Are You Getting Enough Ketchup in Your Diet?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dracon II
Is ketchup tomato sauce?

Is it in any way related to the indonesian "ketjap"?

Yes to both.

[Space05us]

Vinegar is good, but not the Western white vinegar. It's okay if nothing else is available, but it doesn't have any flavours to it.

Try the Chinese "brown" or "red" varieties. They are great. Sometimes I drink that stuff straight.

I dont mind the initial taste so much as I dont like the tart aftertaste it leaves on the back of my tongue.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It seems no one gets the OP.

Thats cause they havent eaten enought Powdermilk (TM) biscuits.

"Has your family tried 'em Powdermilk?
Has your family tried 'em Powdermilk?
Cause if your familys tried 'em,
You know you've satisfied 'em,
They're a real hot item powdermilk"

Still trying to find the meaning of life
Lord of the Mark

[Q Classic]

kimchi > ketchup.

[lord of the mark]

ketchup - for the good times. Ketchup.

[Q Classic]

Bill Murray doing:

For relaxing times... make it Ketchup times.

[lord of the mark]

"TR: These are the good years for Barb and me. We had a nice quiet Christmas and watched all of our favorite Christmas movies on DVD, sitting in our PJs and eating popcorn and got dressed and went out for dinner at a restaurant and dinner, which used to take four hours and included weeping and yelling and slamming doors, took twenty minutes including dessert, and we came home and got right to work on the 5000-piece jigsaw puzzle that Barb gave me for Christmas last year, a Jackson Pollock jigsaw puzzle, which is almost finished, and now she's given me an Ad Reinhardt one, which should be a big challenge ----- and then suddenly she burst into tears. (SS SNIFFLING) Barb. What's wrong?

SS: I always feel bad when Christmas is over, Jim. You know that.

TR: You miss the kids? You feel guilty about how we kicked them out of the house and told them not to come back until they'd straightened out and now it's been six years? Is that it?

SS: No, it's just that ----- I love listening to the radio at Christmastime. It's like suddenly we go back to the Fifties and we have pop music again.

TR: I don't understand.

SS: You remember pop music----- Perro Como, Patti Page, the Lennon Sisters-----

TR: Sure.

SS: Radio got so ugly in the 70s. And the 80s and the 90s. Heavy metal. Hip-hop. All that anger. And talk radio. Oh my gosh. But Christmas comes along and for two magical days we're back in the Eisenhower years when everybody sort of got along with everybody else. Because there are no heavy metal Christmas songs. So we get to hear Bing Crosby. Andy Williams. Burl Ives. It's the 50s 24/7 for two days.

TR: When did you start saying "24/7," Barb?

SS: I'm sorry. I meant, "Round the clock." Anyway, I wish it could last longer. Til Epiphany. January 6th. The twelve days of Christmas. ---- Remember the Roger Wagner Chorale recording of that? Remember when there were choirs on radio----- the Harry Simeone Chorale? The Norman Luboff Choir? Now you have groups called Chameleon Pustules and Naked Fusebox Mama. I miss the old days.

TR: Hey---- turn up the radio----- (GUITAR LOW, STARTS)

SS: What?

TR: Turn it up------ they're playing our song.

SS: Oh it's Bob----

RD (SINGING, DYLAN): Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
Jack Frost nipping at your nose.
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up Eskimos……
Everybody knows-----

TR: All we need to ease our transition back to non-Christmas is ketchup, Barb. You know that. Ketchup contains natural mellowing agents that help you get over the post-holiday blues. And its festive red color really brightens up almost any dish.

SS: No doubt about that. (THEME)

RD: These are the good years, faces all a-glow,
Smoke from the chimney, the moon across the snow.
Ketchup is flowing on the escargot.

GK: Ketchup. For the good times.

RD: Ketchup...ketchup... "

[lord of the mark]

" ...after a word from the Catchup Advisory Board.

Sue Scott: These are the good years for Jim and me. Jim went out and bought matching his and hers iPods in pink and gold, which put us way over our weekly budget, so I expressed my anger in a constructive, relationship-affirming manner like my life coach taught me-I made a meatloaf . And afterwards I felt wonderful. It turns out that Jim found a new tax accountant who could get us a refund that is actually quite a bit more than we earned last year. It didn't sound right to me, but Jim said that the guy is really really smart.

Tim Russell: He showed me how we can deduct the cost of fruit as a health expense.

SS: Fruit?

TR: Antioxidants, Barb. And I'm buying a flat-screen TV tomorrow, so I can deduct that, too. And also that Harley Davidson I've always wanted. .

SS: I don't know. Those don't sound like business expenses to me.

TR: A 42-inch widescreen plasma EDTV with HDMI input and a six-piece surround-sound system with a long-throw subwoofer, plus the bone-rattling rev of a Harley engine— it's about image, Barb. You put out a certain image, and people want to do business with you.

SS: I notice here on his business card — his slogan is "Not Paying Taxes Is How We Starve The Beast of Big Government". It doesn't sound right, Jim. Why don't we just do TurboTax again?

TR: Listen, Barb — this our chance to keep more of our money and live life the way we always meant to. This guy is a professional. He knows what he's doing.

SS: Jim, we worked hard to get where we are. I don't want to spend my golden years in prison. Even if it was good for Martha Stewart and she learned a lot about herself. Besides, ponchos make me look fat.

TR: You're right, Barb. We should just do our taxes ourselves and lose money like we always do It's the right thing to do.. I don't know what I was thinking.

SS: Maybe you're not getting enough Catchup. Catchup has natural mellowing agents that help you avoid morally dubious situations. So you don't wind up making your own license plate in the big house.

Rich Dworsky: (SING) These are the good years so try to keep it lawful
Prison's overrated and the food is something awful
Life is flowing
Like catchup on falafel

GK: Catchup—for the good times.

RD: Catchup, catchup "

[chequita guevara]

I knew some old fart would get it.

[Dr Strangelove]

Yes. I'm a fan of Garrison Keillor too.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I knew some old fart would get it.

life is flowing - like ketchup.

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
kimchi > ketchup.

Aaarrrgghh!!! My flatmate made kimchi once.... he kept it in a jar in the fridge for several months. When he finally finished it no matter how hard we tried to clean it we couldn't get rid of the smell.... it's been almost a year now and that jar still smells like bloody kim chi

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs
Is that a typo for 'Sriracha'? I don't remember seeing it in England, but I bought some at a local Chinese store here. It's really good, maybe they're going to take over the world.

What is it?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Space05us

Vinegar is good, but not the Western white vinegar. It's okay if nothing else is available, but it doesn't have any flavours to it.

Try the Chinese "brown" or "red" varieties. They are great. Sometimes I drink that stuff straight.

I dont mind the initial taste so much as I dont like the tart aftertaste it leaves on the back of my tongue.

I guess it's an aquired taste, like durian

[Space05us]

I was reminded tonight that another good use for ketchup is noodle sauce.