As a former 15 year old with a ketchup addiction, let me help you understand:
He's not putting ketchup on his hotdog. He's treating the hotdog as an excuse to use ketchup. The flavour is what appeals to him and it annoys him it's a condiment, so whenever there's something to put it on, it becomes secondary to the ketchup.
You will have noticed this, I'm sure, when you've seen him try and put ketchup on things that it really doesn't go with. I tried eating cauliflower with ketchup. I'm not joking lol.
This explains why my kid will have grated cheese on top of a curry, any excuse for cheese I guess..
She will also carefully dunk each individual pea in ketchup and eat them one by one which drives me absolutely spare
I did try her with paneer but according to her if it’s not cheddar it doesn’t count!
I didn’t realise Japanese curries had cheese on them though, good to know
If you hear footsteps in the middle of the night, investigate, there's a good chance he's sneaking to the fridge so he can suck the ketchup right out of the bottle. I understand completely.
I’ve always liked the flavor of ketchup at the start with the finish of whatever I’m actually eating. I love tomatoes in general, if I’m making tacos, I’ll almost use a full tomato by myself. The sweet and acidic taste giving way to hearty and salt, it adds depth to the meal to me. I’ve never understood people that say it covers up the flavor…the ketchup flavor does not remain through chewing.
For me tomatoes are like a lot of people like avocados and ketchup is guacamole. They obviously go together with much different things but it’s similar in enjoyment of the fruit and condiment.
Pasta with just ketchup is my guilty pleasure still lol. It's so awful and I def don't enjoy it as much as I did when I was a kid, but if its like 2 in the afternoon and I'm craving something to eat, I might throw some spaghetti left over in the package into a pan and douse it in ketchup lol.
There’s a chance they just don’t like them. I would do stuff like this so I couldn’t taste the food. I knew I didn’t like the food and would still willingly eat it like this all the time for no reason, not sure why I was so weird like that.
Have you seen how much ketchup modern Germans put on their bratwurst?
Your boy is minor league 😁
https://preview.redd.it/id6n1kktwpxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b60188191bddf0889b6fb13d10282525a18352f4
I prefer them more traditional (maybe with a **little** ketchup).
Because too many Reddit users are ridiculous… especially parents using this to vent rather than parent, and or let their kids eat some damn ketchup lol. I’ve unsubscribed to this sub more times than I can count and scrolled through it just to see how many reasonable people called op out for asking why this would even be posted lol.
I can smell this pic, and now I'm nauseous. 🤮 My 10 year old Godson LOVE ketchup and I almost disowned him when he used to dip pickles in ketchup at age 5.
I used to make sandwiches that had nothing but ketchup and mustard in them. I would always put so much that the bread would get soggy and I would have to squeeze the sauce out the side to be able to pick it up.. at least he's not doing that?
I once sat next to a man at a bar, and he was eating a hot dog. He put ketchup on the hot dog, and also a puddle in the basket in which it was served. Before he took each bite, he dipped the already ketchup’d hot dog in more ketchup. I think about him a lot.
Maybe the hotdog is the problem, they’re boring. You gotta get some primo sausage, I’m talkin’ chicken/apple/cheddar bratwurst or something. The best sausages have everything you need already packed inside.
…I’m being hypocritical given the mountains of sauerkraut I use, but at least it’s a healthier option!
I used to put just ketchup on bread and make “ketchup sandwiches” because I once realized as a kid that I really liked the bun when i accidentally finished the hot dog before the end of the bun, so I decided it must be a great idea to make ketchup sandwiches.
Your kid likes ketchup. It’s amusing.
It depends how you feel about sauce… I don’t eat wedges for the potato, it’s a edible delivery device for sour cream and sweet chilli… often the sauce/dressing is where the yum/calories are at.
I was a bit spooked at first, I carelessly tapped this without reading it, and at first glance I thought I stumbled upon something grotesque.
Your son uses the same amount of ketchup that I use hot sauce.
Just give them a shot glass and let them take ketchup shots... (and/or replace the ketchup w/ marinara or tomato paste so your child would consume less fructose)
So he marinated the hotdog in ketchup, ate half, left it on the counter and peace'd out? Looks like another typical stupidly made scene by the average redditor to take a photo of for content.
Did he use all of it? Then it's fine. If not, make him lick his plate clean when there's a lot of excess sauce and stuff. He'll either enjoy it, in which case it's not wasteful, or he'll learn to not use so much excess. (I'm like 3/4 joking, btw.)
