Ketchup, Please. DLR condiments and toppings

[mechurchlady]

It is a running joke about me and ketchup that started when I was a kid. Once to shock my dad I put ketchup on ice cream. I do not like ketchup very much and it is to acidic and sweet. Not an allergy craving or sensory thing so I cannot figure out why I use so much ketchup.

My questions for this food thread.

Is there a condiment like Ketchup that you use a lot of?
Do you only use one brand?

Condiments, toppings and other additions to food

At DLR what do you put on your food? Do you have to have a hot dog done a certain way for example? Do you like fries with cheese or have to have them plain?

What stuff do you like to put on food? Are you into hot sauce, tabasco sauce, cheese, special mustards or maybe it is ketchup.


I love french fries dipped in barbecue sauce. Hot dogs should have onions, mustard and relish. Steak is plain or A-1 sauce. Mom loves honey on fried chicken. The best sundae is the Matterhorn or a banana split.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

My daughter got me into ranch! Now whenever I get french fries, I get a side of ranch.

I love peppercinis too -- whenever I get a sub sandwich somewhere I have them pile those up with lots of vinegar and oil. DH thinks I am nuts!

 

[LavenderPeach]

I have to have honey mustard sauce when I have chicken strips. If there's no honey mustard than just forget about the strips. Not sure about at DLR though. I don't think I've ever had chicken strips (or I guess now, chicken nuggets) there.

DH likes to put honey on various things. If I make nachos at home he will put honey on his. He's also been putting chalula sauce on everything lately.

 

[Sherry E]

Okay, why not....I will give a condiment run down in general, though not solely for DLR.

Onions! I love onions. If I am eating pizza, burgers or hot dogs, a tuna sandwich (and I eat hot dogs and tuna sandwiches probably only once every several years), they all have to have onions and usually garlic on top/mixed in, in generous quantities. I will also add extra onions AND garlic to any pasta sauce from a jar just to oomph it up a bit.....Now if I am eating, say, a meatball sandwich, of course there have to be onions and garlic somewhere on there, but it has to have lots of melted (not grated) mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce on it.....If I am eating spaghetti, in addition to the onions and garlic, there has to be lots of sauce and lots of grated parmesan cheese.....Now, if I am eating, say, a deli turkey sandwich - with thin slices - the only condiment or topping I use is mustard. Lots and lots of mustard. No mayo. No anything else - just turkey, wheat bread and mustard.....If I am eating chicken fingers/strips/tenders/nuggets, it is ALL about the BBQ sauce! Must have lots of BBQ sauce for dipping. Occasionally I will use a little bit of steak sauce but mainly BBQ. Grilled chicken sandwiches have to have mustard, red onions and BBQ sauce. Hamburgers have to have a dash of ketchup, a dash of mustard, a dash of BBQ sauce, a dash of steak sauce, and plenty of onions. Hot dogs must be covered in mustard and onions.....Salads are no good to me without Italian dressing - oil and vinegar as a substitute. I really like Bernstein's balsamic Italian - great flavor. Mashed potatoes and meat loaf have to have gravy. Meat loaf also has to have ketchup!.....If I eat ice cream, I usually eat it without toppings. I love the flavor if ice cream so I don't need to put anything on it really, except for the occasional drizzle of Hershey's syrup over vanilla.

Anyway, with all the mustard, ketchup, onions and BBQ sauce I have consumed in my life, you may imagine it has done a number on my stomach - all of those are very acidic - and you would be right!!! I keep my Zantac handy and available at all times just in case!!

 

[PinkBudgie]

Here are my food rules:

Salad must have Ranch dressing.
Avacado or guacomole goes on many things- salad, sandwiches, burgers, and of course, Mexican food. That is why I like the chicken sandwich at Whitewater Snacks.
Tomatoes go on everything.
Mustard goes on corn dogs and pretzles.
BBQ sauce goes on chicken nuggets.
Frenchfries are good dipped in a chocolate milkshake. But since I don't get milkshakes anymore to save on calories, ketchup or Ranch will do.

Yikes! I know I just gained five pounds writing about all this!

 

[Pezalicious]

I love ketchup. Heinz is too acidic, so I prefer hunt's. When I was a kid, I put ketchup on my eggs, and I dipped my green beans in it like they were fries. I'm not quite so bad now, but I need ketchup on my burgers (unless it's a teriyaki burger), hot dogs (though corn dogs HAVE to have mustard), fries, etc.

