Ketchup.....

[poltr1]

Last week, I talked about mustard here on my LJ. Today, I want to talk about the other squeezable condiment: ketchup.

Heinz is the market leader by far and away. Why other companies still make ketchup is a mystery to me.

An even deeper mystery is why they call it by another name: catsup. Where did that word come from? Catsup isn't made from cats, it's made from tomatoes. (Wikipedia's article on ketchup attributes the spelling variation to one Jonathan Swift, circa 1730.)

Several years ago, clydar taught me the trick to get ketchup out of a glass bottle: hold the bottle upside down and hit one of the "57"s on the bottle with the palm of one's hand. Although fewer and fewer places use glass bottles for their ketchup these days.

What do I like to put ketchup on? French fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, and meatloaf. Some people put it on their eggs. (I can understand that if the eggs were scrambled and prepared in mass quantities.) And it's Heinz for me; no cheap imitators.

What brand(s) of ketchup do you like? What foods do you put it on?

Comments

[billroper]

We buy Heinz ketchup, but Hunt's is pretty good too, as is DelMonte.

Have you noticed that Canadian Heinz ketchup is distinctly sweeter than U.S. Heinz ketchup?

What do I eat ketchup on? Too many things, I think. :)

[poltr1]

Have you noticed that Canadian Heinz ketchup is distinctly sweeter than U.S. Heinz ketchup?

No, not really. It's been a while since I was last in Canada. I suspect they use real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.

[billroper]

They do, but that's not the only factor in play. The Organic Heinz ketchup you find in the stores (made in Canada, as it turns out) also uses real sugar instead of HFCS, but it tastes like the regular American product.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Another condiment of terror! I need to refer my boyfriend bikergeek here, he puts ketchup on eggs.