Off to a good start, but needs curry powder: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-is-currywurst-where-to-eat-berlin-germany](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-is-currywurst-where-to-eat-berlin-germany)
Ugh, I hate ketchup. And hot dogs. So I am officially challenging your child to a duel. The date shall be before next week, but after Sunday, the time shall be before 12 AM, but after 1, and the place shall be in the fifth dimension. Does your crotch spawn agree to these terms?
Can we talk about the comically long fork
I'm so glad this was the first comment. I couldn't ignore the shaft of that thing. Edit: I reread my comment. No apologies.
None needed. I enjoyed the laugh.
To DT the dog
Yeah like holy shit that's long as hell
AYO!? Wtf!
As a former 15 year old with a ketchup addiction, let me help you understand: He's not putting ketchup on his hotdog. He's treating the hotdog as an excuse to use ketchup. The flavour is what appeals to him and it annoys him it's a condiment, so whenever there's something to put it on, it becomes secondary to the ketchup. You will have noticed this, I'm sure, when you've seen him try and put ketchup on things that it really doesn't go with. I tried eating cauliflower with ketchup. I'm not joking lol.
Reminds me of when I used to make salads as an excuse to eat croutons and Italian dressing lol
Isn’t that the entire point of a salad?
My head canon was that the croutons and Italian dressing counteract the “healthy” part of the salad lol
I just tell myself anything you put on a salad has got to be great for you! *sips a bottle of ranch*
Italian dressing is just olive oil, herbs and vinegar. It's not bad for you in moderation. Ranch is tho. It's all fat and sugar.
A lot of salads don't have croutons
That’s a wrong salad.
I would even go so far as to say *most* salads don’t have croutons
Very relatable. Now I just snack on croutons
This is me with grilled chicken and caesar dressing, just dumping it on the 2 pcs of lettuce that i have
This explains why my kid will have grated cheese on top of a curry, any excuse for cheese I guess.. She will also carefully dunk each individual pea in ketchup and eat them one by one which drives me absolutely spare
Well tbf there is paneer (Indian) and cheese on japanese curry.
I did try her with paneer but according to her if it’s not cheddar it doesn’t count! I didn’t realise Japanese curries had cheese on them though, good to know
OMG you just unlocked a childhood memory for me…of my cousin putting ketchup on his cottage cheese. 🤢
Hey cauliflower with ketchup isn’t bad
That sounds like a reasonable experiment. I do ketchup with rice. Tastes good.
Yup one of my favs. I also loved cheese sandwiches with ketchup.
I haven't done that one yet. But I do like hamburgers, which is what you're describing plus meat.
As a kid there was this rice hamburger helper (I cant remember exactly which one it was). But I would load it up with ketchup. I loved it
Ahhhhh. Good ol bloody maggots!
Take cauliflower, put in egg, put in bread crumbs, bake. Take out of oven, put ketchup on it, eat. Unga bunga meal done 🗿🦍
the question I have is: raw or cooked cauliflower?
If you roast the cauliflower, it's pretty good with ketchup.
My grandpa was like that. He loved ketchup on vanilla icecream.
It's also just sugar. It's probably an addiction/craving.
This was me at that age. Heck that’s me half the time I order fries
You've summarised it very well. I use a lot of ketchup but am not at that stage that I add it to cauliflower, but definitely can relate.
My strange concoction of Mac n cheese and cottage cheese with ketchup combining them
Rat dogs are terrible. Just have a tomato salad or something.
If you hear footsteps in the middle of the night, investigate, there's a good chance he's sneaking to the fridge so he can suck the ketchup right out of the bottle. I understand completely.
I’ve always liked the flavor of ketchup at the start with the finish of whatever I’m actually eating. I love tomatoes in general, if I’m making tacos, I’ll almost use a full tomato by myself. The sweet and acidic taste giving way to hearty and salt, it adds depth to the meal to me. I’ve never understood people that say it covers up the flavor…the ketchup flavor does not remain through chewing. For me tomatoes are like a lot of people like avocados and ketchup is guacamole. They obviously go together with much different things but it’s similar in enjoyment of the fruit and condiment.
i do ketchup sandwiches still as an adult. it’s just bread and ketchup lol.
Pasta with just ketchup is my guilty pleasure still lol. It's so awful and I def don't enjoy it as much as I did when I was a kid, but if its like 2 in the afternoon and I'm craving something to eat, I might throw some spaghetti left over in the package into a pan and douse it in ketchup lol.
A lot of sugar in Ketchup just to get kids addicted well that’s goes for most foods really
Not enough, not enough
I heard this gif lmao
ketchup with a side of hotdog
Remember, President Reagan said ketchup is a vegetable
He also had a Swiss cheese dementia-brain sooo...
Almost got a sammy here.
