6mo ago

What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.

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"Only white people put ketchup in the fridge." - my Mexican roommate
- non refrigerated ketchup always tastes funky unless it's the kind that's packed with a large enough buttload of preservatives that they no longer have to put "refrigerate after opening" on the bottle.
  
  I just realized ketchup in restaurants stay out at room temperature.
  
  Resutrants are going though it at a much quicker pace than your bottle at home.
  
  Some might put them in the fridge when they close or even have many extra so that they can be rotated in and out. But, given the frequent state of ice machines in restaurants, it wouldn't surprise me if the way condiments are handled is less than ideal.
  Though, on the other hand, if it's not resulting in a bunch of cases of food poisoning, maybe it serves as immune system training that just gives you an ick feeling when you realize what's been going on this whole time.
  Many places use those individually sealed packets, too. Ketchup bottles usually say "refrigerate after opening", so those things are probably fine, other than maybe plastic content.
- Personally, I refrigerate anything that says Refrigerate after opening. Even if it's preceded by For best results. Ketchup falls into that category.
- Ketchup belongs in the fridge, to cut the heat. Otherwise it's too spicy.
  
  There’s two very distinct brands of white people: The “I like boiled meats because browning it makes it too spicy” brand, and the “if it’s not making me cry and shit bloody fire, it’s too bland” brand. There is no in between.
  
  Wat. Tomatoes are spicy?
  
  FWIW Mexicans don't know what spicy is, either. They think Tapatío is spicy.
  source: I'm half Mexican.
  
  I think it's because chamoy usually doesn't need refrigerated.
  
  I'm laughing way too hard at this thank you
- I always had ketchup in the fridge because it gives the mustard company.
- I like the temperature contrast between cold ketchup and hot food so mine is in the fridge.
- The best before date is based on it being refrigerated and the reason why we do it is to slow bacteria multiplication to a crawl
- Growing up, our ketchup came in plastic bottles with that little aluminum seal between the nozzle and the bottle. Our rule was it stayed in the pantry until the seal came off, then it went in the fridge.
  To your roommate's credit, we are "my brother got sunburns in winter" white.
- Ketchup is for kids. Fight me
  
  I'll fight you on this. Gatekeeper anything by saying it should or shouldn't be used by a demographic will limit the amount of positive interactions you'll have in your life.
  
  Oh no, does that mean that people who enjoy diabetes tomato juice don't like me? That's terrible.
  
  My dude, this is one of the strangest hills I have ever seen someone defend with such animosity.
  
  Ketchup is pretty meh to me and my opinion is that, for the most part, anything you put ketchup on is just going to taste like ketchup. So my rule of thumb is that if its dry as fuck or tastes worse that ketchup, add ketchup. Otherwise don't cause it's just going to make it taste worse.
  Gatekeeping is dumb though, but I appreciate your desire for a pointless argument.
  
  It has its uses but they are rare. Hamburgers and fries is really about it. Maybe chicken nuggets. I don’t even bother keeping any in the house it’s so rare I use it.
  
  It’s far from the best option even for those.
  The only proper use is meatloaf.
  
  Ok I forgot about meatloaf. We can add that to the list. That puts us at what, like four things?
  
  That's why I dip my fries in tomato soup

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