Topic: My friends are trying to get me to stop using ketchup.
Blayne Bradley
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On a nearly daily occurrence, I go to college, and around lunchtime I go to the CF Clubroom to enjoy my lunch, I brought a little container of ketchup roughly the size of a small soup bowl to pour onto my food, and everyone keeps trying to confiscate it saying "your going to have a heart attack at 30 and die blayne" "why dont you go a week without ketchup blayne".
Jebus if I had a choice between dying at 30 and not having ketchup I choose DYING AT THIRTY! One time I had brought a bottle over and someone hid it from me.
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I feel like you'd have to ingest some pretty large quantities before the sodium started causing problems.
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i put it on everything thats a "Bread" or a "Meat" also includes Pickles and Hot peppers.
Ild say for a standard "to-go" cateferia meal thats a roughly 2 square foot container.
Let say if its filed with macaroni salad, I need enough ketchup to ensure every gram has an even coating.
I think the formula goes like this where f(x) is the amount I need, it will equal to the mass of the amount of food divided by x where x equals number of of the tiny little "hats" that restaurants give to fill up with ketchup.
So for a buger thats 3-4, a large fry I theororize requaires 10 packages or 1 half filled bowl. (3 inches high 4 inches wide), extra required if hot peppers are added.
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How do you actually eat a burger with three fluid ounces of ketchup on it? Doesn't it spill out?
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Other than the HFCS and stuff, it isn't. Depending on what you mean by "stuff."
Of course, if you're drowning all your food in ketchup, this may wind up exacerbating other eating disorders you already have. Not tasting what you're eating is surely going to contribute to a general lack of mindfulness about your food.
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I did have to normalize my sodium intake during my first pregnancy. My swelling was rather extreme until I did.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: Ild say for a standard "to-go" cateferia meal thats a roughly 2 square foot container.
Is my understanding wrong, or is that a freaking huge food container?
And I'm with Tom, how do you keep the ketchup from squirting out? Do you wear a towel while you eat?
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Blayne Bradley
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I hold my burger like so pour a bit on, take a bite out of it usually the exact area I have ketchup on, then pour MORE on, then take a bite of that, and again, and again, rinse and repeat. I generally only a little bit on the patty itself, the rest I pour on it as I eat it to maximize the amount of ketchup consumed.
Its not "2 feet" its two SQUARE feet or more accurately 2 feet cubed since its a 3 dimensional space, 1 side to 1 side is roughly 2 hands holding it from the buttom give or take a few fingers.
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There's nothing wrong with ketchup... It's pretty much the universal condiment. I remember reading an article awhile back on why there are so many variations of mustard, but ketchup is ketchup. Alternate flavors of ketchup just don't sell.
But... That is a lot of ketchup Blayne. Maybe try some hot sauce, which is what I currently bathe most of my foods in. Posts: 382 | Registered: Jan 2008
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: I hold my burger like so pour a bit on, take a bite out of it usually the exact area I have ketchup on, then pour MORE on, then take a bite of that, and again, and again, rinse and repeat. I generally only a little bit on the patty itself, the rest I pour on it as I eat it to maximize the amount of ketchup consumed.
I am frightened to find that I have something in common with Blayne.
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quote:Originally posted by Godric 2.0: I remember reading an article awhile back on why there are so many variations of mustard, but ketchup is ketchup.
quote:Its not "2 feet" its two SQUARE feet or more accurately 2 feet cubed since its a 3 dimensional space, 1 side to 1 side is roughly 2 hands holding it from the buttom give or take a few fingers.
Um....I don't think you know what a square foot is, much less a cubic foot. But, that said, that's still a pretty huge container.
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quote:Originally posted by Godric 2.0: I remember reading an article awhile back on why there are so many variations of mustard, but ketchup is ketchup.
See.. This is why I love this place. I did a quick search, but couldn't locate the link. Still, here it is. And is was an article by Malcolm Gladwell! I don't think I even noticed that the first time I read it.
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Modern Ketchup is red painted sugar in oil.