I think I'm generally a sauce/dip type person. Meat just plain needs it, and so do most veggies.

ketchup, garlic butter, mayo, blue cheese dressing, miso dressing, garlic and herb sauce, honey mustard, honey bbq.. I like it all!

 

[mechurchlady]

I love onions and used to eat ketchup, mayo and onion sandwiches. I still eat peanut butter and onions.


Pozole has to have cabbage, cilantro and onions but nothing else. I love Fritos corn chips with honey mustard or yellow mustard. I miss cottage cheese with jelly in it that my grandmother loved so much. Jelly on vanilla ice cream is another thing I like to do.

I love chocolate shakes but sharing is caring and I need a caring person to share half my shake and save me from them calories.

 

[pixiewings71]

I'm not a big ketchup junkie either. I do love BBQ Sauce, Ranch and pickles tho. Those are my faves!

 

[mechurchlady]

What kind of pickles?

I love pickle relish, crave the stuff. I eat mainly dill pickles on sandwiches and bread & butter pickles with our dinner. I wonder if anyone is a pickle connoisseur, lol. We use Fannings bread and butter pickles but do not really care what brand of dill that we get.

 

[LavenderPeach]

Here are my food rules:

Salad must have Ranch dressing.
Avacado or guacomole goes on many things- salad, sandwiches, burgers, and of course, Mexican food. That is why I like the chicken sandwich at Whitewater Snacks.
Tomatoes go on everything.
Mustard goes on corn dogs and pretzles.
BBQ sauce goes on chicken nuggets.
Frenchfries are good dipped in a chocolate milkshake. But since I don't get milkshakes anymore to save on calories, ketchup or Ranch will do.

Yikes! I know I just gained five pounds writing about all this!

Yes, I used to believe salads must have Ranch too but that was before I was introduced to Marie's poppy seed dressing. It's in the produce section (refrigerated) not the regular salad dressing aisle. I love that stuff. Someone brought us dinner one time when DS was in the hospital and they brought that dressing for the salad and I've been hooked ever sense. It almost has sort of a honey mustard type flavor to it. I still like ranch too though.

I agree that mustard most definately goes on corn dogs and soft pretzles.

And being the good big sister that you are, you introduced me many years ago (in our youth) to dipping french fries in chocolate milk shakes and that is so yummy. I still do it when I get a chance but like you don't order shakes very often anymore.

 

[LavenderPeach]

What kind of pickles?

I love pickle relish, crave the stuff. I eat mainly dill pickles on sandwiches and bread & butter pickles with our dinner. I wonder if anyone is a pickle connoisseur, lol. We use Fannings bread and butter pickles but do not really care what brand of dill that we get.

Here's my take on pickles: Chopped up sweet pickles must go in egg salad sandwiches. I don't usually buy dill pickles but can never resist the pickle spears that sometimes come with sandwiches.

 

[mechurchlady]

Wht do you like on potatos?

Mashed potatos are plain or a bit of butter.
Baked potato should not be rubbed in salt and should have butter, bacon, cheese and chives. I love a plain baked potato with butter, salt and pepper but there is nothing like a loaded baked potato.

I love Brianna's poppy seed dressings and they are gluten free.

 

[Grumpy'sWife4Ever]

I can't think of anything too specific about eating at DLR....I do know that I like the cheese sauce that comes with the Mickey-shaped soft pretzels, that was yummy......Everything else we ate came with your basics. I am usually not TOO particular....

However, in the "real" world, I do have some likes and dislikes. Laurie, I did the ketchup and ice cream thing when I was a kid, too - just for the shock factor, I didn't really eat it. But my parents swore I put it on everything. To my recollection, I only used it when meats were involved - including our Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas ham! This is no longer the case. The only time I grab for the ketchup bottle these days is for French fries or tater tots. I also like to branch out with my dipping sauce choices - I will use ranch dressing, yellow mustard, honey mustard, salsa, cocktail sauce (okay, so that's just a glorified ketchup ) BBQ sauce, chipotle sauce (yum!) and I'll pretty much try anything else once.....

On baked potatoes, I enjoy sour cream OR ranch dressing OR salsa OR chili...... On tacos I love Taco Bell taco sauce which is a bummer because we don't live anywhere near one so the packets are like gold to me...... On hot dogs I love French's yellow mustard and sweet pickle relish. In high school my girlfriends and I would order a large basket of fries and a large sundae, and we would dip the fries in the ice cream! Yup. Now THAT was living on the edge....

 

[PinkBudgie]

Wht do you like on potatos?