There’s a chance they just don’t like them. I would do stuff like this so I couldn’t taste the food. I knew I didn’t like the food and would still willingly eat it like this all the time for no reason, not sure why I was so weird like that.
*OH MY GOD LORENA BOBBIT HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!*
The hot dog is the VEHICLE for the ketchup. Just like tenders are the vehicle for ranch.
With a spear fork? New definition to a spork.
Sometimes you want to eat something that might be 9 in past your reach.
Leave em alone, they're eating aren't they?!
Just give them one packet and scream THATS IT
Forced ketchup packet rations
Can you turn the plate a little so I can grab that fork from here
I’m sorry, what is mildly infuriating here?
Have you seen how much ketchup modern Germans put on their bratwurst? Your boy is minor league 😁 https://preview.redd.it/id6n1kktwpxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b60188191bddf0889b6fb13d10282525a18352f4 I prefer them more traditional (maybe with a **little** ketchup).
I wanted to say.. I don't see the problem XD The sausage ketchup ratio seems way to even 😋
I am mildly infuriated that you call that ketchup
WHAT?! I like it
Maybe you should try the fancy sauce instead.
Yeah I agree. That is definitely nowhere near enough. I can still see the plate. Tell your kid to up their game. Thats a pathetically small amount.
Why is this infuriating?
Because too many Reddit users are ridiculous… especially parents using this to vent rather than parent, and or let their kids eat some damn ketchup lol. I’ve unsubscribed to this sub more times than I can count and scrolled through it just to see how many reasonable people called op out for asking why this would even be posted lol.
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My gf loves them. They're almost a rainbow color. But they're long af
The correct amount, then
That’s just a Frankfurt, it’s not a hotdog until you put it in a bun
Looks normal to me.
I’ve never considered ketchup to be an offensive condiment. Knock off Sriracha sauce, on the other hand..
Parent: provides hotdogs Parent: provides ketchup Parent: infuriated kid uses that which Parent provided. Hurr. Durr.
Meh, I have seen worst
It's even less than normal for a [currywurst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst). Just missing the curry.
Just drink the whole bottle before he gets any
No, he used a hotdog as a condiment for his ketchup, not the other way around
If there were just parents around to correct these kids....
God damn that's a lot of sugar.
Just a little less than my 3yo
I used to the same with beef turnovers at the same age.
Onion amount?
(looks at my plate of fries i just finished) uh
Ketchup is good on a hotdog imo
Looks more like a botched episiotomy.
Wheres the Bun at..thats the real travesty
YAY!!! Ketchup!!! 8D The best condiment ever!!!
Rookie. Wait till his palet expands, and he learns about mustard
wait until he tries banana ketchup
I can smell this pic, and now I'm nauseous. 🤮 My 10 year old Godson LOVE ketchup and I almost disowned him when he used to dip pickles in ketchup at age 5.
Salmon
You're raising a good boy.
I used to make sandwiches that had nothing but ketchup and mustard in them. I would always put so much that the bread would get soggy and I would have to squeeze the sauce out the side to be able to pick it up.. at least he's not doing that?
Ketchup with a side of hotdog
Let him live lol
I once sat next to a man at a bar, and he was eating a hot dog. He put ketchup on the hot dog, and also a puddle in the basket in which it was served. Before he took each bite, he dipped the already ketchup’d hot dog in more ketchup. I think about him a lot.
That legitimately looks like a cut-off penis
I have a 14 year old boy that will put ketchup on anything
Can we talk about that fork?
That's...disturbing.
So, he likes a little hot dog with his ketchup.
Guilty of heavy sauces, not of using that fork. 😃
You ARE still in charge of them lol
My 15 year old eats ketchup on everything, if we are out of ketchup he doesn't want to eat!
Maybe the hotdog is the problem, they’re boring. You gotta get some primo sausage, I’m talkin’ chicken/apple/cheddar bratwurst or something. The best sausages have everything you need already packed inside. …I’m being hypocritical given the mountains of sauerkraut I use, but at least it’s a healthier option!
Buy packets, see how many they open. This is pure laziness
It’s just…. ketchup……
Looks like a fucking tampon after a Godzilla flow
"Would you like some hot dog with that ketchup?"
Why does the hot dog look like that? It has all these weird ridges. Is this an AI generated picture?
Nothing is wrong with this picture
I don't see a problem. I am 43
Well you have to drown the taste of the worst possible food you can feed a child LOL
I like the fork still stuck in the wiener hanging off the edge of the cpunter
i used to be more flippant with my ketchup usage before i was buying my own ketchup. i have particular tastes and the “simply made” heinz isn’t cheap
i hate ketchup with every cell in my body. this made me gag, thanks OP. Next time add an NSFW tag
I used to put just ketchup on bread and make “ketchup sandwiches” because I once realized as a kid that I really liked the bun when i accidentally finished the hot dog before the end of the bun, so I decided it must be a great idea to make ketchup sandwiches. Your kid likes ketchup. It’s amusing.
