Bryan > wrote:
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>Meat loaf is on the lowest tier of American foods. It is a slop trough where *creative* folks dump in a little of this,
a little of that, packets of dried soup mix, ketchup, and any number
of horrors. Read on, and you'll see.

Slop describes all your cooking. My meatloaf is a cullinary
masterpiece, begins with personally selected meat cuts I grind myself.
Every added ingredient is fresh and I use no packaged soups. The one
caveat is that it is NOT POSSIBLE to make decent meat loaf from
preground mystery meat, just isn't. Btw, ketchup is a perfectly
legitimate condiment... every eatery on the planet offers ketchup,
hardly a burger eaten without, and a burger is essentially a meat loaf
in patty format. I personally don't put kethup in my meat loaf but
same as 90% of everyone else I very often put ketchup ON meat loaf...
can't eat a cold meat loaf sandwich without.