Do you refrigerate ketchup (catsup)?

[Rab]

I was just munching on some hot dogs and spotted that the ketchup (catsup for our trans-atlantic viewers) bottle claims that it should be refrigerated.

Why? It\'s not like it\'s going to go off, it doesn\'t need preservatives because it\'s composed entirely of the stuff.

So, do you or don\'t you?

Rab (just killing time)

 

[Ritual]

I certainly do! I think it tastes better when it\'s cool.

 

[Fizl]

I don\'t, I dont like it when its too cold. As to it going off, I suppose you may get the odd bacteria in there, but the odd one or two won\'t hurt ya (maybe in the millions ). Good to stimulate the old immune system

Shaz

 

[Sand Rat]

Hmmm - well since most of the brine of pickeled fish (Kei sap) we have here has been in the desert for at least a month sitting in the sand, what would be the point? Its already a nice golden brown.

 

[Chrispy]

Well, after mom left that giant Sam\'s Hienz bottle in the garage and the sun got to it, it made a viscous, brown bland sauce much like barbecue sauce without flavor.. So I try to hide the bottle in the fridge whenever possible. The scary thing for me is, if my Green Ketchup ever grew mold and went bad, how would I know?


PS: Horde all tomato products in cans and bottles, supposedly the price of fresh ones is going up because of the storms in Florida destroying alot of crops, or somesuch...

 

[supervike]

very good question Rab...

I do keep my ketchup in the fridge, but am not adverse to having it left sitting out. Mayonaisse, however is a completely different animal....lol

BTW, have any of you ever tried the \'green ketchup\' they were trying to hock a while back? Although it tasted exactly the same, I couldn\'t bring myself to eat that baby poop looking garbage...lol:|~

 

[Ritual]

I never have and never will buy anything but red ketchup! There\'s yellow, green and purple ketchup and I can\'t see the point! None of them look apetizing and if they taste the same... why chose the least apetizing one? ???

 

[Rab]

I can\'t believe there are so many sauce refrigerators here; perverts the lot of you

We don\'t get enough sun here to make ketchup go off, as Billy Connolly said \"I\'m so pale, it takes me a week in the sun to go white\".

Good point about the green ketchup though, how would you know...

Is it spelled \"catsup\" in the U.S or did that word come from some previously unused part of my brain?

The reason that ketchups are available in different colours is so that fashion gurus need never again feel the pain of pouring red sauce onto green foodstuff.

Or not.

Rab.

 

[supervike]

catsup...ketchup...

Originally posted by Rab

Is it spelled \"catsup\" in the U.S or did that word come from some previously unused part of my brain?

Rab.

Ketchup seems to be the prevailing term used in my part of the country. Someone saying \"catsup\" might be strung up and tortured as one of them \'educated\' folk. lol

 

[Dragonsreach]

Don\'t use it. We prefer Lea & Perrins table sauce. Got that Worcester[size=-2]*[/size] Sauce \"kick\" to it.

[size=-2]*[/size]That\'s pronounced \"Wooster\" for the Americans reading this.

 

[Fizl]

DR,

try straight worcestershire sauce on chips from the chippie, better than the table sauce any day

Shaz

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Fizl
DR,

try straight worcestershire sauce on chips from the chippie, better than the table sauce any day

Shaz

Yeah, but that\'s a London thing. Round here it\'s Mushy peas or Curry Sauce. Or some thick brown chemical that vaguely resembles gravy.

 

[Fizl]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Yeah, but that\'s a London thing. Round here it\'s Mushy peas or Curry Sauce. Or some thick brown chemical that vaguely resembles gravy.

Curry sauce is a london thing, or occasionally baked beans, only know one other person who likes woosie sauce on chips though

Gravy on chips is nice if it actually has flavour, not that nasty bisto powder that just makes a thick brown liquid with no taste

Shaz

 

[finn17]

Why waste fridge space?

Bottle of ketchup takes up beer room???

 

[supervike]

but but but...

Originally posted by finn17
Bottle of ketchup takes up beer room???

I thought you UKers drank that stuff warm!!lollol

 

[TAB Studio]

Tomatos here in FL are 1.98 per pound and that was last week.

 

[sniffles]

Originally posted by TAB Studio
Tomatos here in FL are 1.98 per pound and that was last week.

Good thing I don\'t like tomatoes.

The discussion between Fizl and DR reminds me of regional food oddities I\'ve run into. When I moved to Oregon from Texas 16 yrs. ago, I\'d never heard of putting malt vinegar on french fries (chips for the Brits). Some people put ranch dressing (a kind of salad cream) on their fries (chips) too.

And no self-respecting Texan would have been caught dead eating a pizza with pineapple on it, which is on every pizzeria menu here in the Northwest.

???

 

[Rab]

Originally posted by sniffles

Good thing I don\'t like tomatoes.

But without tomatoes there\'d be no pizza and I don\'t think I\'d want to live in a world like that.

The discussion between Fizl and DR reminds me of regional food oddities I\'ve run into. When I moved to Oregon from Texas 16 yrs. ago, I\'d never heard of putting malt vinegar on french fries (chips for the Brits). Some people put ranch dressing (a kind of salad cream) on their fries (chips) too.

In parts of Scotland (ie the civilised bit that I live in) you get salt, vinegar & sauce mmmmmm... The sauce is a very special blend of 1 part brown sauce to 3 billion parts vinegar.

I\'m hungry now.

Rab.

 

[dauber22]

Originally posted by sniffles

And no self-respecting Texan would have been caught dead eating a pizza with pineapple on it, which is on every pizzeria menu here in the Northwest.

Hey now! Wait a minute! I\'m a former Texan and I like... Oh wait! You said \"self-respecting\" didn\'t you? Oh, well, then.... never mind
lol

 

[t_haye2]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Don\'t use it. We prefer Lea & Perrins table sauce. Got that Worcester[size=-2]*[/size] Sauce \"kick\" to it.

[size=-2]*[/size]That\'s pronounced \"Wooster\" for the Americans reading this.

typical, you northern gits all eat brown sause, while red is mor epopular down south....well...according to richard and Judy(daytime telly show) that is....