Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 07, 2016

Then what?

But I feel the same way about pasties… Go back down below Da Bridge, fudgie!. Ketchup on a pastie? Blasphemy!…BTW, Flank steak needs steak sauce…Lea and Perrins, preferably………

There’s a restaurant where I occasionally dine, and at the bottom of the menu is this:“Please no substitutions our chef is crazy, seriously”

Pardon me. Do you have any Grey Poupon?

Love the chef! He could really be a bear wearing a chef mask.

Easiest way to tell you’re in a quality steak house. When you don’t need to add ANYTHING to the steak. Not even salt or pepper.

Anyone remember the I Love Lucy when she unknowingly orders escargot in a French restaurant? Once the food comes she asked for ketchup (“tomatan” in French I think) and the chef comes out and goes ballistic.

When a waitress asks me if I want steak sauce, my response is always, “Why, isn’t the meat any good?”

I’ll never ask for ketchup. Pass the mustard, please.

“I’d let a horse piss on my steak before I’d put ketchup on it.” James Michener, “Centennial”

I saw one of my grandnieces put ketchup on turkey on thanksgiving. BTW, I tried ketchup on vanilla ice cream once.

II wonder what would happen if they order a Manhattan and ask for it to be shaken?

Ketchup on a burger or hot dog or sausage or meatloaf, sure. On a steak? WTF is wrong with you?

If the steak is cooked right you don’t need any sauce. Steak sauce is for bad cooks to hide their mistakes.

One restaurant in Durham, NC has a sign stating that ketchup is for bad food, and that they do not serve bad food.

And the truth is, they serve only VERY good food.

Catsup: usually a regurgitated hairball, sometimes a regurgitated mouse.Ketchup: an un-capsized small sailboat.

I’ll have some of that cold, spicy tomato sauce out of a squeeze bottle for my French fries please.

I always tell the waiter(ess) I don’t want the steak if I need Steak Sauce!

Chef’s dilemma.

For me, ketchup only works on fries. And even then it needs to be bolstered with 50% hot sauce for flavor.

Ketchup has been banned in my household for years. Since I do the grocery shopping, it is easy to enforce.

Ketchup needs some love here! Think about it like this: if tomatoes are a fruit, then ketchup is a smoothie.

I never understood putting catsup or steak sauce on an expensive steak.You could just get hamburger and put the sauce on it… it would taste the same.I love the taste of STEAK, it don’t need any help.

And no mayo on pastrami!

Gazpacho soup!

I hadn’t eaten ketchup, which I loved, in a long time…like years, just by chance. Then one day I did. Almost gagged. That stuff is horrible. Evidently it really IS an acquired taste, one we’ve gotten as children.

I call ketchup tomato syrup. I will eat it on French fries, but that is about it.

Waiter ,what are “butterball potatos”? And I’ll have my ketchup now ,please !

Wow – so many comments about whether or not to use ketchup, and nothing about whether or not one should eat flank steak.Flank steak in a stir fry, or fajitas, sure. Flank steak as an actual steak is just crazy talk. Get a good cut of meat for your steak.

Ketchup on fries and grilled cheesers only.

GeorgeCattleman’s rule, no sweet sauces on their beef.

@BiathalonNut Try ordering ketchup at The Roast and then prepare to duck.

You can look out if you order chicken-fried steak and the knife they bring you is weapons quality.

In 1963 KC, MO had some good German restaurants.6 people from our design studio had lunch in one. Menu had all manner of tasty German dishes. When the waiter came to one artist/writer he asked for a hamburger & Orange Nehigh Soda. Without a comment kitchen sent someone out a quick food emporium, bought the hamburger & Orange soda. We were amazed at the service, especially for a non menu item. Of course kitchen staff’s later comments would have been great material for our humor oriented Contemporary Design studio.

We were in a fairly nice Lebanese restaurant a couple of weeks ago and ordered a lamb dish that came with roasted potatoes. We both kind of looked at each other like “what the?” when the waiter plopped the bottle of ketchup on the table.

The craaazy old GF told me (and I believed her!) thatKetchup (or even Catsup) is an Insult to a Cook! If something needed Ketchup, it should have got it In the Kitchen.