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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9394265" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I'm with your wife on this. She never puts ketchup or mustard on anything, doesn't care for salsa with chips, etc. I'm the opposite. While I like sauces in general, not just ketchup, I never let the ketchup run out in my house. I just can't enjoy fries without ketchup or burgers without something saucy on them. I know I would never be considered a true barbecue fan. I had a colleague who was from the Carolinas and was a huge barbecue fan and set out to educate me on true barbecue, taking me to the what he considered to be the best places throughout North and South Carolina when we were working on some projects in those states. The traditional, dry, smoked, chopped pork with sauce on the side just doesn't do it for me. Give me a rack of ribs dripping in sauce that requires a roll of paper towels on the table to eat over traditional bbq anyday.   Though I do appreciate him introducing me to the magic of good, freshly made from scratch, hush puppies. And I did pick up an addiction to sweet tea while I was there. While I was a big fan of Anthony Bourdain, the episode where Barack Obama was a guest and they went off on people who eating hot dogs with ketchup was annoying. I love mustards and will happily eat hot dogs, brats, and sausage with just mustard, but they're good with ketchup as well. Ketchup is a sauce that suffers from its popularity and ubiquity and, admittedly, folks who are unwilling to try anything else. But I find people who stick to what they like and have little willingness to try new things far less obnoxious than those who feel the need to make negative character judgements over other people's personal taste. I generally don't eat steak with ketchup...unless I'm with someone who has made disparaging comments about it before.  Their disbelief and umbrage makes the food tastier. Ketchup is fine with steak. Even though there I find that are many more interesting ways of enjoying it, I would never give anyone grief for eating it how they like. Living in Asia, I've met many Westerners who are food snobs about the dishes they are familiar with, but engage in the same unadventurous behavior they put other people down for when faced with foods outside of their experience.</blockquote>

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