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

@RogueMnerHidesUnderABigHat

Aw!

Op, you're married to my dad, who was a caterer.

Shame he died in 2012!

Now that's weird! Someone who died in 2012 still putting ketchup on their food, that is.

And I am Salty the Salt Person. I salt everything before I taste it. But, then again, I consider salt - along with alcohol, fat and sugar - to be one of the four major food groups.

@AlfonsoTheMango 🤣🤣🤣

I live with salad cream man but hey, he puts up with me and my love of vinegar! 😂

YANBU. He future faked a life together with nice dinners.

I’m married to mustard man. It is fucking annoying when I have taken the effort to cook something delicious. I choose to just roll my eyes and take the piss out of him.

I haven't RTFT but I just want to thank you for the laugh! You could be describing my DH, except with him it's every condiment under the sun. Ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard, mayo, several different varieties of hot sauce, pesto, sriracha... All of them. On almost every meal. His plate is like 40% sauce. It's crazy.

OP just don't put as much effort or expense in to cooking. A £2 steak tastes the same as a £8 steak if covered in ketchup (texture still different but whatever).

Or you could do what I have previously done w my auto-salting DP and pre-ketchup the fuck out of the food

How does he taste anything but ketchup?

What's the point of giving him anything but the most basic nutrition, if that's what he's going to do to it?

I was about to be all "omg what a child, he has no taste at all and should subsist on potato smiles forever more"

Then I copped on and realised that DP is about to marry MayonnaiseGirl so I have no grounds to comment 😬😳

I have a family member who does this. It’s not just that he puts it on absolutely everything, but he uses so much! He can’t possibly be able to taste anything but ketchup. It is annoying to make a nice meal and see someone drown it in ketchup. It’s like they think your food is so revolting they have to cover up the taste.
My grandfather had such a bad salt habit his family worried for his health. Apparently his dinners looked like there was snow on them.

I'm the cook and I make food the way it was intended for everyone else. For me, it's red Chile flakes, raw jalapeños, siracha, red or green chile sauce, gochujang, piri piri, etc... all over it.

Food is just a vessel for the hot stuff!

My partner does this with bloody Nando’s sauce. It drives me insane. Why bother making a pasta sauce from scratch when he isn’t even going to bloody taste it before dumping a heap of Nando’s sauce all over it.

Edit: I'm a dipper though, not a smotherer. And I wouldn't have mayo with anything that has gravy (I would have mustard though)

Also DP puts mint sauce on his bacon sandwiches, the freak.

I'm mayo woman but need hp sauce with baked beans. Ketchup with pizza is obligatory.

@ExhaustedFlamingo

*My taste buds definitely aren't ruined by years of ketchup abuse

without some kind of sauce/gravy/condiment I find meals a bit bland *

You probably have as you say ruined your tastebuds without realising. It's part of the highly processed nature of alot of food. Enjoy it if you want but you can't pretend it doesn't have an effect all that salt and sugar.

😆 this is my husband too, except with brown sauce! And he did it from the start of our relationship so I can’t get offended now 🤦🏼‍♀️

[quote ketchupman]@FluffyPinkSocks gravy and ketchup?! 🤢 That's a line my DH won't cross (thank god!)[/quote]
Make every dish with gravy?!?

My OH puts food inside one half of a jacket potato and picks it up to eat. Makes me want to pull his eyes out 🤣

All I do now is cut his jacket into 4 pieces so he can't do this.

Your post reflects very poorly on you.

I'd suggest you might want to consider what you post on FWR when you're happy to post as you did on a thread about ketchup....

What? 🤣🤣🤣

Settle down, I don't want to speak for @IAmAWomanNotACis but I don't think you actually have to worry about any plastic cheese in the vicinity.

@TheUnexpectedPickle

Edit: I'm a dipper though, not a smotherer. And I wouldn't have mayo with anything that has gravy (I would have mustard though)

Also DP puts mint sauce on his bacon sandwiches, the freak.

Mint sauce on bacon sandwiches you say? Interesting idea 🤔

😁

Just saying😂

I'm married to soy sauce man so feel your pain.

I once made a fish pie. Milk infused with a clove studded onion and a bay leaf. £20 of fresh fish.
DH covered his in brown sauce

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

Absolutely this. It's disgraceful.

If you are trying to control what your partner eats then you have a problem.