to post a question about a hopefully non bunfight type topic

[Socknickingpixie]

matter in hand ketchup.

is it rude or not to put it on everything from lobster to a sunday roast i mean actually everything apart from puddings and cerial?

Someone who is getting through £19 worth of ketchup can't be tasting anything except ketchup - I certainly wouldn't waste time or money serving them lobster!

Actually I think if someone has taken time to prepare a meal with a nice sauce, or has carefully flavoured a meal with herbs or spices, the it is a bit rude, especially if you don't even taste it first.

I'm not anti ketchup - I love it with chips, but not all over everything.

Balance out the money spent by buying a giant bag of oven chips & no bloody lobster!

Terry Pratchett calls it "autocondimenting."

It's a horrid habit. DSis even has red sauce on Christmas dinner and on baked beans, WEIRD.

Red sauce is for on fried breakfast. Mayo with chips. No need for brown sauce EVER. These are the Rules.

£19.00 on Ketchup a week?!

WTAF kind of Ketchup are you buying?!

£19.00??

£19? Save the bottle and tip value stuff into it next week!

I dont think its rude as such, I had a housemate who did it, even on toast in the morning, used to make me gip.

But seriously £19 a WEEK?

How much must they be having?

Someone needs to stop enabling his ketchup fix

If buy tomatoes and get them to.squash with their feet to make their own!

I'd*

To some people it brings out the flavour. I do not do it but would never find it rude if somone else did lol why would you. :)

Hmm... if the adult concerned has no money, you could always stop buying ketchup and see what happens then? £19 a week is far too much to be spending on one person's ketchup habit!

If I make a meal for someone I want that person to enjoy it. If that means slathering it in ketchup or salt then so be it.

£19 per week on ketchup is a little extreme though, what brand is it? Harrod's?

No, it's not rude at all. People who get offended at having ketchup put on food they cooked are uptight and don't care enough about being an accommodating host who wants their guest to enjoy thir food the way they like it.

How can taste preferences possibly be rude?

My DS5 thinks that food without ketchup is not......... well............ food!!No problem!!

Someone eating that amount of ketchup has a serious addiction to salt and sugar! It's a pretty unhealthy diet. Even the stuff that has no added sugar has significant amounts of the stuff, due to the concentration of the natural sugars from the tomatoes.

Buy Kania Tomato Ketchup in Lidl - 69p for 500ml. It's tastier than any of the big brand ketchups.

I make exception for children and sandwiches, but IMO adults who put tomato/brown sauce directly on their food instead of at the side of their plate are uncouth.

I don't have a problem with anyone who adds salt as they wish to foods such as egg & chips or fish & chips but, whether I've cooked or we're eating out, I expect my companions to taste their food before adding salt and/or pepper.

I have a question for people that think it's more rude to use ketchup before tasting.

Doesn't it seem more offensive to you to taste something and then put ketchup on it? Because that seems like saying 'I would have eaten it without ketchup if it had been nice enough, but it's not, so actually I am going to need ketchup to eat this'

If they put ketchup on before they even start you can be certain that they just really like ketchup and have it with most things, and you can be sure then that it's just their preference rather than your cooking.

Right?

There is no need for anyone, adult or child, to use ketchup on anything other than chips, burger or breakfast rolls.

you missed Fishfinger butties.. they are fab with ketchup..

but 19 bottles a week.. that is an addiction that needs sorting out, and not normal..

and more fool you for buying it OP..

Outraged you are again saying that people put sauces on things to hide the taste, not to enhance the taste.

I think this would be nice with this sauce at least suggests that you have thought about it.

Yes. It's also acting like a giant 3 year old to need to put ketchup on everything as an adult.

I would put mustard with steak or gammon because I know that I like it though.. not because I was worried that the food may taste crap. Admittedly, english mustard does help an overcooked bit of leather rump go down a lot easier!

But presumably, squeaky, you put mustard, horseradish, tartare sauce etc, on the side of your plate not directly on your meat/fish?

£19 a week's worth of ketchup is not using as a condiment. This person must be simply plastering it on.

Don't waste any more money on proper food for them, Socknickingpixie, just give them the packaging your stuff comes in. They won't notice.

Is he bathing in it?