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11-02-2007, 05:09 PM
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| | Ketchup! On a BAKED. POTATO! | |
Oh. My. God. On a Baked. Potato! Ketchup! OMG!!!1!!
It must be the end of the world, because it’s all I’ve been hearing about for an hour.
There's a head-banging smilie, I know, but I don't have the energy to try to find it because I've been doing it in real life for too long.
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11-02-2007, 05:46 PM
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 Just for you. 
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11-02-2007, 06:20 PM
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Ketchup on Cheerios. No milk.
2 small boys. They have since given it up.
Once we went into a restaurant and one child requested ketchup with his pancake breakfast. The waitress asked why. I told her she was better off not knowing. I only let him put ketchup on one small piece of pancake, because I had surmised (correctly) that he would not want it on the rest. He did eat his Cheerios with ketchup for many years, though.
I wonder if he'd eat a baked potato if it had ketchup on it.
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11-02-2007, 06:32 PM
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Gross, yes, but hardly extended conversation worthy. |
11-02-2007, 08:03 PM
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I like to whip ketchup into mashed potatoes. Turns them pink. Freaks the boyfriend out. Makes life good.
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11-02-2007, 11:23 PM
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Ketchup on a baked potato is good, but mustard is less fattening |
11-02-2007, 11:39 PM
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Aunt Carole used to eat ketchup on ice cream. I swear. She treated ketchup like it was it's own food group.
I'm with wormie...I'd rather have mustard (but not that nasty yellow stuff, and not on a baked potato OR baloney.)
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11-03-2007, 01:36 AM
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I know catsup is really sweet, but on ice cream??? Popular uses of catsup in my area: as a topping for Kraft mac 'n cheese. What I like: catsup mixed with mayonaise to dip fries into.
Here's some baked potato toppings stranger than catsup: beans and cheese; prawn mayonaise; tuna, sweet corn and mayonaise; haggis! These are very popular in the U.K. (I had sweet corn, cheese, and diced red onion on one and it wasn't bad. Just strange.)
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11-03-2007, 08:42 AM
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| | Re Ketchup! On a BAKED. POTATO! | |
Ketchup on cottage cheese. Mix it up and it's like thousand island cottage cheese - or Russian cottage cheese, since there's no relish.
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11-03-2007, 11:47 AM
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Quote: eris esoteric said
 I like to whip ketchup into mashed potatoes. Turns them pink. Freaks the boyfriend out. Makes life good. | Ever try that with cheese and bacon bits?
My youngest loves that. I like the cheese and bacon bits, but I can live without the ketchup.
Works with rice, too.
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11-04-2007, 11:14 AM
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She went on about it forever on Friday, it was driving me insane. And she kept going on about how it would look to clients if they took her out to dinner, and how much of a horrible impression it would make if she put ketchup on a baked potato. I just couldn't believe she thought it was such a huge deal, people eat much, much worse things. I put ranch dressing on my steak, which tons of people find totally wrong, but I love it, and wouldn't stop eating something I like just because it's strange.
I love ketchup and mayo mixed for my fries too!
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11-04-2007, 11:35 AM
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I do eat differently when I am with clients, but I'm not going to bore you with the details 
Why didn't you tell her "either put the ketchup on or don't, but don't agonize over it." :p |
11-04-2007, 11:42 AM
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Um, why not order fries instead of the baked potato? Doesn't it usually come with an OPTION in there?? |
11-04-2007, 08:31 PM
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Why not order a salad and be done with it completely. 
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11-05-2007, 10:02 AM
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The salad thing was apparently an issue too. The woman I was listening too kept crabbing about why this other woman couldn't have gotten a salad instead of the potato - it sounded like the potato was her meal, not just a side option, because the potato offender is a vegetarian, so the potato is all she got.
And yes, I'll sometimes get different things than normal when I'm with clients, but I'm not going to eat something I don't like just because it'll make a better impression.
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11-05-2007, 07:37 PM
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Quote: MiracleMax said
And yes, I'll sometimes get different things than normal when I'm with clients, but I'm not going to eat something I don't like just because it'll make a better impression. | No, but, I bet if you thought it was a big deal to put ketchup on your potato, you just wouldn't put it on your potato. |
11-07-2007, 04:33 PM
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No, but, I bet if you thought it was a big deal to put ketchup on your potato, you just wouldn't put it on your potato. | When in Rome....
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11-07-2007, 04:35 PM
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...says the lady from the country that puts cheese curds and gravy on their fried potatoes!
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11-07-2007, 06:48 PM
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I guess I'm just not that much of a conformist. Call me crazy.
Mostly this is just one of many major annoyances that I have to deal with from the same woman across the wall, and I couldn't believe how long she was going on about something I saw as being so small and insignificant. Thankfully, I haven't heard about it since. Although, I've joked that if I get her (the complainer, I don't even know the other woman) for our Christmas exchange, I'm giving a baked potato and bottle of ketchup. 
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11-07-2007, 08:04 PM
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11-14-2007, 08:51 AM
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ds hates ketchup-but loves mustard. He'll try almost anything-with mustard on it. He doesn't like mayo either, he got REALLY upset yesterday when his sister "accidently" told him the lunch sandwiches had mayo and cheese(he doesn't like cheese on his sandwiches)-when in fact the lunch sandwiches had only meat and mustard-as requested by BOTH kids that day...
I know darned well she did it on purpose to get a rise out of him-and of course it worked
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11-14-2007, 10:29 AM
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Guess who's name I got for the Christmas party exchange! 
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11-14-2007, 10:50 AM
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Is it a Secret Santa type of thing where she won't know who gave it to her???
I have a Sam's membership if you want a Really Big Bottle of ketchup to go with those potatoes.....
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