Best ketchup

[buffcomic]

Well summers here and i just got home from a BBQ where a friend of my friend freaked cause I put Ketchup on my Kielbasa (insert laugh here) Then we got to discussing Ketchup...so heres the question

what company makes the best Ketchup?

And what do you put it on?

My personal fav is Heinz but thats me

[blakesnake00]

Sorry to be the first post here ,but I HATE ketchup!I know its wierd but I just never have liked it at all.I also dont like mayo,mustard,miracle whip...you get it .To make it really nuts I dont mind a little cocktail sauce on my shrimp,but I make it myself and it has Ketchup,horseradish,lemon juice,wostershire sauce,tobasco and salt and pepper,bust reciepe ever.So I do only use Heinz in it so I guess Heinz is the answer as the best ketchup.Thank you for my letting me rant.

[Hudson]

Anything spelled Catsup..I pass
Heinz
And fyi:

http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhistory/a/ketchuphistory.htm

[Sinn Fein]

Sorry to be the first post here ,but I HATE ketchup!I know its wierd but I just never have liked it at all.I also dont like mayo,mustard,miracle whip...you get it .To make it really nuts I dont mind a little cocktail sauce on my shrimp,but I make it myself and it has Ketchup,horseradish,lemon juice,wostershire sauce,tobasco and salt and pepper,bust reciepe ever.So I do only use Heinz in it so I guess Heinz is the answer as the best ketchup.Thank you for my letting me rant.

I don't care for ketchup, or mustard, or mayo either.

[Hudson]

I don't care for ketchup, or mustard, or mayo either.
Sacriledge!

[buffcomic]

I could bathe in it....

[distortion9]

Here's what you do....

1. Roast some jalapenos

2. Fine dice some shallots and garlic, quick sautee in small amount of olive oil

3. Peel and fine dice on the jalapenos

4. Shallots, Garlic and Jalapenos into some Heinz 57 stir and chill 1/2 hour.

5. Enjoy

[Chino Kapone]

I fucking love lycopene!!! (sp?)

What the fuck is the difference between Ketchup and Catsup? "whaa"

[weeniewawa]

heinz 57 is some good stuff

[B54]

I fucking love lycopene!!! (sp?)

What the fuck is the difference between Ketchup and Catsup? "whaa"


Ketchup was one of the earliest names given to this condiment, so spelled in Charles Lockyer’s book of 1711, An Account of the Trade in India: “Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China”. Nobody seems quite sure where it comes from, and I won’t bore you with a long disquisition concerning the scholarly debate on the matter, which is reflected in the varied origins given in major dictionaries. It’s likely to be from a Chinese dialect, imported into English through Malay. The original was a kind of fish sauce, though the modern Malay and Indonesian version, with the closely related name kecap, is a sweet soy sauce.

Like their Eastern forerunners, Western ketchups were dipping sauces. I’m told the first ketchup recipe appeared in Elizabeth Smith’s book The Compleat Housewife of 1727 and that it included anchovies, shallots, vinegar, white wine, sweet spices (cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg), pepper and lemon peel. Not a tomato in sight, you will note — tomato ketchup was not introduced until about a century later, in the US, and caught on only slowly. It was more usual to base the condiment on mushrooms, or sometimes walnuts.

The confusion about names started even before Charles Lockyer wrote about it, since there is an entry dated 1690 in the Dictionary of the Canting Crew which gives it as catchup, which is another Anglicisation of the original Eastern term. Catchup was used much more in North America than in Britain: it was still common in the middle years of the nineteenth century, as in a story in Scribner’s Magazine in 1859: “I do not object to take a few slices of cold boiled ham ... with a little mushroom catchup, some Worcester sauce, and a pickle or so”. Indeed, catchup continued to appear in American works for some decades and is still to be found on occasion.

There were lots of other spellings, too, of which catsup is the best known, a modification of catchup. You can blame Jonathan Swift for it if you like, since he used it first in 1730: “And, for our home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer”. [Caveer is caviar; botargo is a fish-based relish made of the roe of the mullet or tunny.] That form was also once common in the US but is much less so these days, at least on bottle labels: all the big US manufacturers now call their product ketchup.


