It’s a thing in the US. See https://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-etiquette . Personally I think the threshold for ketchup on hot dogs being acceptable is 8 years old.
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Congratulations. Talented!!
I’m very much ketchup on a bacon sandwich and HP Sauce on a sausage sandwich man. Though will have ketchup if needs be.
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Perfectly acceptable on a hot sausage butty. But, on the rare chance that there’s sausage leftovers, a cold butty, with HP Barbeque sauce, is pretty decent.
I had a cousin who put catsup/ketchup on her eggs! I’m not sure why I often think of it as catsup.
More of the same, from “writing explained”.
…And a “Mad Men” reference, which might actually explain why I think catsup, since that might be around the time I last bought it! JK
Also
“According to a Heinz spokesperson, Henry John Heinz first brought his product to market as “Heinz Tomato Catsup,” but changed the spelling early on to distinguish it from competitors. And Dan Jurafsky tells us that Del Monte did not switch spellings until 1988, after it became clear that ketchup was the spelling of choice for American consumers. (Hunt’s went with ketchup significantly earlier, he says.)”
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I generally can’t imagine a cooked breakfast withour ketchup. Although I’ve given up trying to get it on trips to America - it doesnt seem to compute with staff.
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I can imagine it on that shredded potato version of hash browns, and on corned beef hash, now that I think about it.
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I like ketchup on scrambled eggs, sausage, scrapple.
Strange, I find here in the US ketchup is regularly available at breakfast. In low-end spots it’s always on the table. In high-end spots it’s generally “house-made” and delivered in individual ramekins.
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I got chatting to a spider this afternoon. Said he was a web designer.
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List for the next few days.
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Back in the day, one of my hangover cures was a bacon sandwich with ketchup and sweet pickle relish, but it had to be my aunt Dixie’s spicy homemade ketchup.
Or on an egg sandwich.
We’ve just been outside to join in the nationwide round of applause to show appreciation for the workers in the National Health Service. Folks from two other houses in the road were also out there (there are only six houses in the road). And there’s fireworks going off - apparently an initiative from a local Facebook group. I found it quite moving. And a bit odd having to shout to neighbours, rather than being near them to chat normally.
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My good news for today was rearranging my spice cabinet after nearly two years of letting it go haywire.
Routine day off for me as Thursdays usually are. Feels weird to not be going out tonight.
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We wore out the toy section before Christmas so it would have been useless.
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This reminds me of an anecdote from the great Oliver Sacks, whose passing left a hole in humankind that shall forever remain unfilled. He recalled, to a entomologist, a philosophical conversation he’d had with a talking spider whom he’d hallucinated, decades earlier, during a period of drug experimentation. The entomologist replied, “Ah, yes, I know the species.”
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Whhhaaattt? Ketchup on scrambled is often seen in the U.S. I dont like it, but my sister does, as does her husband.
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DH and I went for an 8 block walk today. Walked down two blocks of Geary Blvd, usually heavy car and foot traffic. Today, quiet. We passed maybe 3 people, all of whom veered to far side of the wide sidewalk. On side streets, passed 2 people, both of whom walked into the street. Arriving home, we sat out on our steps for a few minutes. A neighbor across the street came out of his house and yelled a greeting from his steps, adding a question if we had enough food supplies. A few chuckles and he’s back inside. We normally retrieve both our trash cans and a neighbor’s, and today the email thanks also asked if we had all of our needs covered. People looking out for people.
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I’ve often wondered what it might be like to live there, and now I know!
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