He goes through bottles of the stuff. Why? Why? Why are people like this???!!!

But seriously, ew. Can I just have someone to validate my hatred? Everyone seems to adore tomato sauce, but it's way too intense for me and the flavour dominates everything. And not in a good way. The only way I can eat the stuff is by masking it with soy sauce. What is it about the weird not-quite-tomatoey, sugary, salty flavour that appeals to almost everyone? It's a confusing amalgam of chemical mush.

My girlfriend knows of my ketchup phobia but tonight she pranked me by putting ketchup on my arm. I feel violated and dirty.

Is the relationship salvageable?

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Besides acknowledging the smell is horrible and especially when it goes bad!

When I was in kindergarten I remember having some. I had some get on my shirt and when I licked it off, it was sour and terrible tasting.

I’m 29 and have only had ketchup a few times since. I tried eating it a while back and it ruined the burger. I don’t see how people like it.

I love tomatoes. I could eat them like one eats an apple. But I can’t stand ketchup

I hate ketchup, mayonnaise, salad cream, brown sauce, most bottled condiments. I’m not the biggest fan of mustard but I can’t say I don’t like it. I like BBQ sauce and mint yoghurt sauce and most of the spicy ones on the right foods.

Mini rant incoming, but I hate how when I order a cheeseburger or a hot dog or something usually associated with ketchup even if I ask for it without ketchup it somehow nearly always ends up on the thing anyways. It’s okay if I’m in the restaurant because usually I’ll just tell them and have it changed but sucks when I have it delivered on UE or something.

ANOTHER bit to add I had a full on argument with someone once about whether tomato pasta sauce and ketchup was different. Tomato pasta sauce is nice (homemade) not 5% tomato and then 50% sugar, 30% vinegar and 15% syrup 🤦‍♂️

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?