In college I devoured bowls of plain spaghetti and Heinz ketchup. Cheap, fast, filling.
I’ve been a little turned off ketchup since high school.
I ate a fair amount of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (Kraft Dinner in Canada) or grocery store house label Mac & Cheese in my 20s. A lot of Canadians like ketchup with their Kraft Dinner or grilled cheese.
I used to eat instant ramen, mixing the flavour packet with peanut butter, and straining out most of the liquid before stirring in the pb + powder.
Or I’d make instant ramen, drain, add a beaten egg, some of the flavour packet and mushrooms.
Yep, myself as well. Another was adding ketchup or apple sauce to scrambled eggs which was introduced to me by college friends from Buffalo, NY.
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Applesauce!?!
Why would someone ruin perfectly good scrambled eggs with applesauce?
Ketchup sure.
What goes on in Buffalo?
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OMG I missed that. Def a WTF moment for me, too. But I’m the great outlier who also doesn’t like tomatoes in their eggs. I find it makes the eggs hard and watery, and serves neither ingredient.
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LOl, crazy youth. Back then I wouldn’t turn down my noise at much food wise if I was hungry.
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My college years weren’t about eating well. My food budget was a total barter.
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I understand. I wasn’t exactly snacking on oysters in uni, either 
Ramen, Kraft mac & cheese, or just a slice of bread w/cheese were my usual dinners.
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ha! When you know you know.
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Another outlier here. Tomato just doesn’t work with eggs.
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Eggs with Maters Haters Unite! 
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Sorry, but I’m with the 1.42 billion people who think otherwise.
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No need to apologize. Some of us are extra.
Was it someone here on HO who linked to this 1+ hour documentary on the origins of pasta? It might have been someone on another forum I’m in. It looks interesting.
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Have you tried Strapatsada?
I like tomato frittatas and tomato feta omelettes.
It’s the sugar part of ketchup that doesn’t appeal to me, not the tomato part.
Today, I would wholeheartedly agree that sugar vs tomato is the significant difference. Using ketchup today has a very different place in any number of meals. As does the amount of unnecessary sugar given the readily avail alternatives/options. But, I do enjoy tomatoes in plenty of baked egg dishes.
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