I love ketchup. Not love as in I make weird ketchup sandwiches every day, but I slather it on fries and burgers. Your standard ketchup vessels.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I left for college though that I realized my love of ketchup, and what I considered a suitable receiver of ketchup, differed from that of many Americans. I blame it on my Swedishness. And my father.\u00a0 He\u2019s the Swedish one.<\/p>\n
I put ketchup on meatballs. Not really all that out of the ordinary I don\u2019t think. It\u2019s just ground beef in ball form instead of patty form, either way, it is delicious. \u00a0No one has actually complained about me putting ketchup on my meatballs before. Which I appreciate.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019ve never actually seen anyone in this country do it either.<\/p>\n
People have complained about my potato eating habit though.\u00a0 Chopped up potatoes tossed into a skillet, pyttipanna if you will, is a delicious and surprisingly easy meal to throw together. Even for someone as culinarily (I think I just made that word up, but you know what I mean) inept as me.\u00a0 Chop up some potatoes, some ham, some onions, maybe a few other vegetables if you\u2019re feeling healthy, and you\u2019ve got yourself a delicious meal. One that is even more delicious smothered in ketchup. For some reason, people don\u2019t approve.\u00a0 But those people don\u2019t realize that chopped up potatoes in a frying pan are not a far cry from sliced potatoes in a deep fryer, i.e. French fries.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s my use of ketchup and pasta that really fires people up. I put ketchup on spaghetti. I know. People are horrified. Let\u2019s be honest here, it\u2019s still tomato sauce. Kind of.\u00a0 This is pretty standard in Sweden.\u00a0 Macaroni and ketchup is the fare of students, and kids everywhere seem to love ketchup on their spaghetti. It just so happened that I am once again a student, and actually never grew out of my love of ketchup on spaghetti. Therefore, I am allowed to eat ketchup on my spaghetti.<\/p>\n
What does this have to do with the Swedish language? Nothing. Except that the word for ketchup in Swedish is, yup, ketchup. And now you know.<\/p>\n
Try some ketchup on your next plate of spaghetti and let us know how it went!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love ketchup. Not love as in I make weird ketchup sandwiches every day, but I slather it on fries and burgers. Your standard ketchup vessels.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I left for college though that I realized my love of ketchup, and what I considered a suitable receiver of ketchup, differed from that of many…<\/p>\n