Go to a farmers market and buy some homemade Ketchup. You get to taste odd things like Tomato when you use it.
One of the biggest problems with drowning your food in ketchup is that you drown your taste buds as well. You don't develop an appreciation of the subtleties of flavor, instead equating Sweet and Oily with good.
Its like reading only comic books. You will read the classics, as long as they are in comic form. Graphic Novels are ok, but they aren't as short and sweet as true comics.
You will enjoy Comics all the time, but never get the enjoyment out of books, because they don't have the colored pictures.
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Mabye you should share the ketchup.
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Blayne Bradley
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strangely one of the complaints rendered is that by "eating so much ketchup in the company of others I risk causing someone to gain allergies to ketchup, kill someone"
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: strangely one of the complaints rendered is that by "eating so much ketchup in the company of others I risk causing someone to gain allergies to ketchup, kill someone"
utterly ridiculous.
Well, logic and reason weren't working. It's an understandable development in persuasion tactics.
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quote:Originally posted by The White Whale: JonHecht, that's my undergraduate school paper! I know that guy! In fact, I wrote two articles for that very same issue (Beer and Sky)!
quote:Originally posted by Godric 2.0: I remember reading an article awhile back on why there are so many variations of mustard, but ketchup is ketchup.
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1 cubic foot equals 7.46 gallons/28.32litres Since (most) food sinks in water, a cubic foot of (warm) food would weigh more than 62pounds/28.12kilograms*.
Weird knowing that, excluding excess body fat and the volume of air in the lungs, most women occupy less than 2cubic feet of space and most men occupy less than 3cubic feet. And that it'd take ~188million people to fill the Boeing building.
* Nearly-freezing water weighs 1kilogram per litre. Water at 100degreeFahrenheit/37.7degreesCelsius weighs a smidgeon less
I dunno about eating that much ketchup daily, but it's probably got less going against it than the soda on the tray to its left and the french fries on the tray to its right.
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Why don't people just accept that Blayne likes a lot of ketchup and let him ten gallons at every meal if that's what he wants? It's rude even to notice, much less comment upon, what someone else is eating.
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And am I the only one who thinks the complaint is rather bizarre: "My friends would rather I didn't die! Oh, darn their treacherous ways!"
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quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Why don't people just accept that Blayne likes a lot of ketchup and let him ten gallons at every meal if that's what he wants? It's rude even to notice, much less comment upon, what someone else is eating.
I'm assuming you're referring to Blayne's friends who have been trying to intervene?
Slight nitpick: rudeness, being a social phenomenon, can't occur just by noticing.
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Blayne Bradley
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quote:Originally posted by JonHecht: And am I the only one who thinks the complaint is rather bizarre: "My friends would rather I didn't die! Oh, darn their treacherous ways!"
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scifibum, yes, I'm referring to Blayne's friends. About the finer point, you can only notice if you don't indicate by eyes or facial expression that you've noticed. In that case, you haven't noticeably noticed, so it doesn't count as noticing. Is that perfectly clear? Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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quote:Originally posted by aspectre: 1 cubic foot equals 7.46 gallons/28.32litres Since (most) food sinks in water, a cubic foot of (warm) food would weigh more than 62pounds/28.12kilograms*.
So he's eating the weight of an average person (at least 124 lbs by your calculation) every lunch. O_o
I think he's got bigger health risks to worry about than ketchup...
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Your friends' concern is probably misplaced. I am nearly positive that if I got an accurate dietary log of your food consumption over a month, I could tell you for sure that your diet is disconcertingly unhealthy and will keep you fat/sluggish/hypertensive and the ketchup would be a minimal part of that.
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I read the article, thought, "this is really cool," told my husband, and was deflated when he informed me that India has many different types of popular ketchups.
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A few years ago, Ohio schools named ketchup as serving of fruits/vegetables!!!! If they served it with lunch, it counted as a serving. Not sure if this is still the case, but what were they thinking?
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For all true Republicans, ketchup is a vegetable. As a regestered Democrat, I would rather have broccoli. (except with McDonalds fries)
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But, that said, that's still a pretty huge container.
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