Do you put sauce/ketchup on your food or on your plate?
By muscare
@muscare (3068)
Australia
April 26, 2008 8:48pm CST
Just wondering whether you like to put it all over whatever you are eating, or put a pile on your plate for dipping? I prefer to put it on my plate and dip, especially with pastry products. I find sauce makes the pastry go soggy if its smeared all over it. Do you have sauce with lots of different food, or just a few certain foods? Do you drown your food with it, or just add enough to add to the flavour?
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@muscare (3068)
• Australia
27 Apr 08
You like to dip, or is that swim in the sauce?! Have you got shares in Heinz? You would have been pleased here the other day, my wife opened a new sauce container and tipped it onto her plate, with a large amount 'ploomping' out. My son, ever the smarty, said 'Gee, have some sauce!'
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@jairgirl (2877)
• United States
28 Apr 08
hello there muscare!
i am a ketchup addict LOL! if i cooked hamburgers i put some on top but i will place a lot of it on the plate for burger and fries dipping or whatever partner i make for that day.
i like ketchup for almost all kinds of fried foods as well as pizza, yes pizza! haha!
regarding the sauces, depends on what kind of sauce it is, i personally dont like A1 sauce for my steak, my husband loves it but i hate the taste of it.
i think the only sauce i enjoy is the sweet and sour sauce and the others i dont care much unless i am forced to do so 
oh, when it comes to salad - i only like thee caesar and maybe ranch (only maybe coz it depends on my mood).
that is all 
takecare!
oh, when it comes to salad - i only like thee caesar and maybe ranch (only maybe coz it depends on my mood).
that is all
takecare!@muscare (3068)
• Australia
28 Apr 08
Hi jairgirl. Ketchup on pizza....ok, you really are an addict. So do you dip the pizza? Doesn't all the topping fall off? Here, we call ketchup 'tomato sauce', so other sauces that I will use are sweet chilli and worcestershire, thats mainly for cooking. I'm not really into dressing on salad, but I do like undressing....LOL, my wife, not the salad! Oops, wrong discussion!!
@jairgirl (2877)
• United States
28 Apr 08
yes! ketchup on pizza, you heard me right dad! (my dad-in-law ask the same thing LOL)
yup, i dip my pizza on it (not a lot though) and so far i have no problems toppings falling off, haha!
i didnt know you call it in down under as "tomato sauce" interesting haha!
oh i see you're not into dressing ei?
btw, it's getting hot in here talking about undressing LOL
i already undressed my salad last night,, oppppppsssss
my bad 
takecare
takecare
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
3 May 08
I prefer to take plain foods most of the time as I like their original taste, whereas my hubby utterly different from that of me. He loves to add chili sauce to the foods in his plate. He feels all the foods are tasteless if without any chili sauce added to them. Luckily that he has never drown his food with chili sauce but just places it aside of the foods in his plate.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
3 May 08
I feel that some foods do need a little extra flavour, but most I enjoy without any sauces. Does your hubby use a hot chilli sauce or a milder one. If he likes the hot, no wonder he thinks food is tasteless without, he's probably burnt off his tastebuds, LOL!
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@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
28 Apr 08
I would rather dip than smother..That way if I don't eat it all then I don't have to worry that it will get yukky...I very rarely eat anything like ketchup or such on my foods..I like my food plain...no salad dressing on my salads..just plain...
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
28 Apr 08
Hi Feona, I'd have to say that there are certainly a lot more foods that I don't have sauce on then I do, and like you, I like my salads undressed....undressed, he, he! Oh, oh, my last reply started to go down this path also. I must be a little distracted today, LOL!
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
28 Apr 08
Close the refrigerator door, I'm dressing...LOL..I just like my stuff plain..Less is more...Keep it simple...I'm sure someone else made your discussion go down the wrong path..LOL..Sure, blame the other guy...
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
28 Apr 08
Yeah, I find it interesting that I can but the same cut of steak from different shops and they will taste different. Now I just buy my favourite steak from the plce it tastes better! I do find that if someone else cooks my steak and overcooks it, I may use sauce to it.
@kriskhedkar (877)
• India
27 Apr 08
I like to dip into the sause and dont like to take it directly on the top of food. If sometime the sause doesnt test good then u always have a chace of chaging ur sause if u r piling it for dipping thats one of the reason.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
27 Apr 08
I put it on my plate unless it's a burger..hotdog or eggs. Otherwise I am a dipper....and I use different sauces for different things. I like chicken strip in honey dijon..ranch on some things and ketchup on others....but I don't drown them! I like it to enhance the flavor.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
27 Apr 08
I agree, hotdogs and burgers do need sauce on them, although I've never had sauce on eggs. My wife use to, so much you could hardly even see the eggs, but doesn't anymore. I also like just enough to enhance the flavour. I like chicken nuggets with sweet chilli sauce, but only the mild one.
