10 days to pitchers and catchers.
Should we do a daily count down?

Growing up I was a huge ketchup fan. Then in college I kind of got snobby and went with mustard. Nowadays I like both.

Heinz field has a giant bottle that tips towards the scoreboard as it digitally fills with red each time Heinz Ward makes a catch. It's pretty cool to see. Needless to say, it was quiet yesteday. : / Can almost count on one hand til the mitts start poppin'.

My girlfriend's entire family prefers Hunts over Heinz. I don't get it. Then again the only thing I use ketchup for are french fries.

Mostly fries for me too though I'll put it on a burger too (along with God Knows what else I have handy...lol).

i'm going to sounds as nutty as thelarmis but i hate ketchup.
i spent much of my childhood having to check my hamburger at the drive through at mcd or bk to make sure it did not have ketchup on it.
i am sure i have actually eaten ketchup a few times when it has been mixed in with something, but i hate the smell of it and the few times i have accidentally eaten it by itself.

Having only recently figured out that tomatoes are bad for reflux, I've further limited my intake of ketchup.

Otherwise I'd be an Acidic Jew .... (ba dum bum) ...

Oh, and I was in Ireland about 10 years ago and had "ketchup" with my fries. Yes it was red, but it was gross. Cack! Just thinking about it again gives me the willies.

Yeah, all it takes it trying ketchup in a far away land to make you appreciate the goodness of Heinz...or Hunt's for all I know.

Heinz over Hunt's all the way, but brand aside, it has got to be high fructose corn syrup free. It tastes so much better, I can barely stand to eat ketchup with HFCS in it anymore, and its tough, because I put ketchup on everything.

[7] I had some high school friends of Irish descent who insisted that their mom's idea of spaghetti with sauce was to boil the spaghetti, drain it, and then put ketchup on it. I never saw such a meal prepared, or eaten, but they ate some strange stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.

[5] hey, who you callin' nutty?! ; )

i actually dig ketchup! no, really, i do. i don't eat it a ton, but i'm a fan. and Heinz, is easily the best. i don't care for any other brand, though i'll use it if that's what the place has.

i do hate when folks call it "catsup". what's up with dat???

[6] hilarious, diane! i might have to try and squeeze that joke in at a family meal when i go visit them in a coupla weeks. (don't worry, i'll give you credit!)

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Oh I've been using that one for many years ... feel free to use it. :-)

[6] Oy! Though I gotta say, I do relish puns.

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Ummm .... we're not talking relish, we're talking ketchup ...

Have you always had problems with condiments? :-)

Heinz over Hunts. Hunts always tasted like ketchup substitute. It adversely changed the taste of food.

Heinz makes an organic ketchup that's pretty good. No HFCS.

[14] They never make the containers big enough, and they usually break. I just wish I could show my buns. . .

Interesting factoid about the Heinz bottle. Supposedly the "57" etched in the glass just as it starts to narrow is the "sweet spot" in terms of dispensing. If you tap on that spot, the ketchup will supposedly flow quite nicely on its own.

D, that IS so cool. I only heard about that a few years ago but anutha reason to love that bottle.

the "57" is indeed the sweet spot. One swift open palmed slap, and the ketchup flows right out.

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More info on the ketchup and its bottle
http://www.heinz.com/our-company/press-room/trivia.aspx

And a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon, with a ketchup reference at 3:35 or so ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fP9eTa0SG0

Yankees stocking up on ex-Tiger OFs?
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/02/yankees-sign-marcus-thames.html

[21] I always liked Thames. Not that he was a great player, but watching his first ML hit be a homer in as a Yankee off Randy Johnson was pretty cool.

I remember when I was a kid, I loved Heinz. It tasted like sugar, and all the other ketchups--or catsups--tasted like gross tomatoes.

Now, though, they all seem to taste like sugar.

Hunts over Heinz is just some contrarian BS.

I can see why someone wouldn't like ketchup. It's essential for me for some things but I'm appalled at it on other things, like scrambled eggs for instance.

this thread is dead, but i had to add something...

i was just teaching a brother and sister at their house (drums) and when i walked thru their dining room, there was a bottle of Hunt's out. ugh. that was weird with today's post, so i had to mention it...

[24] i love ketchup on scrambled eggs and only eat 'em that way! but just ask Ms. O and RI Yank about my eating habits, so you'll have that... : )

Haven't used ketchup much since I have bbq sauce. Fries get the old bay treatment.

BTW, Heinz > Hunts.

FRACK! I always miss the good threads!!!

Heinz > Hunts all the way. It this point it's mind over matter.

But I don't use ketchup anymore unless I don't have any choice. My condiment of choice is A-1 Steak Sauce. Makes Hamburgers Taste Like Steakburgers® and all that, but yes indeed, it blows ketchup out the water. I even prefer soy sauce over ketchup; Kikkoman is the regular store-brand choice (La Choy is weak).

Also a habit of mine in regard to burgers: always toast the bun, and always stick a bunch of crispy french fries underneath the bun; if you prefer cheeseburgers, line the fries up underneath the cheese so they stay firmly on the burger when the cheese is melted. If you gotta put anything else on top of the burger though, put the fries under the burger and the rest of the stuff on top; tomato (thinly sliced), bacon, lettuce (romaine of course), red onions (accept no substitute!), more bacon, pickles and cheese. Dash a little soy sauce and melt the cheese, then pour on the A-1. There you go! >;)

Will, the fires on the bun thing, I don't do but man, do you ever make it sound tempting. My sister puts cole slaw on her burgers.

Oh, i loves my Heinz.

In fact, I love condiments, period. To me a significant portion of the fun of eating a good burger has to do with the intermingling of the various condiments one has at hand - cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, mustard, mayo (Hellmans/Best Foods - I did grow up west of the Rockies - never Miracle Whip). I hate it when I order a burger in a restaurant and have to wait a few extra minutes while the waitress goes back to get the sides of mayo or mustard i specifically requested when ordering.

i suggest to you people who eat hamburgers, but really don't like beef that much, a fact that causes you to add needless and competing tastes, that you up the quality of the meat in the burger and just accompany it with a beer or a glass of red wine. I recommend that you venture to Williamsburg on a Saturday, a day of rest no doubt for ever the most devout esthetic jew, for a burger at Peter Luger's. The better the beef, the less need for any competing tastes. Better yet, save the trip and ask Lobel's or some other worthy butcher to grind the tail of a porterhouse and make the burger yourself. Ummmmmm, ummmmmm, good.

[30] That's the thing, ground chuck is nice and cheap. Add some Montreal Steak seasoning, form into patties and have at it :D

I don't eat scrapple, either.

Hunts is too sweet and saccharine for me.

I don't really trust Chris Kimball anyhow, with his silly bow tie after he basically dissed all rice cookers as "unnecessary" and that experimentation with foreign foods was destroying American food culture. I kind of agree with The Hawk on this one.

By-the-way, here's a good link my best friend wrote about the origin of "Ketchup" (he's a professor of computational linguistics, but loves his food!): http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/ You'll have to wade through the other entries to get to his Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 entry. Be prepared: you'll get a pretty deep history lesson that'll take you back to China!