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Do burgers need ketchup? The birthplace of the burger, Louis’ Lunch, doesn’t think so. The family-run business has maintained a strict no-ketchup policy since they opened in 1895. We infiltrate this notorious ketchup resistance cell to try to understand why ketchup is such a polarizing condiment.
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I love Ketchup with my pizza, with my chili dog, chili cheese fries, pastrami sandwich, fried chicken, fries, but not I repeat not with EGGS!
Didn't realize four of my favorite burger chain restaurants from Southern California (In-N-Out, Habit, Tommy's, and Fatburger) don't use ketchup, until I started thinking about it while listening to this podcast.
I worked for one of the largest ketchup producers in America in 2009 they took the HFCS out of the recipe and they stop processing fresh tomatoes it put thousand of people out of work they now buy tomato paste form Mexico they shut down thousand of farmer all across America. we use to process 40 million tons of tomatoes every year at the plant I work at plus the taste and texture is terrible what you now have is 1/3 of a bottle of ketchup is sugar. thanks John Kerry.
This is a podcast not a video…………
Ketchup belongs on a burger but NEVER on a hotdog. That is purely the domain of mustard (and onions or sauerkraut). You can put tomato chunks on a dog or (preferably) sausage but NOT ketchup. Fries (chips for the non-US crowd) are OK with ketchup but they are so very much better with malt vinegar – as God intended. When you have fried squid [calamari] you have malt vinegar with the chips (fries), never ketchup. Ketchup is really just a crappy salsa. Salsa should be chunky and with a snap from the chilis not burning hot. Real Mexican salsa is more vinegar flavor rather than hot – you get a little bit of burn but it's kinda mild on the Scoville scale. You wanna taste the food not just burn your face off. The closest popular "hot sauce" in the US is Taptio; you even see it very popular in mainland and Baja, one of the few similarities between the two areas.
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I fucking hate tomatoes! But I looove ketchup!
This podcast made me realize that I don't have a huge preference when it comes to ketchup, as long as it's Heinz or Hunts; time to check the fridge to see which is in there now…
YOUR DAD PUTS KETCHUP ON STEAK!?!?! I'LL DISOWN HIM FOR YOU! I mean if he likes it, that's his deal, but I'd be disgusted every time I saw him do it; S&P are all that goes on a good cut of beef for me, but to each their own, this is America after all.
I live in CT; meh on Louis' Lunch no ketchup policy – I'm an "eat what you like" kinda guy; I like pickles on my chicken sandwich, and ketchup on my burgers.
Wendys has a soft "no mustard" policy, as in they don't put it on for you, it's available if you want it though.
Edit: Also, my kid dips everything in ketchup… Hotdog? burger? waffle? duck confit? carrots? broccoli? a slightly used napkin? as long as it's in front of him, it's getting dipped in ketchup.
I like ketchup and cheese but not on my burger, I like to taste the char and the meat with a little salt and pepper. There are very few places that cook a burger to my liking, charred on the outside with a little pink on the inside. Most diner and fast food burgers are mostly a greyish colour with who knows what "seasonings" in the meat and are pretty much (for my taste) inedible without the addition of ketchup, cheese or a "secret sauce". I don't like them and don't eat them. I'm not a food snob, it's just my personal preference, there's not a wrong way or right way to what you do with your burger or what you dress it with. It seems Lou's has established itself with a burger that's just about impossible to imitate esp on any kind of franchise level, so I can understand the resistance to not assaulting the flavour profile with ketchup, the argument does fall a bit flat though with the addition of Cheese Whiz, may just as well put ketchup on the table.
The idea of these podcasts is not unlike the "What’s eating Dan" series. A really great idea! Been loving the casts….. Re: "Catsup" I only use it to drown certain food flavors/textures (think liver) etc.
My Father's Office doesn't do ketchup in their burgers too. I used to be addicted to it and would but a teaspoon on each bite of my In-N-Out. However, I started doing keto and broke that addiction. And now I don't eat burgers with ketchup anymore
I once read that the perfect combination of flavor was found in salt, vinegar, and starch. Or, as most children are introduced to it… French Fries and Ketchup. Perhaps, the first comfort food, to appease children. Now, as adults… the High Fructose Corn Syrup, is a bad thing. And an order of fries—God love-em—are contributors to a population of 80% overweight, with half of them being obese. Not fair!
I'm surprised they didn't mention the clove in Heinz.
It's a condiment and either you like it on certain things or you do not. It's certainly not polarizing, period. Branding although will have everything to do with which people choose in a Ketchup. We are thankfully nearing the end of Corn syrup in the ingredients..
WHOSE HERE WATCHING A 34 MIN VIDEO ON KETCHUP??! YEEEEEEaAAAHH
NO DAMN KETCHUP!!! Mustard OR mayo only! Lettuce, onion, pickles, TOMATOES and maybe cheese!
Best ketchup is Whataburgers spicy ketchup!
I put ketchup on everything!!
I and most top chef recipes I've seen call for ketchup. It's on hand and a must for many sauces and casseroles, plus ground meats.
French fries – thousand island, or mayonnaise
Onion rings – nothing
Chicken nuggets – sweet & sour, bbq sauce, or honey mustard
Hot dogs, corn dogs – whole grain mustard
Hamburgers – aioli, or hp sauce
Fish fingers – tartar sauce
Tater tots – ketchup
Fried chicken – bbq sauce, or honey
Is ATK censoring comments now?
Anyway, my small observation is that pro-ketchup people simply tend to like the taste of ketchup on certain foods and don't think about it any more deeply than that, while anti-ketchup people tend to have tons of strong opinions about why ketchup is "wrong," and their dislike of ketchup is almost "political" in nature rather than being a literal distaste for the stuff.
No anti ketchup love for Chicago hot dogs?
This is more about burgers than ketchup 👎🏼👎🏼
Although I love ketchup, I don't have to have it on my burger or hotdog. Love you shows, information, recipes…everything!
Great Prod!! Love ya 🙂
First time at Proof why isn't there video of the place or the people who are being interviewed