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What Is It With Cheap Ketchup?

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July 09, 2021, 12:15 PM
BigSwede
What Is It With Cheap Ketchup?
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Originally posted by Wayniac:
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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Ketchup is ketchup, unless you are in Germany


We always stock this at home:


Oh Wow!! Where do you get it? Making me miss Curry Wurst you could find everywhere



July 09, 2021, 12:36 PM
Wayniac
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Originally posted by BigSwede:
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Originally posted by Wayniac:
quote:
Originally posted by BigSwede:
Ketchup is ketchup, unless you are in Germany


We always stock this at home:


Oh Wow!! Where do you get it? Making me miss Curry Wurst you could find everywhere


Amazon!



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July 09, 2021, 01:13 PM
BigSwede
Oh boy, they have Senf too. On order



July 09, 2021, 01:36 PM
bobandmikako
I'm also a fan of German ketchup (and mustard), but we normally have some American ketchup in the house. My wife and son like it. I don't normally use it, and I doubt I could tell the difference between Heinz, Hunts, Del Monte, or any of the other common brands.



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July 09, 2021, 03:03 PM
Flash-LB
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Originally posted by bobandmikako:
I'm also a fan of German ketchup (and mustard), but we normally have some American ketchup in the house. My wife and son like it. I don't normally use it, and I doubt I could tell the difference between Heinz, Hunts, Del Monte, or any of the other common brands.


I eat very little ketchup, maybe a cup of it a year and I can definitely taste a difference between brands and it's a pretty large difference.
July 09, 2021, 03:36 PM
GT-40DOC
My tastes have changed on ketchup, and I take Heinz and add Tobasco sauce and Horseradish to it. Sort of a hot and spicy cocktail sauce/ketchup. It works for me.
July 09, 2021, 08:13 PM
maxwayne
Brooks is a bit spicier than Heinz.
July 09, 2021, 08:39 PM
Edmond
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Originally posted by SigM4:
Whataburger ketchup only in our house.


Regular or spicy?

I really like their spicy ketchup.


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July 09, 2021, 10:45 PM
OKCGene
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Originally posted by Edmond:
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Originally posted by SigM4:
Whataburger ketchup only in our house.


Regular or spicy?

I really like their spicy ketchup.


Whataburger regular ketchup here, and I also have Whataburger Mustard in the fridge. Good stuff.
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July 10, 2021, 04:30 PM
mark_a
We don't use very much ketchup but I do like to make some from beets we grow.

This fall I'm going to smoke a bunch of beets and see how that works with the ketchup recipe. I'm thinking it will give it a good twang...
July 10, 2021, 05:11 PM
gpbst3
A local amusement park Kennywood was bought out by a Mexican company a while back. They tried to change the Heinz ketchup and french fry cheese. The uproar made it to the news channels and they changed it back. Pittsburgh and Heinz ketchup fo hand in hand.

I also noticed many restaurants are switching to generic sugar packed. I normally don’t care about generic brands but its noticeable with sweet n low.


July 10, 2021, 05:27 PM
Gustofer
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Originally posted by mark_a:
We don't use very much ketchup but I do like to make some from beets we grow.

This fall I'm going to smoke a bunch of beets and see how that works with the ketchup recipe. I'm thinking it will give it a good twang...

Do you have a recipe that you can share?


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July 10, 2021, 05:43 PM
Jimbo54
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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
My tastes have changed on ketchup, and I take Heinz and add Tobasco sauce and Horseradish to it. Sort of a hot and spicy cocktail sauce/ketchup. It works for me.


I mix Heinz ketchup with Heinz chili sauce and add horseradish and finely chopped celery for an excellent cocktail sauce for shrimp and crab cocktails. Yum

Jim


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July 10, 2021, 05:46 PM
sns3guppy
Ironically, ketchup was invented for one purpose: to cover the flavor of rotting food. And now we're ketchup snobs. It was originally made from mushrooms, not tomatoes.

The middle east, especially Saudi Arabia and UAE and the region, is obsessed with ketchup. Everything ketchup. Ketchup ramen noodles. Ketchup potato chips. Ketchup everything. None of it tastes like ketchup. It sells, but it's disgusting, if one is looking for actual (american) ketchup.

Heinz is available, but even that doesn't taste the same. But then why would it? One isn't stateside. Still, if one goes looking for familiar ketchup, one would be (and is) disappointed.

Given a choice, I'll take fry sauce or just mayo, instead. Or course, there are a lot of forms of mayo, too...
July 10, 2021, 07:05 PM
P220 Smudge
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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Ironically, ketchup was invented for one purpose: to cover the flavor of rotting food.


When you get right down to it, all sauces were.


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July 10, 2021, 07:25 PM
hberttmank
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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Ironically, ketchup was invented for one purpose: to cover the flavor of rotting food.






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July 10, 2021, 07:29 PM
doublesharp
Red Gold ketchup suits me.


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July 11, 2021, 12:08 AM
sjtill
I had no idea one could get German curry ketchup.

OMG what memories that brings back. It was the Zehlendorfer Rathauskeller, 1966. Kurrywurst mit Kartoffelsalat und ein Pils. Now maybe I need to find some Berliner Weisse and raspberry syrup.

I ordered the Hela two-pack to get spicy and sweet. Thanks Wayniac!!!

BTW my wife will never buy Heinz Ketchup, for reasons mentioned above.


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July 11, 2021, 02:19 AM
46and2
I heard only commies like Hunts.
July 11, 2021, 09:28 AM
BillF
[QUOTE]Originally posted by sns3guppy:
It was originally made from mushrooms, not tomatoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29u_FejNuks

Here is another great video by Jas Townsend on how to make it.