To say that people who put their tomato sauce/ketchup in the fridge are plain wrong.

[Salmotrutta]

They just are.

There is no need.

Similarly, the deluded people who put eggs in the fridge are wrong.

Eggs are best left at room temperature.

Fact.

And don't get me started on butter...

They're the corpses you find with half a hotdog in their hand and a ring of room temperature ketchup around their mouths.

Perhaps the Freedom of Information Act would tell us how many ketchup related deaths there were from 2000-2014?

Ah squoosh, in that case, I see them everywhere. It's a fucking epidemic.

'Marjorie, the wholegrain mustard is coming up to the 8 week mark. Let's don our bio hazard suits and remove it cautiously from fridge'.

oh that actually made me laugh out loud because its so accurate.

Yes, Salmo they just love a good rule to follow. Order, structure etc its what they live for.

Salmo, send that FOI to DoH. Don't let those fuckers whitewash you. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

I bet Edward Snowdon has the stats!

But what about the Data Protection conundrum as it relates to FOI Nagasaki?

It's all too much!

It's ok Salmo. If they're dead, the DPA doesn't apply. FOI away!

Or Julian Assange?!

Is he still in the Ecuadorian Embassy??

I must away

whispers I still do love cold ketchup though

But where do you keep your peanut butter, nutella and vegemite/marmite?

I'm with Outraged

It doesn't matter.

Not more than which way to put the toilet roll.

GrinandTonic - I do not eat peanut butter, Nutella or marmite so I don't care.

DH eats peanut butter on an odd occasion but I really don't give a hoot where he stores it.

HTH.

Hot chips.

Cool ketchup.

Heaven.

Yabu ketchup should be cold

Cold ketchup, yuk!
Ketchup and Marmite in cupboard.
Mayo and salad cream in fridge.
Having said that our consumption of tomato ketchup is pretty quick so no need of preserving it in fridge!

You can certainly look it up on the CDC website. You can die from pretty much any kind of food if people don't use basic food hygiene instructions. There have been outbreaks (so not just individuals) from lettuce, from raw tomatoes, from salsa, from korma sauce. Such is life. It isn't reallythat big of a drama to be aware of it.

Almond very true. We have had a country wide recall of certain frozen berries due to poor hygienic practices during production in China and the accompanying hepatitis A outbreak in Australia.

I never thaught ketchup could stir up such heated discussions.

i store mine in the frige once opened as everyone I know does, same with eggs.
Glad to learn there are other ways of doing this, but I'd be a bit worried with the room temp eggs: it seems a health hazard.

hihi!! death by ketchup!!!

Marjorie, the wholegrain mustard is coming up to the 8 week mark

There may well be wholegrain mustard in my cupboard coming up to the 8 year mark.

British eggs do not need to be stored in the fridge, American eggs do.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2644251/Un-scrambling-truth-Why-American-eggs-ILLEGAL-sell-UK-vice-versa.html

DH and I had the biggest argument over this when we moved in together. He won after our ketchup went off in the cupboard. I think in England it's perfectly fine to keep it in your cupboard. Here in the US it doesn't last more than 2 weeks in the summer months where it's 90-100f in July and August.

We have to put our ketchup in the fridge here (Oz) otherwise the ants get at it.

And if you buy eggs, they ARE better in the fridge, because they could have been stored for up to 3mths (or longer) before they even reach the supermarket shelves, so you have no idea how old they actually are.

I don't keep mine in the fridge, because they are freshly laid each day & don't last longer than a few days, so I am not precious about eggs, just shop bought ones.

In the UK it's advised that eggs are NOT stored in the fridge.