Which Chips (or Fries) Are the Best?

[dragoner]

I managed to find the Heinz no sugar added ketchup today and had it on my usual Friday burgers. Not bad. I was hoping for a more tomatoey flavour with far less sweetness but, unfortunately, they added Sucralose to make up for the missing high fructose corn syrup. Funny thing is that on the actual bottle it says 0g sugar, which is impossible if they used real tomato paste as indicated in the ingredients.

That is a bummer, the one I have, doesn't have that, just tomato and vinegar taste, though I think it is not as popular. That is something I avoid also: HFCS, whenever possible.

 

[Ryujin]

That is a bummer, the one I have, doesn't have that, just tomato and vinegar taste, though I think it is not as popular. That is something I avoid also: HFCS, whenever possible.

That's definitely more what I was looking for. I have this weird memory of ketchup not having anywhere near as much sugar, in the '60s, but can't find anything to support it. Everything I find seems to indicate that sweetness has been the main note since the late 1800s.

 

[dragoner]

That's definitely more what I was looking for. I have this weird memory of ketchup not having anywhere near as much sugar, in the '60s, but can't find anything to support it. Everything I find seems to indicate that sweetness has been the main note since the late 1800s.

Though doesn't hfcs only become a standard ingredient in the 70's or 80's? That could be it, like taco trucks have Mexican cokes, and I'm not a big coke or soft drink drinker, though I find the cane sugar in those isn't as sweet.

 

[Ryujin]

Though doesn't hfcs only become a standard ingredient in the 70's or 80's? That could be it, like taco trucks have Mexican cokes, and I'm not a big coke or soft drink drinker, though I find the cane sugar in those isn't as sweet.

That could be it. Supposedly Heinz does a version of ketchup that's sweetened with sugar, rather than HFCS, and there was a case of someone relabeling the HFCS stuff to appear to be the stuff that was sweetened with sugar. If I remember the story right the fakes fermented in a hot warehouse and essentially exploded.

 

[dbolack]

I managed to find the Heinz no sugar added ketchup today and had it on my usual Friday burgers. Not bad. I was hoping for a more tomatoey flavour with far less sweetness but, unfortunately, they added Sucralose to make up for the missing high fructose corn syrup. Funny thing is that on the actual bottle it says 0g sugar, which is impossible if they used real tomato paste as indicated in the ingredients.

Yeah, that one is "no Sugar added" not no sugar. You maybe should have tried the "Simply" which is 4g, but it's cane sugar and I usually find it tastes better.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah, that one is "no Sugar added" not no sugar. You maybe should have tried the "Simply" which is 4g, but it's cane sugar and I usually find it tastes better.

Speaking of "tastes better," a coworker of mine from years ago would make their own. We traded a bottle of my homebrewed beer for a bottle of their homemade ketchup, and it was probably the best I've ever had. Not too sweet, not too salty, you could actually taste the tomatoes...I'm sort of lukewarm on ketchup in general, but that stuff was superb.

"It's real simple," he said. "You just mix the ingredients and boil it. Done." He never gave me the recipe, though. But from looking around online, I think he's right: most of the recipes I'm finding for ketchup are just vinegar, sweetener, tomato paste, and spices/flavorings, and the instructions are pretty much just "mix it all together and cook until thick."

This merits further study.

 

[dbolack]

Speaking of "tastes better," a coworker of mine from years ago would make their own. We traded a bottle of my homebrewed beer for a bottle of their homemade ketchup, and it was probably the best I've ever had. Not too sweet, not too salty, you could actually taste the tomatoes...I'm sort of lukewarm on ketchup in general, but that stuff was superb.

Have you tried Banana Ketchup?

 

[Cadence]

Waffle fries got my vote based on fond memories of Irish Nachos at Coslow's in Champaign-Urbana decades ago. If I remember right you could order the toppings similar to ordering them for Pizza.

 

[CleverNickName]

Have you tried Banana Ketchup?

I have! I tried it at a local ... Cuban? Puerto Rican? Jamaican? ... restaurant a couple of years ago. It was very different from tomato ketchup, but I liked it.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Banana ketchup ime can range from very different to basically the same thing. I wonder if there are sauces made from bananas that just get called 'ketchup' in English, like what happens with curry.