So just last year I glanced at a ketchup bottle and it said very clearly “Tomato Ketchup.” And I said “Well, duh. What else would it be?!” So I Googled. Turns out, way back in the day, mushroom ketchup was all the rage! Apparently it still exists and is used (mostly in Europe it appears)!
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That is interesting, I’ve never imagined that could exist… Now I feel a need for try it 
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Not I. I’m a “fun guy” but I don’t mushroom.
Get it? Fun guy? Mushroom? Get it? 
(That’s #1 on what my kids call “Dad jokes.”)
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I got it, i got it (after the explanation 
) Sorry it’s late in this side of the planet.
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Yeah… Doesn’t translate as well in written form. It’s kind of a verbal pun only. But I figured I’d give it a shot. 
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Hehe. That’s a good fourth grade joke.
My favorite is the curry ketchup of Berlin’s currywurst. Always keep some on hand.
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Sounds DELICIOUS! I love pineapple on my pizza. Mixed with any spiced meat, really. The coconut has me questioning a little though. The ginger makes a lot of sense to me though. I’ve never used ginger on pizza. I feel I’ve been missing out on a great opportunity there. Will try it next time we do homemade pizza night!
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I do just a fine grate of fresh coconut on the goat cheese. It balances it out a bit I think, like the ginger does to the pineapple. Some folks definitely don’t like coconut though so it’s a risk.
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Haha, Yeah! Great little segment on our local news.
Hey, Brits? How do you feel about peanut butter?
Realism dictates we not ask Americans to reduce their consumption of peanut butter (or petrol, or anything else) to British levels. Instead, the focus has to be on supersizing Britons’ PB uptake – something that at this point we’d still like to accomplish peacefully, without resorting to air strikes on your marmalade factories.
Also, I like beans on toast.
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I like this show…
@marmak3261 I spent time in Germany as a kid. Took away a taste for this brand, which happens to be available at a local German store thanks to the nearby airbase:
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Seriously! Whenever I think of Monty Python its’ Spam" or “Lumberjack song” skits ( and “it’s only a flesh wound” or “what does he do? Nibble your bum?” or “…wafer thin” but all of these are from movies). 
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You missed the ministry of funny walks and dead parrot
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Dead parrot is like the roads, it goes without saying.
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Ooh. Last fall the kids got introduced to currywurst. One of them is now a huge fan. We’ve been wondering where to get the sauce.
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Ketchup is a fruit and vinegar concoction. Apparently it can also be fungi based. I’ve made pineapple ketchup. It was very good, but I can’t recall the meat dish I prepared with it. Once Mr. Heinz figured out how to make tomato ketchup with an indefinite shelf-life the other forms fell into obscurity.
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For me, it’s usually “I fart in your general direction!” or “I blow my nose at you!” or “Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is nice…” or “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”…
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In the Philippines I was surprised by a ketchup bottle with the standard Heinz logo but it was banana sauce. Tasted like ketchup just a little bit sweeter.
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ketchup is a great example of why i refuse to put much stock in “tradition” when it comes to food. not only did mushroom ketchup used to be a thing, it used to be the only thing.
ketchup as we know it today only exists as a tomato sauce, and tomatoes are a new world fruit. even as late as the late 1700s, most europeans were afraid of them, fearing they were poisonous.
i mean it’s difficult, i think, for most people to imagine italian food without the tomato. or any number of cuisines that use capsaicin in the era post the columbian exchange.
and then you get into quintessential american recipes that only go back to the early 1900s, maybe the civil war, with a few really old things dating past that.
anyway, i think food history is pretty cool.
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Wow, a discussion of laser etched pancakes that now has 100 posts.
Sorry, I just couldn’t stop myself from adding this 
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