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?

Why is it rude to put ketchup on food, even if it has been cooked for you, but not rude to do the cooking and then dictate how people eat it?

I really can't believe the people here saying it's rude.

Rude? To want to enjoy your food in the way that you prefer it? Really?

It's not like there are people putting ketchup on your food and suggesting you eat it that way hen you don't like it.

Do you feel the same way about people adding salt or pepper? Both of those alter the way food tastes more drastically than ketchup imo.

YABU to me...oh dear...I too need sauce with all my food. I love Lea & Perrins. But I also like either HP brown sauce, mayo, garlic mayo, english mustard, mint sauce or ketchup with my food.

If I have steak in restaurants I prefer my steak with mayo on the side.
I went to the carvery with a friend recently - she criticised me for putting mint sauce with beef. I thought you could have it with anything?
My mouth is always dry due to medication. I can't eat any food that's dry so I always make sure there's a bottle of sauce around (or even a sachet in my bag). It's better to add your own sauce and eat everything than complain and not eat the food.

It's a bad habit and bad FOR you - full of sugar.

I would find it difficult to tolerate in a five year old, let alone a grown man.

I would be very upset if my DH did this too. Luckily we don't have it in the house as I loathe the stuff and DH will only eat it occassionally if he has chips somewhere out.

My DH eats hot green chillies with everything and I find that mad too but it doesn't actually upset me. I just don't know how he actually tastes anything after he has had a chillie

Does he plop it on your plate too? Force you to eat it? Thought not. Here's a question for you, OP.... if he came on here, complaining about your table manners, the way you eat or your condiment preference... you'd expect us to give him short shrift, wouldn't you?

My husband loves ketchup, I like it very occasionally... I smile blithely wihen I see he's put it on spaghetti bolognese and roast dinners with gravy but, his stomach not mine.

You're being unreasonable if you voice your annoyance, he's an adult and unless you want the role of 'mother', keep quiet.

My mother had your attitude. I hated it. I wonder if your DH does too.

For me, Sunday lunches combined the smell of roast chicken and the whiff of burning martyr. She ruined just about every Sunday. Christmas Day was even worse.

She'd go into a massive sulk if you wanted any form of condiment, I'm talking pepper, let alone HP sauce, because it was an insult to her cooking which she'd spent hours slaving over - entirely of her own volition. She'd never say that though, just snipe for hours.

I never wanted to eat brown sauce with roast chicken. But so what if I did? It's just food, not proof of love.

I skip all family get togethers now because she still makes the same performance. Surely, that's not what she wants?

Now we either eat at my house or in restaurants and the pressure's off. I love my mother very much. She's a kind and loving woman and always has been. Petty tyrant over meals though.

I love AIBU!

Oh yeah & love the mint yoghurt sauce in indian restaurants.
And lime pickle.
Mmm.

My mum has to have Salad Cream with all salad (yuck - but i buy it for her).
My sister hates mayo & vinegar.
Don't deprive your DH of his ketchup - that's cruel !

I agree it is annoying, but totally unreasonable I'm afraid!

It took a long time for me to beat it out of him stop OH from salting absolutely everything before he had even tasted it.

so stop buying it and don't have any in the house

For me, Sunday lunches combined the smell of roast chicken and the whiff of burning martyr

Oh that made me snort out loud in a most unattractive fashion

OP YABVU - he's an adult he can decide what he wants to put on his meal. Imagine if this was the other way round and a man was moaning his partner was using Ketchup - we'd all be horrified and full of 'OOOOOOO how controlling, you can put what you want on YOUR dinner' etc etc

Sorry for the late reply, I saw this thread earlier in the week but couldn't post at the time.

If I went on a date with a man who covered his food with ketchup (unless it was chips or something) it would really put me off dating him again. I think that the food you eat say a lot about the person, and to me someone who puts ketchup on their chinese (well you never know!) or authentic Italian would be rather uncultured and not exactly a sophisticated chap. That's just not cool or sexy is it!

Oooh just remembered my reason for wanting to post on this thread (head like swiss cheese at the moment).

There was a thread by someone who was dating a man who was texting her crap jokes. SOOOO many people said that she should dump him because of it and how naff and immature it was. That's why I was so surprised to see this thread and see so many YABU. Surely if a man is immature for sending text jokes then he is even more so for covering EVERYTHING he eats in tomato sauce like at 10yo boy!

I think it says "taste peasant". Avoid.

YABU! I do the same- not because my DH is a bad cook (yeah I can't cook!!) but because I love ketchup and it makes my meal even better! My whole family does the same- used to watch all my uncles cover their roast dinner in it every Friday. Let him eat what he wants!

Oh shit! Also meant to say that I'd be sooo embarrassed to eat out with someone who did that! Imagine taking a new bloke out to dinner to meet your friends and he puts ketchup on his Indian or something!

booberella Do you not find that all your meals taste the same though. Ketchup is a strong taste so aren't you just eating plates of food which are apperently different but all taste of ketchup? There's no variety.

Lol, no I exaggerated slightly- I only have ketchup if there is no other sauce/gravy, just a blob on the side to mainly dip my veggies in! I can see how it may be slightly annoying if the whole dish was covered in it!!

georgimama heating up ready meals isn't the same as cooking from scratch!

Surely ketchup is SUPPOSED to be on macaroni cheese? At least that's the only way I'll eat it - possibly due to my mother insisting on making it from scratch and the look of horror on her face as I drowned it in ketchup making it taste, oh so much nicer and at the same time discouraging her from making it any time soon??

Wouldn't bother me as long as it wasn't to the point that I could serve him up slop, and as long as it was covered in ketchup he'd still eat it - I'd be pretty cross if organic, kobe beef was on the menu and he asked for the ketchup.... LOL!

It's quite infantile, smothering everything in ketchup. It's like they've reluctantly moved on from chicken nuggets, but on the proviso that everything has ketchup on it so it tastes the same.

I shouldn't judge though, I am the mayonnaise fiend.

"infantile" . . . yes!