My dad was mad at the meat loaf last night.

More information please. He wants the ketchup baked on as a glaze or baked in? He couldn't simply ask for a side of ketchup?

Meatloaf is just a burger with no bun. 🤢

R2 that's ridiculous. The best burgers are 100% ground beef, in not too overly handled and mushed patties.

R1, the meatloaf comes covered in mushroom gravy (which was really good). Dad could have asked for a side of ketchup, I guess. But his biggest complaint was that the meatloaf was not baked with ketchup on top.

I guess he is used to poor people meatloaf: ketchup baked on top and TONS of filler to make the meatloaf last longer for a family of 6.

I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the meatloaf!

That's funny, I know a lady who was mad at the dirt...

R3 unless you are grinding your own steaks up at home to make burgers, no ground beef is 100% meat.

Was he really mad at the lack of ketchup or was it something else?

It could be how he likes it for nostalgia, but are his food tastes/selections limited? People like that often cannot compute things outside of their 15 lifelong dishes.

My uncle never cooks, limits where we can have family meals to American food restaurants and comes to the kitchen with such 1971 meal tips as, “Do you want to add curly parsley?” or “That could use some celery salt”.

This will teach him to ask. Or maybe you could ask about such things and inform him. He would have been better off with a plain steak and ketchup.

R7 - wow, where do you live where this is true?

The menu. Yum.

Eating out is a waste of money. Look at those prices r12.

Well it's THE Hershey Lodge.

Is it at an offramp of the Hershey Highway?

$38 meatloaf? It does sound good though, especially with the truffle mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy. I think I will try to find a similar recipe online.

I cannot imagine going out and ordering meatloaf at a restaurant. I have nothing against meatloaf, I occasionally make it at home. But I tend to order seafood because I live in a flyover state and it’s difficult for me to find quality seafood to cook. I’d order the scallops or yellowfin tuna.

Is this your dad or your "dad"?

Cheap truffle flavor ruins just about everything.

Lots of people order meatloaf at diners and casual restaurants.

This isn’t casual.

Well, quite frankly, your dad isn't all THAT, either.

It is unlikely that the meatloaf is entirely made of wagyu, and it'd be usual to serve ketchup with a meatloaf that comes with mushroom gravy.

[quote]People like that often cannot compute things outside of their 15 lifelong dishes.

FIFTEEN? More like FIVE.

Baby tastes.

R21 1) it doesn't have casual prices but look at it. It's a casual restaurant. 2) I was responding to R17 who is so dimwitted he can't imagine anyone ever ordering meatloaf at any restaurant. But R21, you're slow, as well.

Don’t let your meat loaf.

I think Americans are used to having a sweet-ish glaze on meatloaf. (I grew up with the Lipton onion soup meatloaf - which isn't sweet.) So, that's probably what OP's dad was missing, the sweetness.

However, that $38 meatloaf did sound good with the marsala mushroom gravy. I would also doubt that it's wagyu beef.

Dad may just be grouchy and stuck in his tastes. But reading the menu, I wouldn't have assumed there was going to be ketchup in that meatloaf.

People get embarrassed to ask for ketchup at expensive restaurants. While that restaurant may be "casual," there's a tomahawk rib chop (for 2) that costs $115 and surf and turf for $73.

If it were my mom or dad, I would have asked the waiter or waitress to bring Dad some ketchup, please.

Tourist trap in a tourist town. What could go wrong? Didn't no reservations Memorial Day - Labor Day tip you off?

My grandmother always said never order meatloaf out: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY PUT IN IT.

Was granny a you-might-get-hit-by-a-bus clean underwear advocate as well?

[quote] My dad was mad at the meat loaf last night.

Did he beat the meat?

R32 both hands

Hot!

"Mad at the meatloaf" reminds me of Joan Crawford. She wasn't mad at her housekeeper, she was mad at the dirt.

OP, maybe your dad was mad at you, but said he was mad at the meatloaf.

No, R31—far from it, actually.

Greg: Thoughts, please, on the nuances of meatloaf?

It will come as no surprise that I have the most amazing recipe for meatloaf.

I use 50% ground beef—good ground beef. Perhaps 85% lean. And 25% ground pork and 25% ground veal. I use crushed saltines for the filler. And I sauté finely minced onions and garlic. Some ground mustard, some Worcestershire sauce, a squeeze of tomato paste, some finely chopped parsley leaves and a beaten egg or two. I often put a mixture of light brown sugar, ketchup, and apple cider vinegar on top as it cooks.

Delicious!

He should just pop into the VCR a bootleg tape of Rocky Horror and enjoy his best performance of a lifetime.

Greg, thank you. You never fail!

You’re very welcome, R40.