Hey everyone, long time follower, even longer despiser of ketchup. Coming from a long line of Polish-speaking immigrants who couldn’t cook, my family over-compensated by dowsing everything with ketchup, and I bear those scars to this day. But I digress…

I’m a lover of spicy foods, and I love dumping various hot sauces on Tex-Mex foods, BBQ, Cajun foods, or anything that mates nicely with a kick to the taste buds. One thing I have never understood is the love of Sriracha. To me, it’s the ketchup of the hot sauce world. It’s sickeningly sweet, doesn’t accomplish its goal of being spicy, and overall makes the dishes I put it on taste like crap. If anything needs spice, I’ll add chili oils, savory hot sauces, or vinegar-based pepper sauces.

To my fellow ketchup haters, I’m wondering if you have similar sentiments towards this “ketchup” of the hot sauce world.

I now fully embrace dipping 1 out of every 10 bites of my fries in ketchup.

hello ketchup hating friends :’) currently on a road trip with boyfriend and found this subreddit by accident trying to google why the smell of ketchup is soooo fking disgusting. i think its strange this is so polarizing so i thought—maybe its an enzyme thing? like cliantro? what do yall think?

Shits nasty as fuck and it makes me gag whenever i smell it.

KETCHUP BELONGS IN AN INCINERATOR!

Hello all, I hope you are doing well. I just wanted to share my ketchup experience with you. I’ve always been somewhat of a picky eater, but I will try new things. One thing I never wanted to try was ketchup, because the smell and look were absolutely disgusting to me even when I was a kid. When I was around 10, my friends and their parents convinced me to try a bit of it on a French fry. I eventually gave in, and they got mad at me for instantly throwing up at the table. Thank you for hearing my story.

Hi my name is Akita and I hate ketchup.

Hello friends.

I recently stumbled upon a video referencing school field trips, and it sent me into a hazey downward spiral. For it reminded me of a fateful day around 4th grade when I was subjected to heinous crimes against humanity.

We were at a waterpark on a school field trip, and we got burgers and fries from the snack shack for lunch. They were bland and I was dehydrated. I frantically looked for salt at the pickup station. I desperately asked the employee for some. And this BITCH middle aged parent chaperone lady standing there said "Just use ketchup. Ketchup has salt in it." and kicked me on my way. Like it doesnt have more corn syrup than sodiu. The real nasty offbrand kind in the packets god knows are how old cuz they don't have expiry dates too. No mustard or mayo or ranch of any kind was avaliable.

It was traumatizing. Clearly child ahuse. And some 2 decades later I don't think I will ever recover. Shit was nasty. I was just a little boy. I didn't know no betta.

Please pray for me. And feel free to donate to my therapy fund. Thank you.

Company bought pizza for lunch today. A guy grabs two slices and promptly adds large amounts of ketchup to them both. I thought I might throw up.

It feels like I'm the opposite of most people. I could eat a raw tomato like an apple, but hate tomato based sauces or ketchup.

I hate ketchup and no one understands me. I was really craving a hamburger, nothing fancy, just a burger. But I don’t normally order hamburgers because everyone puts ketchup on them, and 1/2 the time I ask for no ketchup they still put ketchup on it. The closest fast food to me is Burger King so I looked up their menu online to see if they had any burgers without ketchup and I found one with just mayonnaise on it (mayo is cool with me). So I drove all the way there and ordered it in meal, and didn’t check the bag until I got home. IT HAD KETCHUP ON IT. My fiancé doesn’t understand why I won’t eat the burger. I don’t want to wipe it off with a paper towel because It never EVER get the ketchup taste off, it seeps into the bun and cheese. I f***** hate ketchup, I hate that it’s on everything. It over powers everything it’s on and it tastes nasty. No one ever agrees with me.

Something I heard on the news today.
Bad news: Climate change.
But! Damage to tomato harvests in California could cause a shortage of the vile red barfjuice.

Think about how many tomatoes are grown, picked, processed into sugar paste, and pumped into disgusting little plasti-foil packets...only to be ultimately discarded, unused, into trashcans at homes and restaurants.

Even if you don't hate ketchup, how often are you using ALL of the literal fistful of ketchups most fast food joints just toss into a bag whether you ask for it or not.

Think about all the water, fertilizer, and petroleum we end up wasting to make available what is essentially an option.

This, my tasteful brothers and sisters, is the true source of my ketchuphate; it is not only a crime against my tastebuds, culinary decency, or a healthy lifestyle; it is a crime against humanity, and attack on the very planet we call home.

it’s not the worst thing ever in my opinion