Mashed potatos are plain or a bit of butter.
Baked potato should not be rubbed in salt and should have butter, bacon, cheese and chives. I love a plain baked potato with butter, salt and pepper but there is nothing like a loaded baked potato.

I love Brianna's poppy seed dressings and they are gluten free.

Mashed potatos are best with white pepper mixed in! We got this tip from a trip to Williamsburg when I was in 9th grade!

Sometimes I like Mexican baked potatos. With taco meat, salsa, sour cream, avacados, tomatos, onions... Gee, what don't I like on potatos?! I know, blue cheese. That doesn't belong on anything.

LP- I had the poppy seed dressing at your house, and it is good for not being ranch, but still Ranch Rules.

 

[Sherry E]

This is a whole new phenomenon to me - this dipping fries in milkshakes or ice cream thing! I have never thought to do this but apparently it is done! I may have to try it.

I remember as a kid, my grandmother would fix me a 'snack' (when I was a small kid) of bread, butter and sugar! I guess I thought it was good back then - something about the butter and the sugar mixed together - but I would never eat that now!

I eat mashed potatoes more than baked ones, but if I have a baked potato, it has to have lots of chives and maybe some bacon bits.

Mashed potatoes have to have lots of thick gravy (not watery stuff), and maybe some garlic and bacon mixed in!

 

[mechurchlady]

So is that your top thing to do in DLR area, get Taco Bell sauce packets?
Maybe the dissers can send you some.

I love shrimp cocktails and have even tried the cocktail sauce on chicken which was very good.

 

[Grumpy'sWife4Ever]

Cocktail sauce is very good for "pepping" up bland dip-ables, like fish sticks or even chicken nuggets. I often find myself feasting on "kid" food (since I have three of them!) so I try to find ways to make it more exciting. I also put chopped tomato and olives in my macaroni and cheese, so I can pretend it is real pasta.....

And yes, any time I am near a Taco Bell I try to "stock up." I am not dishonest in my intentions, however. We usually drive through, and I will ask the server at the window for "extra" sauce packets. If I find someone in a good mood they will give me big handfuls!

 

[PinkBudgie]

Cocktail sauce is very good for "pepping" up bland dip-ables, like fish sticks or even chicken nuggets. I often find myself feasting on "kid" food (since I have three of them!) so I try to find ways to make it more exciting. I also put chopped tomato and olives in my macaroni and cheese, so I can pretend it is real pasta.....

Ooh! I do some good things with Mac n Cheese! Mix in hamburger, one can of chopped tomatos and Italian seasonings. Or, sometimes I mix in hamburger (actually, I use ground turkey, I don't really buy hamburger) seasoned with taco seasoning. Makes a spicey Mac n Cheese.

Have you looked for Taco Bell stuff in the grocery store? Ours has some in the Mexican food section.

 

[Grumpy'sWife4Ever]

Ooh! I do some good things with Mac n Cheese! Mix in hamburger, one can of chopped tomatos and Italian seasonings. Or, sometimes I mix in hamburger (actually, I use ground turkey, I don't really buy hamburger) seasoned with taco seasoning. Makes a spicey Mac n Cheese.

Have you looked for Taco Bell stuff in the grocery store? Ours has some in the Mexican food section.

I have also been known to stir a can of chili beans and shredded cheese into our mac and cheese.....because you KNOW it isn't fattening enough to start with!

Our local supermarkets quit carrying Taco Bell stuff, although I did buy a bottle of the taco sauce out in the valley at a WinCo. It wasn't exactly the same - much thicker and less tangy than the packets. It was fine, but it wasn't what my tongue REALLY wanted, you know....???

 

[PinkBudgie]

I have also been known to stir a can of chili beans and shredded cheese into our mac and cheese.....because you KNOW it isn't fattening enough to start with!

Our local supermarkets quit carrying Taco Bell stuff, although I did buy a bottle of the taco sauce out in the valley at a WinCo. It wasn't exactly the same - much thicker and less tangy than the packets. It was fine, but it wasn't what my tongue REALLY wanted, you know....???

I try to help the fattening part by using non fat milk and the 1/2 fat marg. sticks. A can of chili sounds good. When the boys were little, of course there was the old stand by of mixing hotdog pieces in. We should put together a cookbook called The Mommy's Mac N Cheese Cookbook!


That's terrible they changed the sauce for the bottle. People have a definite idea of how it is supposed to me. That was me and Arby's sauce before we had an Arby's around here.