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What fucking godless heathen eats rice with ketchup

Americans. They would even eat old car tires with ketchup.

I’ve never heard of anyone eating rice with ketchup before.

I like white rice with cheddar cheese and ketchup. Best to cube your cheese up from a block and put it on last with the ketchup so it doesn't melt.

You should see how i make tea.

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Ketchup rice is a Japanese dish. https://www.chopstickchronicles.com/ketchup-rice/#recipe

That's fried rice, not white rice steamed or cooked in a rice cooker. I can imagine putting ketchup on a nigiri and immediately getting scolded in Japan.

more like people in America sometimes eat it. just like how people everywhere sometimes do everything and stupid nationalism only divides everybody more.

I've never seen a fellow citizen that was older than 9 eat rice w/ ketchup.

It's butter, salt & black pepper in the southern USA, at least.

Haha I don't know many American adults who eat ketchup on more than a few foods. Maybe burgers, maybe hot dogs, probably french fries. Most of us hate how it smells too.

Hell, burgers are the only thing I’d consider it for, and even then I’ll look for something else first more often than not

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Have you never tried it? It's quite good, though I haven't done it since I was a child.

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As an Asian this whole thread feels so weird and I can't tell if people actually eat rice with ketchup or they are tricking me into trying an abomination

French here. I admit I used to eat rice with ketchup when I was a kid. I'm disgusted with myself thinking about it now.

I used to eat ketchup sandwiches when I was a kid. Just ketchup between two pieces of bread.

I also liked yogurt and cottage cheese mixed together.

Kids are weird.

You frenchies do some nasty shit sometimes. Very high cuisine but the day to day sometimes is weird (I have some colleagues that told me this)

I mean it's more like childrens' food so abomination is a bit of an exaggeration but it's certainly nothing interesting. It's rice with ketchup.

Why can't y'all just make normal children's food like chicken curry with rice? Stop putting so much sugar and corn syrup in everything.

If this continues we'll have to retaliate: see how certain East Asian countries make pizzas and burgers and see how you like it! (PS: it was flatbread with corn and ham as the only toppings)

Oh and the original answer: since so many people have already answered soy sauce, I'd say chicken soup or pork broth.

(PS: it was flatbread with corn and ham as the only toppings)

You’re leaving out the mayo though, aren’t you?

I wouldn't say it's common, but I also wouldn't say it's unheard of...and I would never put it past Americans to try an odd condiment application.

Honestly though, when you look at the ingredients, it's not too drastically far off from the ingredients of a sauce you might specifically put together as part of a more traditional rice dish: tomatoes, vinegar, onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin... bit heavy on the sugar but a lot of sauces in Asian cooking are even sweeter.

I agree it seems repulsive on the surface to me too, but now that I've been thinking about it...I kinda wanna try it.

Soy sauce

If you're asking who'd put rice with ketchup - my sister used to put ketchup on her popcorn. Microwave popcorn. Pre-buttered.

I'm sorry you had to see such depravity, and so close to home

That was a difficult up vote because my thumb was just so disgusted with your sister

Butter, parmesan, salt and pepper

Remove butter, put EVO, remove parmisan, put Parmigiano Reggiano, you have a masterpiece

I tried searching for EVO but just came up with a pan/bowl type. Could you tell an uninformed fool (me) what is EVO?

Extra virgin olive oil. I'm Italian :D

I get 5L per year from my uncle who produce it in Tuscany

Oh man, I should have known that. Thanks for the assist!

Agree, I dont have reliable access to EVOO or good parmigiana. If I had my way all the time it would be thyme and lavender and oregano infused olive oil with cucumbers as well as a three way mixed Parmigiana, Asiago, Oaxaca or dried mozarella.

Ketchup would be one of my last choices anyway. Maybe with certain mains like fried chicken or chicken fried steak (ok, some people say that's weird but it's what we did at Furr's Cafeteria).

Right now, probably Marie Sharp's Beware Habanero sauce. Second choice, chimichurri.

Those bottles of chili crisp with the face of an angry/disappointed looking Asian lady on the label. So good.

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So good! Ty their other sauces as well. I think there's four or five available in the US.

Raw egg cracked in and beaten to temper and cook in piping hot rice. A little soy sauce. Maybe some sesame seeds.

Tamago kake gohan.

Mayonnaise.

