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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on May 03, 1999 03:41 PM:

...the sanity of Americans:

(It's a link. Click on it!)

--Baloo

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[This message was edited by Baloo on May 03, 1999.]

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on May 03, 1999 04:08 PM:

Without that food site, what would you do with your time Baloo? Wait, don't answer that.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on May 03, 1999 05:29 PM:

Poor Baloo.

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Posted by Trinculo on May 03, 1999 06:38 PM:

Pouring Ketchup on eggs may have been a culture habit that faded in the mid-twentieth century. I know my grandfather used ketchup for his eggs. Personnally, I don't like ketchup and never used it.

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on May 03, 1999 08:50 PM:

The only reason I love peas, green beans, and spinach today is that my mother poured ketchup on them when I was young to get me to eat them. Thanks, Mom!

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on May 03, 1999 08:55 PM:

*shudder*

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on May 04, 1999 02:36 PM:

Hey! We American's don't make (much) fun of Marmite and Vegemite (those living where that stuff's a delicacy please explain for the uninitiated) so why pick on ketchup?

Almost every culinary advance made in America resulted from a need to make food that was about to go bad palatable.

Chicken-fried steak: Pound it flat, bread it, deep-fry it and smother with gravy.

Ketchup: Disguise the flavor.

In the pioneer days, you killed what you ate and continued to eat it until it started to move again (altogether now: EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!) Modern improvements in food production, safe storage, etc., haven't removed these foods from our culinary pallette. Rather, these foods are now safe enough that we can worry about taste. If you've ever eaten grass-fed beef, you'd understand the attraction of ketchup.

--Baloo

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