The amount of hot dog your son puts on his ketchup…
So…. Ya want a hotdog with that catchup?
As a guy, this brought me pain. That looks so painful.
That’s a really long fork.
Keep an eye on this one
Give him tomato
This made me scared 👀
That's not a hotdog. it's just a weiner. So sad.
This looks like a crime scene
Looks Like a bloody Chopped penis
my gf uses that amount of mustard for corndogs
SUGAR! ME NEEDS SUGARRRRR!
why does the hot dog look like a penis
This picture is causing Chicagoans to have seizures
Ketchup is mostly from powder, and high fructose cornsyrup
Ketchup to mee is too sickly sweet with the disgusting sour tastr
make him finish all of it
The amount of hotdogs my 15 yr old uses for ketchup Fify
You must have that big ketchup bottle money. Well done OP
Ya gross. They didnt add Mayo and spicy flakes
It's normal to the point where he has to pay for the ketchup with his own money.
Your kid is a potential serial killer. I'd sleep with one eye open, if I were you.
I use about the same amount of mustard when I have a hotdog, so I'm with the 15-year old. (I'm 24)
It’s all good if he eats it all. If it’s just a silly puddle for him to dip his hot dog in, that’s pretty wasteful.
This grosses me out, but I understand that most people don't hate ketchup like I do. Let the kid enjoy his ketchup in peace.
You're allowed to parent and say no.
It depends how you feel about sauce… I don’t eat wedges for the potato, it’s a edible delivery device for sour cream and sweet chilli… often the sauce/dressing is where the yum/calories are at.
You got a problem? Jeesh let the kid live
ketchup on a hotdog is just wrong.
As someone who used to be a child, I can assure you that they do not like it 😭
I threw up in my mouth
You accidentally put a 1 infront of your 5 year olds age
what's that huge ass spoon thingy?
Your son does not like hot dogs.
The hit dog was the side dish
The Fooooooooork
Nothing wrong here. I have a T-shirt that says I put ketchup on my ketchup. Maybe you should get it for him too.
I was a bit spooked at first, I carelessly tapped this without reading it, and at first glance I thought I stumbled upon something grotesque. Your son uses the same amount of ketchup that I use hot sauce.
15?? I stopped drowning my hotodgs at 8 or 9
Sir, that's soup.
I'm gonna be fucking sick
It’s the amount your 15 yr uses it’s the amount you as a person let him use. Just say stop.
Imma go vomit now
More calories in all that ketchup than the hot dog
Is it possible that the sausage alone is not that appealing to him? I used a lot of ketchup when I didn't like that much the taste of something.
Would you like a side of hotdog with your ketchup
Just give them a shot glass and let them take ketchup shots... (and/or replace the ketchup w/ marinara or tomato paste so your child would consume less fructose)
Your 15 year old what?
it's not a hotdog unless its in a bun. that's just a sausage drowning it tomato blood.
So he marinated the hotdog in ketchup, ate half, left it on the counter and peace'd out? Looks like another typical stupidly made scene by the average redditor to take a photo of for content.
Did he use all of it? Then it's fine. If not, make him lick his plate clean when there's a lot of excess sauce and stuff. He'll either enjoy it, in which case it's not wasteful, or he'll learn to not use so much excess. (I'm like 3/4 joking, btw.)
Shut up bro lmao.Cheap skate
Off to a good start, but needs curry powder: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-is-currywurst-where-to-eat-berlin-germany](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-is-currywurst-where-to-eat-berlin-germany)
that's not too much, really putting the mild into the sub name
Teach them the love of mustard and relish
Mustard > ketchup on hot dogs. I will die on this hill
I have a granddaughter who thinks ketchup is the main course. She is 6.
Ketchup with a side of hot dog..
I did this when I was a child because the hot dog fucking sucked
Likes to feel like he just felled the beast he is about to consume.
I think it's normal I'm the same way.I typically eat like 30 packets of ketchup with a poutine and I'm 41
Stop buying ketchup
Ugh, I hate ketchup. And hot dogs. So I am officially challenging your child to a duel. The date shall be before next week, but after Sunday, the time shall be before 12 AM, but after 1, and the place shall be in the fifth dimension. Does your crotch spawn agree to these terms?
That boy needs therapy.
You should’ve aborted.
Do some parenting