What is the best brand of ketchup?

And do you ever spell it "catsup"?

• The best is Heinz Reduced Sugar but just this month they have made the bottle smaller and tripled the price. It was good for low carb and diabetics, but they lost me as a customer.

• Hate Heinz. Too sour.

• Mother's, fresh off the stove.

  Esther Smith

• Buy the bottle of Heinz chili sauce instead. It is like ketchup, just amped up.

• Ketchup is just a vinegar delivery system anyway, so I just use a good vinegar.

• Malcolm Gladwell's great take on Ketchup. A great read!!!

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• Good one, r3.

  Katie

• America's Test Kitchen voted for Hunt's. They took out the HFCS from their ketchup a couple of years ago but nobody liked it anymore. Now, they have their regular HFCS product and another 'natural' ketchup that does not contain HFCS. I'm not sure if it was the non-HFCS recipe that won the taste test or the regular one.

• I don't like the "catsup" spelling. What's the origin?

• They are all nasty flavor maskers...try mayo.

• We make our own. The commercial ones are just nasty, and we have so many extra tomatoes it's easy to put enough up. People are so lazy. But if they lack discriminating tastes, there's probably no loss.

• Homemade.

• I make my own ketchup right after I finish making my own mayonnaise, salsa, barbecue sauce, bath soap, and laundry detergent. I used the same pots, pans, and utensils for all so there's less clean up.

• R13, don't be silly. There is no reason for a normal person to bother making soaps and detergents, unless one has sufficient potash and lanolin from other endeavors and one doesn't want to apply them to other uses. Of course the foodstuffs mentioned naturally are made at home. What self-respecting person would do otherwise. You make it sound like it's some sort of achievement. And naturally one doesn't use the same pots and pans, not that with proper cleaning it couldn't be done - the accoutrements used for all these things are different. Everyone knows that. It could just be my natural suspiciousness, but I suspect you were trying to make some sort of snappy joke to cover the fact that you know more about the availability of various flavored potato chip products across a range of convenience stores in your area than you know about simple tasks that any person of quality and cheer knows. Next time you sink your yellow bicuspids into a pawful of Frunt's Extra Salty Jalapeno Huevos Ranch Sweet Pickle Chips with Thai Spices, take a moment to consider your sad state. And why your face is now indelibly a fluorescent magenta.

  R11

• R9, ketchup originated as a vinegar-based sauce in what is now Indonesia. At the time it was the Dutch East Indies. The spelling of the Indonesian language (a variety of Malay) was standardized by the Dutch according to the rules of Dutch orthography. The sounds that are spelled "ketchup" in English are rendered "catsup" in Dutch spelling.

• R11, note that not everyone has land and space to plant 5000 tomatoes. Or is that hard to comprehend?

• [quote]It could just be my natural suspiciousness, but I suspect you were trying to make some sort of snappy joke Is that natural suspiciousness organic?

• r13, I make my own pots and pans and utensils, and cook over a fire from wood I grew and harvested myself.

• Oh yeah, R18? Well, I make my own air and water out the atoms that I create. Top THAT, bub!

  R13

• I make my own dishwashing detergent because after the phosphates were removed from automatic dishwasher detergents I couldn't get dishes clean in our hard water. It's a very simple formula and requires little effort. Sometimes it's not about homesteading mentality, it's a matter of necessity.

• Ketchup is for people who are poor and can't afford good food, so they put tomato on it.

• This is quite good - Heinz with balsamic:

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• When I was a kid my parents always bought Snider's Chile Pepper Catsup because it had a little hotness and zing. I don't know what happened to it, but I haven't seen it in years. It was much better than regular catsup/ketchup but apparently didn't survive.

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• Heinz is gross and too sugary. Presidents Choice, else Aylmer.

• Hey you homemakers why don't you post some of your recipes.

• If you hate ketchup so much, try Durkee's Dressing:

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• Those homemakers are full of shit!

• Those homemakers are full of frau!

• R10, I wouldn't put mayo on either of the two things I use ketchup for, grilled cheese sandwiches or French fries. It would get warm, and who wants warm mayo? Disgusting.

• R16, please quit making excuses for substandard quality of life grounded in laziness and lack of vision. And, of course, it does not take 5000 tomato plants to produce ketchup. A few score will cover all tomato uses (fresh, dried, sauced (including ketchup), and so on. Again, if you have the taste buds of a hyena, by all means enjoy the commercial products designed and shelved for your kind. However, it is simply the arrogance of the low to complain that others live better by effort and inclination. Envy is such as ugly thing.

  R16

• The best ketchup was Brooks, but they went out of business. It was made at a St. Louis suburb, I think on the Illinois side of the river, and the factory had a water tank in the shape of their iconic bottle. It was a few years ago when I drove by there and saw the water tower, and it was rusty and in poor condition, so I don't know if it is still there. I think they may have used the catsup spelling, because I remember that my brother and I would call it cat soup. It was very spicy and tangy.

• I just bought a jar of Sir Kensington's. I like it.

• [quote]Envy is such as ugly thing. WHAT A CUNT!

• For the most part it doesn't matter to me. Store brand, Heinz, Hunt's, whatever. I like some better, but not enough to make a difference. But, I'm sure DL has some ketchup status queens.

• [quote]The best ketchup was Brooks, but they went out of business. No that's not true. What you mean is: "The ketchup I liked the best was Brooks." If they had truly been the best, they'd be in business. Please don't project inaccurate statements.

• R35, do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go straight to hell. signed/R31

• [quote] I wouldn't put mayo on either of the two things I use ketchup for, grilled cheese sandwiches or French fries. Ketchup on grilled cheese?

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• Red Gold.

• r30 is a pretentious twat.

• Is R35 truly naive enough to believe the only reason a company goes out of business is the quality of its product? Also, has R35 ever unclenched that sphincter? I had forgotten about Brooke's. It really was quite good.