Ketchup on eggs - gross, or the most?

[Tab]

My wife has some unusual culinary affections, most of which I'll ignore for now, but the one that drives me particularly nuts is her fondness for putting Heinz ketchup on eggs.

Now I know eggs are sometimes eaten with salsa, but salsa's cool - fresh tomatoes (or maybe cooked, depending on the salsa). Heinz ketchup, however, is really just corn syrup and sodium benzoate.

I've asked different groups of people every once in a while. It generally seems split down the middle - people either think ketchup is god's gift to eggs, or they think it's a creation from hell. No one is neutral in their opinion.

What do y'all think? God's gift to breakfast, or breakfast from hell?

[salvorhardin]

1. Not for breakfast.

However, a nice egg sandwich with mayo, lettuce, a thin slice of onion and ketchup is the bomb. Has to be assembled in the proper order though -- bread, mayo, lettuce, egg, onion, ketchup, bread. A classic summertime meal. Second only to the cucumber sandwich which in its most elemental form is just bread, mayo, and cucumber slices (it very quickly spirals out of control into Salad On A Bun as you add other ingredients).

[Warpy]

2. Vile

Introduce her to salsa. Really. Ketchup is tomatoes, vinegar and chemicals. Salsa is tomatoes, peppers, onion, lime juice, and a little cilantro. Completely different flavor experience. Ketchup is kid stuff.

Ketchup on fries is barbaric, too. Dunk if you must, but don't make them look like they bled to death on your plate.

Thank you.

[Tab]

3. I know

She has ketchup on fries too, but that's so common in this country it doesn't come off as unusual. I can't stand it myself, though.

In Europe, and in certain areas in the States, it's not uncommon to put mayo on them. I wouldn't do that either, but at least I might like it better than ketchup.

With good (I'm mean really good) fries, you have to put malt vinegar on them (while they're still hot). That's what you need.

[pengillian101]

39. Visiting Canada...

"With good (I'm mean really good) fries, you have to put malt vinegar on them (while they're still hot)."

Nope, to me I didn't care for it. The restaurant we went to also had a dip mayonnaise after the vinegar spritz.

I think we all love what we grew up with, and french fries are made to dip in ketchup for me :-}

[EFerrari]

4. This seems to be a dealbreaker for a lot of couples and one I exploited

when trying to amuse one of my nieces. I make a "book" out of stapled pieces of printer paper and we drew it together. She had this nice story about a princess going and my page was "scrambled eggs and ketchup".

So, when it was all done, I'd "read it to her". "This is the garden at Auntie Beth's studio. This is a princess who comes to the garden. She's wearing a big beautiful dress. These are the flowers that Auntie Beth lets her pick, any ones she wants. Here are some scrambled eggs and ketchup".

So, Rachel will either laugh every single time her boyfriend has scrambled e&k or she will will throw him out. Even money.

[Lugnut]

5. Ewwww.

My husband puts ketchup on his eggs too. It turns my stomach.

[Warpy]

10. My ex did until I introduced him to harissa

which is a Middle Eastern hot sauce I'd tasted at an Israeli restaurant in town and then hustled off to the library to learn how to make.

Now I just use Sriracha sauce, a good chile-garlic sauce to use when I don't have the time or energy to do a batch of harissa.

[Duer 157099]

6. I can go both ways on that one

For me, it's like fries -- if you have one with ketchup, then you must eat the rest with ketchup. Same with eggs, if you have one bite with, the rest must also.

And try a scrambled egg on some wheat toast with ketchup, it's an amazing sandwich.

As for salsa, that has it's place too. Huevos rancheros, for example. But also, a chile relleno that is coated in egg and then fried, is eaten with salsa.

Growing up, I recall that my sister would NOT eat scrambled eggs unless they were smothered in ketchup.

[Tesha]

7. Yup.... and I won't apologize!

It's one of those linked things from childhood...


milk and cookies
bread and butter
ketchup and eggs

creamy, fluffy, peppery, hot, scrambled eggs
crispy homefries, juicy sausage, and a spot of cold ketchup.

mmmmmmm

[beac]

8. A breakfast tradition.

I picked up the habit from my dad who says he picked up the habit in the Navy as a way to make powdered eggs more palatable. Growing up, when egss were on the menu, ketchup was on the table.

Oddly, I don't realy like ketchup on anything else, not even french fries-- though I have been known to dip a deep-fried potato in Heinz 57, which is really just ketchup on steroids. It's good on eggs, too! ;)

[surrealAmerican]

9. I hate to disprove your theory, but ...

... I'm neutral in my opinion. If we're talking about scrambled eggs here, I like them with a little ketchup or without.

[The empressof all]

11. I too can take it or leave it but only on Scrambled Eggs-My favorite egg recipe

Eggs and tomatoes are a pretty wonderful combo though. One of my favorite egg dishes is baked eggs.

I empty a can of Rotel in a small pan and heat it up a bit. I add a little salt and pepper and crack 4 or so eggs right on to the Rotel. I cover with a layer of Cheddar and stick in the oven until melty. You want the eggs cooked but the yolks still runny.

I serve with toast or on Black Beans and Tortillas.

It's easy and it's absolutely fabulous.

