I'm married to ketchup man

[ketchupman]

Semi light-hearted, first world problem and have name changed 🙄

I married a man who was a self declared 'foodie'. This was great, I like cooking and eating a lot.

Quite a few years in now, it transpires I'm married to ketchup man who slathers it over his food whenever he can. Steak, fancy burgers, anything with potato, nothing is safe from ketchup man. It turns out he didn't do this in the first few years of our relationship as he knew it was a bit odd.

He doesn't understand why I'm irritated by making an effort to cook a nice meal for him only for it to be covered in ketchup (roast potatoes with rosemary got ketchupped tonight).

YABU - it's okay to do this, let the man ketchup a fillet steak without rolling eyes
YANBU - cook him toddler food and don't waste flavour on him

My ex is Mr Maggi. Myopic to any flavour that isn't Maggi. It used to go on chicken, steak, pizza, salad, pasta, pies (of which he also used to throw away the pastry lid and sides, rendering the entire reason for having a pie pointless), and so on. I gradually discouraged him from cooking at mine because Maggi makes everything smell of Maggi. Surprised he never carried it to its ultimate conclusion and put it in his tea.

I've put some of that Brussels Sprouts Ketchup in my Amazon basket

Ketchup belongs on sausage sandwiches, bacon sandwiches, hot dogs or fish fingers. It's an abomination to put it on anything else!!

Totally agree @DeRigueurMortis
Really bloody rude covering every flavour you have cooked in a salt/sugar/ vinegar combo, fine on the odd occasion but not on every meal

My son has autism and does this. It's the least of my worries. I salt food. It's mine. If it bothers others, they don't have to eat it. I can't abide people who judge or police my food.

@HundredMilesAnHour

A babyish need to have tomato sauce with every dinner would irritate the fuck out of me quite frankly.

This. To be frank, if someone did this, I doubt we'd get further than a first or second date. I don't have ketchup in my home (nor mayonnaise nor HP sauce) and I've never bought a bottle in my life.

I would, however, welcome the Black Pepper Assassin with open arms.

Hurrah! I’ll drop him around after work tomorrow.

My son has a tshirt that says I put ketchup on my ketchup and It needs more ketchup.

I’m seriously questioning if your my mum 🤔

@Golden2021

Dh has it on pizza! WTF. At least he's not ruining a gourmet meal though.

Is it not normal to have ketchup with pizza? I don't think I could eat it without tbh

@Oysterbabe

Honestly if my husband tried to control what I ate I'd tell him to go fuck himself.

Very much this

Seriously though who gives a shit?! It’s just a sauce, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t appreciate your cooking. No different than adding peppercorn sauce to a steak or tartare sauce to fish. Is it the plastic bottle that offends you?

I’d be telling my OH to do one if he policed me like this

Dh smothers everything in Tabasco and it drives me nuts. Don’t get me wrong, I love a little splash here and there but he literally covers his whole meal in it so it’s all you can taste. I’m just going to make the same thing every night because it all tastes the same to him anyway!

I was going to say this would annoy me, and it would.

Except I put either capers, jalapenos or both on everything. Or pickled red cabbage. I don't know what's wrong with me I just really like brined or pickled foods wouldn't when someone else has cooked me a nice meal though MIL is nice enough to put jalapenos out for me even when she's cooked a risotto because she knows I'm a freak.

In my defence I do all the cooking in the house though so I can bastardise it if I please....right?!

I am similar with mint sauce TBH. It's one of my favourite tastes

Let him enjoy. Life is too short!
God knows, maybe rosemary ketchup is delicious!

I am on the fence. I live with BBQ sauce man and it drives me crazy. A beautiful fillet steak smothered in BBQ. Really? - but then I hot sauce my scrambled eggs and pizza so I’m not one to talk! Life and let live!

It's not about food snobbery it's about ruining nice food with a really unhealthy substance in excess.

But it's not your food or your diet so why the bloody hell do you care? You're not being forced to eat it, are you?

Honestly, the level of control-freakery around other adults' food and drink on this forum is bonkers and actually quite unhealthy imo

I feel the same way about gravy. Why do people want to pour the Devil's diarrhoea over perfectly good roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips etc? My exH used to
a-salt everything.

DH puts ketchup in ham sandwiches and Jam in cheese sandwiches, which freaks me out for some reason.
When I use vinegar I use an obscene amount. DH once choked in the street when he pinched one of my chips from the fish and chippy.
We forgive eachothers food quirks, except when it comes to the names of baked goods.
Teacakes vs bread rolls will probably be in the paperwork if we ever get divorced.

Could be worse. At least you're not married to Salad Cream Man.

Stop buying ketchup! He might taste something. If he asks for ketchup, pass him the sugar bowl and tell him it's basically the same thing; it is.

I get this with tabasco. I reckon DH has burned out his tastebuds over the years. At least he never claimed to be a foodie or have any sort of palate.

I loved tomato sauce growing up because it's so sugary and my parents were shit at cooking but then I lived with one of you Ketchupwomen at uni and it put me right off. It wasn't so much the use of it but the smell and sight after it had been left congealing for days in her room. At one point a blue bottle laid eggs in her left out Ketchup and never again have I been able to tolerate it.

My best friend's son developed an addiction to it to the point he had to have surgery to remove rotten baby teeth at age 7 from the sugar and acid.

Unfortunately my DC love it. I won't have it in my house but my ex does. Sometimes it's given as standard to kids in restaurants so I obviously let them at it but I'm took straight back to the fly eggs and put right off my food.

I would absolutely be incompatible with Ketchupman but appreciate these are my own issues. I can take the high road and say it's just down to health but I load up on every other condiment available so have zero high ground!

My friend's son is now 13 and has just had a rotten adult tooth removed, though as he still mainlines tomato sauce so I don't care if I'm labelled controlling for banning it from the house. My dc would do shots of it if they could.

He's not actually doing anything wrong and, hopefully, doesn't embarrass you in front of guests or when you are eating out.

It would get on my nerves, just as people who cover their plate in salt without first trying it, do (I was always taught that was bad manners), however it's not a hanging offence.

A bit of gentle mick taking from others and 'joke' gifts involving sauce, cards with tomato sauce bottles in pictures, might open his eyes a bit.

I think I'd have found out before living with him, frankly.

My mum berated my father for putting vinegar on everything (including roast dinners) I grew up thinking vinegar was bad 🤷🏼‍♀️ but it turns out she just didn't like my useless fucktard of a father. (I love vinegar and still feel naughty for liking it and I'm 43)

Who gives a shit.

I put mint sauce on everything. 🤷‍♀️

At most I would worry about the amount of sugar he’s consuming but he’s not doing any harm to anyone.

Ooh OP you could make a ketchup advent calendar for him start collecting different flavoured ketchups now, definitely the Brussels sprout one from upthread (very Christmassy). I wonder if there are 25 different types to collect!

I would love to do this if I had a KetchupMan