fruity sauce. I have the misfortune of living near a Sainsbury's so I am the sad sucker who goes in once a month and buys my dad a CRATE of the stuff, he goes through THREE bottles a week.

YANBU - It really makes me wonder why I bother to cook nice things when people just obliterate the food with sauce, I know it is just personal taste and not intended as an insult but it still feels like a negative judgement on my cooking and the flavours I am presenting.

Fortunately for him DH is not an offender, but XP always drove me daft by dolloping obscenely vast amounts of mayonnaise on everything (and it had to be Hellmans ) and FIL practically empties the hot sauce bottle onto everything savoury he eats - he even puts hot sauce on his bloody Christmas dinner. Madness, if I was MIL I'd be quite offended that he apparently doesn't want to ever taste what he is eating .

YANBU. My mother does this with salt

Cheap ready meals from now on.... :o

DP does this and it really angers me. He'll even buy a chinese and smother it with ketchup. I'm always saying "don't you want to actually TASTE THE CHINESE??

I don't know why it annoys me so much but it does.

everyone has their idiosyncracies about food. If you like cooking from scratch, why not make your own ketchup for him? Maybe then it doesn't feel like such an insult to your cooking when he uses it?

My DH smothers everything in HP brown sauce, his favourite is smothering garlic bread in the stuff, I find it rude after I cook from scratch but he wont change, ive tried not buying it as I hate the stuff but he just buys his own!

I've noticed this sort of behaviour in a few people I know. I't not that they put ketchup on all their food that bothers me, but that they seem to be unable to eat food without it. The various ketchup hunting/demanding posts above appear to suggest that this is not uncommon.

Why does it matter just because you cooked from scratch (like that's a big deal anyway - heating up ready meals isn't actually cooking)? He's not smothering your dinner in tomato ketchup, I presume.

Unclench the lot of you. If someone tried to dictate what I could or couldn't put on my food I'd tell them to fuck off, frankly.

If I met a new bloke and he did this, it would actually be a deal breaker for me. Seriously!

Wow I'm really surprised how wound up people are about this. I use a lot of ketchup, I bloody love the stuff. If someone thought me using it was an insult to their cooking I'd think they were a bit soft in the head, and insecure at that. If I make food I like people to enjoy it whatever way they want, I'm not going to stand over them and make sure they eat it as "presented" with an "mmmm" after every bite.

My mum used to criticise how I ate my food - I would mash everything together and use a lot of ketchup. I moved out as soon as I could and found someone who actually liked me and lived in a place where I could eat my fucking food in peace.

I dont (and don't think others) stand over people asking for praise but smothering freshly cooked food with an additional sauce or any seasoning without tasting it is a little rude IMHO. But fortunately for me, I don't know anyone that does this so not currently an issue!