workplaceBBQ --without ketchup, relish

[shootingstar]

Just returned from a 50th birthday dinner...am happy to report..that there was no ketchup nor relish. However other decadent food..some sort of grilled chicken rolled with bacon, chips, pop, etc. The birthday boy is a cyclist and so is his wife...but not everyone else at party.

I only like ketchup for fries...fries I have um..5 times annually. Always outside of home. If given a choice of relish or ketchup for a hamburger, I will tend take relish (and hope mustard pot was around). But then I have a hamburger....um..maybe once annually.

Neither he nor I have bought ketchup nor relish for home ..probably over past 15 yrs. He would have bought for his children. I grew up on diet where ketchup ...really was considered as cheapening..the taste of dish. Yea, sweet'n sour chicken chinese style made with ketchup..is awful. Better to use a small glob for a huge vat of homemade sauce for perkiness. Same for his mother who...is formally trained at college in fine German cooking and baking. His mother shudders at the thought of ketchup. Now, be nice...this woman bakes multi-layer fine cake tortes, chicken with wine sauces and white asparagus, traditional style.

Ooooooh I love mustard, all varieties --plain and gourmet. It was not always like this. I didn't acquire a taste for mustard until my late 20's. But a quality peameal bacon sandwich deserves....lots of mustard! One of my sisters had a passion for mustard and so easy to buy her one of her birthday gifts a gourmet pot of mustard.

I work for a German firm...so the ketchup absence probably was not a big deal. yea..too bad, the sauerkraut wasn't there. That's delicious with weisswurst (a German veal, light sausage). And yea, ketchup on buffalo sausage or rosemary-pork-blueberry-venison (they do sell that in our area) whatever gourmet sausage would be a big mistake.