Best ketchup is McDonalds packet ketchup.

[al885]

reminds me of when mr burns was in a grocery store and couldnt decide between ketchup or catsup.



kyder ketchup

[Hoagie]

What the fuck is the difference between Ketchup and Catsup? "whaa"
Ketchup is a delicious and essential part of anyone's diet. Catsup is for queers.

There's no question here. It begins and ends with Heinz.

[BeerBelly]

I like heinz but not the spoiled brat rich kid that is associated
with it

[BIV]

Ketchup is gross. Mayo for the win.

[GoatAss]

to me there is only 1 brand and that is Heinz. every other brand is bad Imo.

[TreeFortRichard]

Heinz is the best Ketchup, but we have a grocery store chain her called Hannaford. They make a store brand ketchup that IS heinz. IDK how they did it but I have taste tested over and over b/c I couldn't believe it, but it is the same color, viscosity, ingredient order, etc...It tastes just like it...It is a really good store brand so I buy that now b/c it is like $3.00 cheaper and that's almost a gallon of gas :)

[flyerfan116]

Have to pick Heinz as the favorite but I don't mind Hunt's either

[flyerfan116]

Heinz is the best Ketchup, but we have a grocery store chain her called Hannaford. They make a store brand ketchup that IS heinz. IDK how they did it but I have taste tested over and over b/c I couldn't believe it, but it is the same color, viscosity, ingredient order, etc...It tastes just like it...It is a really good store brand so I buy that now b/c it is like $3.00 cheaper and that's almost a gallon of gas :)

more than likley it is Heinz ketchup, alot of the store brands are made by big manufacturers and packaged in generic labels

[Stormrider666]

Even though I only use it for two things(fries and the base for my burger sauce) it has to be Heinz.

[Biff Hardslab]

I refuse to take my younger brother (he's 34 yrs old) to dinner because he puts ketchup on everything. I watched him dump it on a piece of prime rib. He ****zes out if you say anything to him about it "I BOUGHT IT!!, I'LL EAT IT THE WAY I LIKE IT!!" I brought 2 1/2 lbs of Portillo's Itallian beef all the way from Chicago to Memphis. The first thing he did was dump ketchup on it.

Its good for potatoes and hamburgers.

[fandango86]

I will only use Heinz - I only put it on Burgers, Hot Dogs, french fries, and home fries, but not hash browns. If Heinz is not available I will go plain for fries and home fries, mustard only for hot dogs, and will completely pass on the burger. A burger is absolutely inedible without Heinz Ketchup on it.

My wife puts it on a lot of stuff I consider weird - the two weirdest being Eggs and Mac and Cheese.

[Stormrider666]

I refuse to take my younger brother (he's 34 yrs old) to dinner because he puts ketchup on everything. I watched him dump it on a piece of prime rib. He ****zes out if you say anything to him about it "I BOUGHT IT!!, I'LL EAT IT THE WAY I LIKE IT!!" I brought 2 1/2 lbs of Portillo's Itallian beef all the way from Chicago to Memphis. The first thing he did was dump ketchup on it.

Its good for potatoes and hamburgers.

My brother does the same exact thing. In fact, I pulled a great joke on him one time. We went to eat at a upscale seafood place, that didn't keep ketchup in bottles on the table. After we had placed our order, I told him they didn't serve ketchup there. The look on his was face was fucking priceless. He seriously even thought about going to McDonald's down the road and bringing it back to the restaurant.

[buffcomic]

I like scrambled eggs and Ketchup....

[angrybeerguy]

I like scrambled eggs and Ketchup....

x2

[DJ Evel Ed]

Frank Rike.




































yes I know Reich...REICH.

[25133WhooOoAH]

Ketchup and Scramby Eggs rule..But that's it for me...It ruins burgers IMO.

[roche]

My brother does the same exact thing. In fact, I pulled a great joke on him one time. We went to eat at a upscale seafood place, that didn't keep ketchup in bottles on the table. After we had placed our order, I told him they didn't serve ketchup there. The look on his was face was fucking priceless. He seriously even thought about going to McDonald's down the road and bringing it back to the restaurant.

