• RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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        1 year ago

        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)

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      1 year ago

      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.