Excellent! I thought I was the only deranged person who loves freshly cooked rice with some mayo. I've noticed a lot of people really look down on mayonnaise for some reason, when all it is, is some egg and oil, salt optional but great IMO, and some lemon juice to complement, also optional. I feel that just goes really well with a starch like rice!

I don't want to entirely pull the rug out from under you, but you may still be the only person who loves that. I was making what I intended to be an obviously disgusting joke. I'm sorry. :P

Well I was disgusted if it makes you feel any better.

You're forgiven. I know I'm not the only person though, I'm Chilean and we love putting mayo on everything over there. I'm just deranged to the rest of the world lol.

My 9 year old literally eats steamed rice with ketchup and if given this choice he would just it to die.

Your 9 year old just offended countries where rice is a large part of their food culture

They tend to do that. 9yo humans are just naturally offensive creatures 🤷

The sad story is he was diagnosed with Celiac at 3, and as such has grown up with a lot of food issues. It's developed into like a fear of new foods, and his crutch is ketchup, which is the lesser of evils at this point. We think it's crossed into ARFID, and he's in OT.

Oof, has he tried soy sauce or teriyaki?

Copying my reply to someone else, the sad story is he was diagnosed with Celiac at 3, and as such has grown up with a lot of food issues. It's developed into like a fear of new foods, and his crutch is ketchup, which is the lesser of evils at this point. We think it's crossed into ARFID, and he's in OT.

KEWPIE Deep-Roasted Sesame Dressing and Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce

This combo hits all the right flavor notes.

Femboy cum

That's disgusting. Where do you source yours? So I can avoid it of course.

I can provide you with some locally and ethically sourced. For testing purposes of course

Omg, yes, buy or cultivate local, don't support those immoral femboy farm megacorps, they keep their femboys in cages & bdsm milked 24/5 (they get weekends off).

sounds like good times NGL

You think they get to rest?

Look, is anyone else get to rest in this capitalist hellscape?! At least I get to enjoy some good bdsm in that farm.

It's not all fun and games - if you are too good at your job you get promoted to quality control.

Blood, blood! Gallons of the stuff!

Sweet chili or Tonkatsu.

I'm probably going to be slaughtered by an angry mob for mentioning this, but pesto also works.

Sweet and Sour, makes like a pseudo-dessert thing. That or soy dosed with wasabi~

alfredo sauce. brings me right back to big family nights out at olive garden when my dad would slip the waiter five bucks to pretend like they just ran out of pasta

Good rice, well prepared, needs no sauce. Ketchup wouldn’t even enter my mind.

Do you really believe that people who have sunken so low that they consider ketchup would have either used good rice or would know how to prepare it properly?

Mashing feta cheese into hot rice is amazing

Just recently I ate rice with some sweet soy sauce, kewpie mayo, and spicy chili sauce. The chili sauce can be replaced with some ketchup instead if it's out.

apple sauce. seriously, try it.

don't mix them together right away, but scoop them after each other with a fork.

Okay but if you've never had rice with sesame seed dressing you're depriving yourself. Shit's like magic.

Kewpie and Maggi seasoning

Do you happen to watch a YouTuber named Beryl?

Nah I don't, should I be?

She's fantastic. she's done a bunch of stuff, but her main series is foods around the world. Like how they eat x food in y countries. She's a huge fan of Kewpie and Maggie. One of my top 5 food YouTubers.

Ooh thanks for the suggestion, will check it out after work.

Tamago-kake gohan. Mix up soy sauce and a raw egg and pour over the rice. If it's piping hot it will slightly cook. Great for a hangover!

GOOD soy sauce, not that brown salt water they sell everywhere as "soy sauce". The wasabi situation is even worse.

I have a friend who puts ketchup on ANYTHING. I've seen him order $30 medium rare steaks at nice restaurants and then smother them in ketchup. People we don't know at all have come up to us just to ask about it, and they've all left just as confused and angry about it as we (his friends) are.

Coconut syrup mangos and some crushed peanuts.

Mango sticky rice is amazing.

Growing up with my parents, butter. I know better now.

Nah. A little butter and brown sugar and cinnamon, it's basically rice pudding.

Kung pow sauce, thai sweet sour sauce, baked bean with egg, or roasted seaweed with sesame seed

I, obviously, would mix ketchup mayonnaise and mustard like some fucking baby.

There is no ketchup. In any form.

Man, no banana, no ketchup. What a deprived life!

I could definitely do without ketchup though. I already don't use it lol