[hobbit709]

12. Donna put ketchup on everything

When she put ketchup on the Wiener Schnitzel I cooked, I told her she was committing sacrilege.

[Denninmi]

13. Well, to each his own.

What grossed me out once was when I was watching an episode of the travel show 'Globe Trekker' on PBS, and the host said one of the most popular street foods in Glasgow (or perhaps it was Edinborough, but Scotland somewhere) was a battered, deep fried Snickers bar served with ketchup.

Only thing worse was the episode in Uganda where they were eating skewered, deep fried mice of some kind.

[The empressof all]

15. I've heard tell of Ketchup flavored potato chips

I'm not sure which turns me off more... that or the Pickle flavored ones. (Not to be confused with the Salt and Vinegar flavored--Which is scrumptious)

[pengillian101]

25. Just NO!

No, no, no - to all of it.

[yellerpup]

14. Just before I entered the 1st grade, I watched TV

and one of the sponsors of an adventure show about the French Foreign Legion was Heinz ketchup. The commercial featured scrambled eggs with ketchup smothering the eggs. The first one was delish! The second one (my mom would only scramble one at a time for me) left me still wanting more. When I finished the third one I barfed for the rest of the morning and have never been tempted to douse egg with ketchup since. Still can't think of the combo without getting all 'urp-ey'.

[pengillian101]

22. Eggactly my opinion, lol.

I barfed for the rest of the morning and have never been tempted to douse egg with ketchup since. Still can't think of the combo without getting all 'urp-ey'.

[yellerpup]

23. A nice, spicy salsa sets eggs off really well.

No ketchup for you! :rofl:

[japple]

16. Richard Nixon used to eat ketchup with his cottage cheese

for lunch. Now that's reeeeeeally gross.

[Retrograde]

17. At least it's not canned baked beans

a favorite British breakfast food. I can cheerfully eat huevos rancheros with refried beans for breakfast, but I somehow find the thought of baked beans on toast repulsive.

I can't abide catchup on anything, although salsa on eggs sounds pretty good. It's a combination of taste and conditioning, I think.

[JBoy]

18. A small amount with scrambled eggs is acceptable. Otherwise no.

[babylonsister]

19. God's gift here; I love ketchup on eggs? Might be a NY thang? nt

[RavensChick]

34. It's more of a southern thang,

but it depends on what part of the south you're in.

[pengillian101]

20. Yuck to me.

Salsa with eggs sounds good, but I've not tried it yet.

My guy grosses me out with ketchup when he uses it on pork chops or pork steak.

Ketchup is strictly for hamburgers, hot dogs and french fries according to my taste. But I am Norwegian, so there's that. LOL.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. Only onhard fried eggs eaten in sandwiches.

And then, only when the edges of the egg get really crispy.

Salt.

Pepper.

Catsup/ketchup.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

24. Gross

But not as bad as one of my husband's niece's who puts ketchup on mashed potatoes. After I found out she did that, the next Thanksgiving I told her I didn't have any ketchup. That really turned my stomach!

[Angry Dragon]

26. I have never done it

Hot sauce is okay on eggs

[hippywife]

27. Only on scrambled or hard fried egg sammiches.

With a few dashes of hot sauce. Yum! Been eating that since I was a kid (well, not the hot sauce.) Bill thinks it's sick, too. I sometimes scrambled without anything but salt and pepa. Depends on my mood.

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

28. I've never eaten them that way myself, but I don't much care for ketchup in general.

However, if that's the way people like their eggs, that's the way they should eat them.

[mopinko]

29. chili sauce

my dad used to have a thing for homemade chili sauce, and would go to the farmstand and get all the stuff, and all of us would get into the act. i never ate it at the time, but i wish i had that recipe now.
i do love me some huevos rancheros.
i hate ketchup.

[Love Bug]

30. I don't, but my sister does.

Not my taste but not worth bothering about. Mox nix.

[wildeyed]

31. God's gift.

Fried egg sandwich with ketchup, mmmmm :)

[proudohioan]

32. Gross!

However, I do like yellow mustard on eggs, which almost everyone I know thinks is even grosser than ketchup on eggs.

[pengillian101]

38. "However, I do like yellow mustard on eggs"

Wow, never heard of mustard on eggs. Now, that is even weirder than ketchup on eggs!

Have you ever tried both condiments on eggs?

:-)

[RavensChick]

33. I've always put ketchup on my eggs,

and for the most part it's not all that bad. It doesn't matter what brand it is as long as you use a little and not drown the eggs in it.

Now, hot sauce on eggs for me is gross. Hot sauce on wings, yes, eggs, no way!

[hippywife]

37. I put both ketchup and hot sauce on mine.

When I was a kid and spending a lot of time with my grandmother, she always bought Brooks Tangy Ketchup and I got used to that. So now I have to add just a wee bit of hot sauce on top of the ketchup.

:hi:

[Kali]

35. blech

both my sons ate it on scrambled eggs as kids - and all the males in the house eat it on fried egg sandwiches.

I don't like fried egg sandwiches (probably because of the ketchup) but I can not eat scrambled eggs without salsa.

[cordelia]

36. Gotta go with gross

I did try once; just didn't enjoy the combination.

Edit: typo