So, today I discovered that I do not like eggs without lots of salsa, ketchup, or cheese. I have always loved eggs in the past, but as I sat eating my "egg burrito" I decided that I really hate them without something else to go with them. I mean, eggs are fine as a filler, but they just don't taste all that great.
Thinking back, I realize the reason I have tricked myself into liking eggs is that I have used tons of ketchup on them—Heinz Ketchup to be specific. (I do not allow a non-Heinz Ketchup brand in the house. Once, Emily brought something home called "catsup," and I did not know what it was, so I threw it away. This created a small "discussion" in our home about wasting food, but I still maintain that "catsup" is not a food. Plus, even if it was, who would want to eat something with the word "cat" in it. It is just gross. Frankly, anyone who cannot spell ketchup correctly should not be in the business of selling it. Ketchup, on the other hand, is so good that I am a full supporter of the Reagan Administration's effort to make it a vegetable. Unfortunately, my personal diet advisor is one of these liberal, nutritionist types and does not approve of the USDA's effort to reclassify ketchup as such.)
There really is nothing quite like Heinz Ketchup, and, as some of you may know, Heinz Ketchup is actually a perfect food. Seriously, you laugh, but it is. There are five known tastes that humans have: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and (my personal favorite) umami (okay, I only like it because of how it rolls off the tongue…umami!). Umami is a Japanese word that isn't exactly translatable into English, but it kind of means brothy, savory and meaty, all combined into one. Ketchup is one of the few foods that perfectly blends all of these elements and that is why I love it (there is a truly fascinating article written by Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker on this topic). Anyway, there are all of these people that pooh-pooh ketchup, and all I can say is that their palates must be so advanced that they don't see a perfect food when it is being squirted out of a plastic bottle right in front of their noses.
There really is nothing quite like Heinz Ketchup, and, as some of you may know, Heinz Ketchup is actually a perfect food. Seriously, you laugh, but it is. There are five known tastes that humans have: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and (my personal favorite) umami (okay, I only like it because of how it rolls off the tongue…umami!). Umami is a Japanese word that isn't exactly translatable into English, but it kind of means brothy, savory and meaty, all combined into one. Ketchup is one of the few foods that perfectly blends all of these elements and that is why I love it (there is a truly fascinating article written by Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker on this topic). Anyway, there are all of these people that pooh-pooh ketchup, and all I can say is that their palates must be so advanced that they don't see a perfect food when it is being squirted out of a plastic bottle right in front of their noses.
So, not much to say today, other than that I have decided that I hate eggs, which I can eat a lot of on my diet, and that I love ketchup, which I don't think I can eat any of on my diet. Kind of frustrating.
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Yes, Kethcup is cool and is a wonderful comfort food. But, if Kethcup is verboten on the diet, might I suggest a nice fresh alternative to spice up that egg protein? If you make a nice batch of salsa with fresh tomatoes and minced garlic, onion, and bell pepper, seasoned lightly with salt and pepper (or cayenne, if you like it hot) you can pour a little onto those egges every morning to complement the protein, if you're allowed to add fresh salsa, that is. Sure, it's not the real Ketchup, but it's busting with healthy flavor all the same.
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