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We had some fun popcorn and usual recipes a couple a blogs ago. Now lets have some fun with ketchup. Let me begin by stating that ketchup is one of my favorite condiments. It is healthy and tasty and can be used on lots of items to add and/or change flavor. While I am not normally brand choosy, I am when it comes to ketchup. I only like Heinz ketchup. This is not an advertisement for Heinz; it merely is a statement of fact. Now here’s some odd uses of ketchup.

(1) My youngest daughter (she’s 23) won’t eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup. When I asked why, she explained that growing up she frequently ate hot dogs with ketchup along with macaroni and cheese. Somehow the ketchup always found its way into the macaroni and cheese. Now, as an adult she will not eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup.

(2) Growing up I can’t recall my Dad eating eggs without ketchup on them. He also would spread ketchup on saltine crackers; he did the same with mustard.

(3) As a youngster, I had a friend a who family used ketchup as their sauce on spaghetti. Her mother would cook the pasta and put it in a bowl on the dining table. Then the family just took bottles of ketchup and poured it over the spaghetti. When my friend learned of “real” sauce for spaghetti, she was surprised. She had grown up thinking spaghetti sauce was ketchup.

How about you? Any odd recipes or uses of ketchup?