From now on only take him McDonald's.

[Lil'GlubGlub]

the only thing better than heinz ketchup is heinz chili sauce

[DanaReevesLungs]

Heinz FTW!

I've put ketchup in my red beans before...it wasn't bad.

My wife hates how often we go through 64oz bottles of the shit like it's kool-aid to a schwoogie.

[Sam_Adams]

I fucking love lycopene!!! (sp?)

What the fuck is the difference between Ketchup and Catsup? "whaa"

Well catsup is the real word but Heinz made it popular spelling it phonetically by mispelling it on their bottle, ketchup.

I don't ever write/type out "ketchup" because it's not right.

I prefer Heinz catsup but if I had Heinz 57 I'd put that on everything.

[ih8Uboo-boo]

I prefer mustard (gotta be spicy brown though) to Ketchup, but if I use it its Heinz's

[flyerfan116]

Well catsup is the real word but Heinz made it popular spelling it phonetically by mispelling it on their bottle, ketchup.

I don't ever write/type out "ketchup" because it's not right.

I prefer Heinz catsup but if I had Heinz 57 I'd put that on everything.

errrrr wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup

Etymology

[edit] Early uses in English
The word entered the English language in England during the late seventeenth century, appearing in print as catchup and later as ketchup. The following is a list of early quotations collected by the Oxford English Dictionary.

1690, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew
Catchup: a high East-India Sauce.
1711, Charles Lockyer, An Account of the Trade in India 128
Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China.
1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean Wks. 1755 IV. I. 142
And, for our home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer.
1748, Sarah Harrison, The Housekeeper's Pocket-Book and Compleat Family Cook. i. (ed. 4) 2,
I therefore advise you to lay in a Store of Spices, ... neither ought you to be without ... Kitchup, or Mushroom Juice.
1751, Mrs. Hannah Glasse, Cookery Bk. 309
It will taste like foreign Catchup.
1817, George Gordon Byron, Beppo viii,
Buy in gross ... Ketchup, Soy, Chili~vinegar, and Harvey.
1832, Vegetable Substances Used for the Food of Man 333
One ... application of mushrooms is ... converting them into the sauce called Catsup.
1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1849) 91/1
Some lamb chops (breaded, with plenty of ketchup).
1845, Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery v. (1850) 136 (L.)
Walnut catsup.
1862, Macmillan's Magazine. Oct. 466
He found in mothery catsup a number of yellowish globular bodies.
1874, Mordecai C. Cooke, Fungi; Their Nature, Influence and Uses 89
One important use to which several ... fungi can be applied, is the manufacture of ketchup.
The spelling catsup seems to have appeared first from the pen of Jonathan Swift, in 1730.

[maz]

I like heinz but not the spoiled brat rich kid that is associated
with it

Yep
I tried to switch brands years ago because of her
but couldn't find any as good

scrambled eggs, omelots, burgers and fries
that's about all I use it on

[Three Hole Puncher]

Gotta plug the local...

http://www.redgold.com/images/products/RG%20Ketcup%20-%20Plastic%2024oz_small.jpg

Red Gold.

Made in Indiana. I'd never heard of it until I moved out here. Good stuff... more 'tomatoey' than the usual... not as syrupy sweet. Try it if you can find it.

[Mommadeez4u]

I'm no organic weenie, but this stuff is fucking yummy:

http://www.consorzio.com/catalog/images/Organic_Ketchup.JPG

[DeltaPin]

Heinz, tried some others, but always go back.

[Sinn Fein]

Yep
I tried to switch brands years ago because of her
but couldn't find any as good

scrambled eggs, omelots, burgers and fries
that's about all I use it on

If I liked ketchup, I'd use another brand because I refuse to give a cent to that bitch.

[Steve McQueen]

Hunt's.

Or is it Hunts?

[jackjack]

Hunt's.

Or is it Hunts?


That's the only brand I don't care for. Too sweet.