Scrambled Eggs with ground pepper or ketchup?

[zinfamous]

I don't really know if I agree with that. Do you eat your pulled pork without any BBQ sauce?

Of course, I do--because anything but vinegar and initial brine would be a fucking SIN!

:awe:

(I'm from Eastern NC--don't get me started on the BBQ train. )

 

[Blackjack200]

Of course, I do--because anything but vinegar and initial brine would be a fucking SIN!

:awe:

(I'm from Eastern NC--don't get me started on the BBQ train. )

Thank God I'm atheist b/c vinegar and brine sounds like pickeled pork to me

Let me try another way... do you rub brown sugar on your baked ham?

 

[zinfamous]

Thank God I'm atheist b/c vinegar and brine sounds like pickeled pork to me

Let me try another way... do you rub brown sugar on your baked ham?

OK, so it's unnatural and insulting...how about that?
You mean you've never had BBQ before??

so sad. You need to get to NC and experience it first-hand. sauce does not belong on pulled pork. no sirree. no freaking way.

Ham is plenty flavorful without sugar. It just tastes like sugar with it. Dry cured ham destroys sugar baked ham any day. I'll eat the brown sugar stuff, but it's the worst way to prepare a ham.

 

[Blackjack200]

What do you think I am, some kind of naturalist

You're probably right about needing to get to South to have some real BBQ. Most of the BBQ I've had is just sweetened meat

 

[jupiter57]

Ketchup can go to hell. It isn't suitable for any purpose. I use black pepper, and if it wasn't fried in some kind of salty swine grease, a touch of salt.

This
Ketchup is for French Fries & as an ingredient in Cocktail Sauce ONLY!

And yes, Pepper, lots & lots of Black Pepper.

 

[zokudu]

Tabasco and pepper here.

 

[dainthomas]

So you eat them plain? No mustard, no relish, no 'krout?

Hebrew Nationals can be eaten plain and they're awesome. I typically put a little mustard on mine though. Ketchup? You might as well be a chicken finger, because ketchup is all you taste.

 

[lxskllr]

Hotdogs are great plain. I like plain, onions and jalapenos, kraut, or mustard all just about equally, and change up depending on mood. Ketchup is absolutely verboten though.

 

[zinfamous]

since we've mentioned hot dogs/frankfurters enough in this thread, obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM

 

[TXHokie]

What's with all the hate on ketchup? I find it to be a great American invention...right next to the internet. As with all good things, use in moderation.

 

[Kirby]

No hate against ketchup, but I don't put them on eggs. But even when I do use it, it's only light to moderate amounts.

 

[MotionMan]

I like eggs and I like tomato sauce but for some reason eggs and tomato sauce just don't go well together.

This.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Ketchup and tabasco for me. Or just tabasco.

No and No. Or just no.

MotionMan

 

[bfdd]

hear hear! ketchup needs to go away! drives me nuts when I make awesome hebrew national hotdogs and put mustard on mine (otherwise known as "the proper way") while my wife and daughter drown theirs in ketchup

because ketchup is fucking awesome and you suck. i mayo, ketchup and mustard my dogs.

 

[MotionMan]

hear hear! ketchup needs to go away! drives me nuts when I make awesome hebrew national hotdogs and put mustard on mine (otherwise known as "the proper way") while my wife and daughter drown theirs in ketchup

I know I use to use ketchup when I was a kid (like my kids do now), but now it is mustard on my hot dogs.

When do we grow up from ketchup on our hot dogs to mustard?

Is this universal?

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

For those who are reacting to the thought of ketchup and eggs with such vitriol, is it that you just hate ketchup or is the idea of combining these two things actually foreign to you?

I love ketchup. I put it on my burgers and fries. I even had it just last night with breaded fish filets.

I also love scrambled eggs.

But eggs and ketchup are two great taste that go terrible together.

MotionMan

 

[lxskllr]

I know I use to use ketchup when I was a kid (like my kids do now), but now it is mustard on my hot dogs.

