There Are Limits

[billroper]

So as I was standing on the concourse eating my dinner at one of the condiment stands -- dinner consisting of a foot-long hot dog with everything except peppers and a pepperoni calzone, the dinner that nutrition forgot! -- I was more than a bit surprised to see someone walk up to the dispenser and squirt ketchup onto his Connie's deep-dish pizza.

I don't eat ketchup on pizza. Katie -- who eats ketchup on Katie -- doesn't eat ketchup on pizza.

This guy, well...

Comments

[scarfman]

One of scarfdad's oldest friends puts ketchup on scrambled eggs.

[billroper]

Ketchup on scrambled eggs isn't that uncommon. :)

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Had he previously consumed so many beers that he forgot that he had a pizza and not a hot dog? Of course that would also require him to have come from one of the many parts of the country or world where ketchup is an acceptable hot dog topping...

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

Urgh. There are those people who eat ketchup on everything.

[rrcgoose.livejournal.com]

I've seen mustard on pizza here on Korea... Mustard! Not to mention every possible topping imagined by man (And some that I wished were not).

There's a reason I order from the Pizza Hut on base.

Steve-

Pizza my mind.....

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

(Shrug) It's not something that I've ever been tempted to do, but the thought of it doesn't repel me. Pizza sauce and ketchup are not all THAT different, and if he thought the pizza needed more sauce that could be a quick-and-dirty way of getting it.

(Never having had Connie's, I've got no idea if "not enough sauce" could be a reasonable evaluation or utter heresy. And as was mentioned elsewhere, some people just like ketchup on, well, everything. It's a security blanket for some.)

For some it may just be a habit. I like pizza, but I never liked the school lunch "pizza" we were offered. I could easily see putting ketchup on school lunch pizza if ketchup was available (it wasn't for us), and that could have become a habit that stayed with the guy even when eating GOOD pizza.

In a message a while back I think it was trektone who complained about a person who put ketchup on a cheese sandwich. I said "Bread, cheese, a bit of a spiced tomato and vinegar sauce - all the basic flavors of pizza." Not a GREAT pizza, mind (perhaps Dormatory Pizza?), but the combination was hardly a surprise.

Re: Pizza my mind.....

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Never having had Connie's, I've got no idea if "not enough sauce" could be a reasonable evaluation or utter heresy.

I've concluded there are your generic pizzas and then there are pizza places that have a very devoted following because of their unique taste. I don't like Connie's - the flavor of the sauce is just off to my taste buds. Papa John's is way too sweet and we won't even mention my opinion of Domino's. I would have just by-passed the Connie's in favor of just about anything else but I can see putting catchup on it to change the flavor.

[salexa.livejournal.com]

I have a coworker who thinks pizza is a delivery mechanism for ketchup. She claims it is a common thing in the area of Poland where she grew up.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Ketchup is for things with no flavor that you have to eat anyway. I try to avoid them in the first place.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I have actually seen people put MAYONAISSE on pizza!

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Man! I *knew* I shouldn't have clicked on the comments link for this entry!