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

Save your fancy cooking for others and just give him basic well cooked food. Ketchup is good for you as tomato purée co trains lycopene. Also buy high end ketchup.

I have ketchup boy! He puts ketchup on everything! I'm just glad he eats. He's skin & bone.

My OH puts brown sauce on his roast dinner with gravy!

gravy and ketchup?! 🤢 That's a line my DH won't cross (thank god!)

Even my DS won't have gravy'n'ketchup.

"I'm not a savage Muvver"

I once went on a date with ketchup man! I met him on OLD, chatted and got on well, so we met up for a drink. We got on really well so decided to find somewhere to eat. There were a few options nearby so we wandered along, looked at them all and decided on Thai. He spent ages looking at the menu and ordered - plain rice. When the waitress asked if he wanted anything with the rice he replied 'Ketchup please!' When the rice arrived he then proceeded to squirt ketchup all over it, and I mean ALL over it, and then he stirred it up, like someone mixing jam into rice pudding. Needless to say I decided there and then that he was not the one for me. I excused myself to go the ladies hoping I'd be able to make my escape but there was only a tiny window high up so I had to go back and watch him devour the red mess on his plate. Vile!

Finally if I'm cooking a really nice meal it's actually pretty insulting to have expensive ingredients ruined by by having their flavour masked by a £3 condiment

Omg how posh are you? My ketchup is 59p from Aldi

@madaboutrunning that can't have been my DH then, he'd have waited until you'd committed

I'd just not cook him dinner and just pop a bottle of sauce in front of him one day 😁.

I’m married to mint sauce and mash everything into a big pile of mush man for certain meals - I’ll trade you

Nah, once it's on the table, don't care how they dress it

My ex was the same, but with soy sauce. Even on pasta. He was so smug about never using salt, and so huffy when I pointed out that soy sauce is 90% salt

Married to HP sauce and white pepper man here. Very early in our relationship I cooked a beautiful herby salmon in butter and lemon, with tagliatelle in a subtle but lovely complementary cheese sauce. (We were pretty broke and this was a one off anniversary meal)

To be fair, this was for a man who previously lived on pot noodles and toast, in hindsight I should’ve seen the writing on the wall...

He didn’t even taste it, just smothered it in brown sauce and pepper, before mentioning it didn’t taste of much.

We didn’t have a patio have been married 14 ish years now. I’ve never made him salmon again, and he now does most of the cooking as I work far more hours. He’s a great cook now, and I no longer hide the pepper

@rc22

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

I know I’m late, but can I add chicken nuggets to that list? I know they’re the food of Satan on here, but for pure comfort food McDs nuggets and ketchup are hard to beat...mmmm

@nocturnalcatfreetogoodhome

Let me introduce you to my husband gravy boy.

Chips - gravy
Wedges - gravy
Baby new potatoes - gravy
Roasted veg - gravy
Mash - gravy
Pie - gravy
Bread and butter - gravy
Sausages - gravy
Battered meat - gravy

If he can add gravy he fucking will! I should have shares in bisto.

Oh sweet lord just realised I’m gravy girl Im Welsh, so gravy on chips is a staple foodstuff, but it’s got to be chip shop gravy or proper homemade gravy on other stuff .

shame I’ve never perfected homemade gravy and after it’s cooled you can slice it with a knife. Tastes lush though

@SiliconHeaven

Finally if I'm cooking a really nice meal it's actually pretty insulting to have expensive ingredients ruined by by having their flavour masked by a £3 condiment

Omg how posh are you? My ketchup is 59p from Aldi

Obviously very 😂

@BlaBlaSmthSmth

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.

No I don't.

The post has been deleted.

That's because I also don't have to put up with personal attacks that are against talk guidelines.

Omg how posh are you? My ketchup is 59p from Aldi

There's one in Lidl that was recommended , bought some for Ketchup Connoisseur DS , he was impressed !

I'm a salt lady, but I'm on doctors orders to increase my salt intake thanks to chronic low blood pressure. Now it's just habit to salt everything.

I like condiments, but whatever it is goes on the side, unless it's gravy. I like being able to dip in and change up the taste occasionally!

@ketchupman

I feel like I've found some of my people.

I think it's fine knowing what you like but it's not so fine calling yourself a foodie. I'm not sure he'd pass muster on MasterChef with a smear of ketchup on his main course...

And yes to the salt!! Everything gets salted too, without tasting I might add. Perhaps I might need to start salting it first!

Mine even eats ketchup on potato chips, because they were once a potato and it's ok.

Black pepper addict here. Freshly ground of course.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

Omg how posh are you? My ketchup is 59p from Aldi

There's one in Lidl that was recommended , bought some for Ketchup Connoisseur DS , he was impressed !

It is apparently very nice ketchup according to my DM

She's going to pick some up for me next shopping trip.

It will be used appropriately 😂.

This thread just came up in the talk roundup email and I had to come and add my lovely DH.

He puts raw chillies on all savoury food. I just asked him if there were any foods he wouldn’t put it on and he said “puddings” though he says he wouldn’t put it on roast dinner (think I’ve seen him do that). He’ll even add it to hot curries. His favourite is habanero.

If no raw chilli is available he will grind huge quantities of black pepper over his food instead.

I find it more perplexing than anything else tbh.

I guess he’s called “raw chilli bloke”

For those with DPs with a pepper problem, I suggest The One Hundred and One Dalmatians as a bedtime story for your children, with particular reference to Cruella de Vil's dinner party.