When do we grow up from ketchup on our hot dogs to mustard?

Is this universal?

MotionMan

I think kids just don't know any better. They're offered ketchup, so they use ketchup. I used it when I was little, but it was always a bit less than satisfying. I think it would be interesting to challenge a kid on what actually tastes better in a side by side comparison. I bet they'd choose mustard if put to the test.

 

[MotionMan]

Ketchup on eggs is pretty white trash.

This.

And the first time I saw someone put tabasco on scrambled eggs (I was in grammar school at a friend's apartment after school), I did not even know what white trash was, but, as it turns out, that was exactly what I was thinking.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

The only thing I like on my scrabbled eggs is syrup, especially on my Matzah brei.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

I think kids just don't know any better. They're offered ketchup, so they use ketchup. I used it when I was little, but it was always a bit less than satisfying. I think it would be interesting to challenge a kid on what actually tastes better in a side by side comparison. I bet they'd choose mustard if put to the test.

With my kids (and my sister-in-law's kids), food is just a vehicle to get the ketchup in their mouthes. They love it!

My oldest nephew in particular, absolutely f-ing drowns his hot dogs and buns in ketchup. Most of it ends up on the plate or his shirt, but there is nothing we can do to get him to put a reasonable amount on his hot dog, or g-d forbid, try mustard.

We cannot get any of them to touch mustard.

MotionMan

 

[shiner]

anyone who puts ketchup on eggs should be shot.

 

[lxskllr]

With my kids (and my sister-in-law's kids), food is just a vehicle to get the ketchup in their mouthes. They love it!

My oldest nephew in particular, absolutely f-ing drowns his hot dogs and buns in ketchup. Most of it ends up on the plate or his shirt, but there is nothing we can do to get him to put a reasonable amount on his hot dog, or g-d forbid, try mustard.

We cannot get any of them to touch mustard.

MotionMan

My daughter has my disregard for ketchup. I'm not sure how much of that is my influence, and how much is her personal taste. She's a fairly adventurous eater, and while she likes some trashy stuff, her taste is generally more refined than her peers.

 

[bfdd]

I think kids just don't know any better. They're offered ketchup, so they use ketchup. I used it when I was little, but it was always a bit less than satisfying. I think it would be interesting to challenge a kid on what actually tastes better in a side by side comparison. I bet they'd choose mustard if put to the test.

this is absolutely wrong. ketchup is sweet, mustard is sour. Kids love sweet more than sour, so ketchup wins.

To all the ketchup haters saying it overwhelms other flavors, you suck at pouring or measuring how much sauce to use. Stop blaming the sauce for your suckiness.

 

[dbk]

just some salt

 

[zinfamous]

I know I use to use ketchup when I was a kid (like my kids do now), but now it is mustard on my hot dogs.

When do we grow up from ketchup on our hot dogs to mustard?

Is this universal?

MotionMan

your tasteubgs actually do mature. Kids taste things completely differently than we do as adults--the bitter profile is very overpowering and overrides many other subtle taste characters. (makes sense evolutionally, as this is tied to many of the poisons found in wild-growing berries and such).

Sweet is generally preferred in young, undeveloped tastebuds b/c it is linked towards a high-nutrition diet (for early hominids). Certainly not good for us today, as we now depend on cheap, processed, sugar-ridden foods and we've been ravaged by diabetes, but this was essential for early hominids. We learn, at a young age--"to seek sweet," as it is tied to the safer foods that grow on trees.

anyway, these tastes mature as you age, and most people move on. I think that a lot of people retain those childhood prejudices--olives are always YUCKY! as they were when they were kids, for example, and never allow themselves to experience what things actually taste like. They stick to sweet and refuse to experience new things, so they continue to enjoy ketchup.

Even in the entire city of Chicago (or any self-respecting hotdog establishment), it is tolerable for kids to ask for ketchup on their dogs. "Adults" who request kethup are kicked out and refused service, though.