On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:53:42 PM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 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,
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> a little of that, packets of dried soup mix, ketchup, and any number
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> of horrors. Read on, and you'll see.
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> Slop describes all your cooking. My meatloaf is a cullinary
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> masterpiece, begins with personally selected meat cuts I grind myself.
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> Every added ingredient is fresh and I use no packaged soups. The one
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> caveat is that it is NOT POSSIBLE to make decent meat loaf from
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> preground mystery meat, just isn't. Btw, ketchup is a perfectly
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> legitimate condiment... every eatery on the planet offers ketchup,
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> hardly a burger eaten without, and a burger is essentially a meat loaf
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> in patty format. I personally don't put kethup in my meat loaf but
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> same as 90% of everyone else I very often put ketchup ON meat loaf...
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> can't eat a cold meat loaf sandwich without.

That's where ketchup belongs, on, not in. I agree 100% that "ketchup is a perfectly legitimate condiment." All meatloaf does suffer from one deficit, surface are to volume ratio. It's like a thick hamburger cooked well done, but to an extreme. If a burger is going to be cooked well done, I want it thin. Why don't you post your "cullinary [sic] masterpiece"? The no ketchup in is a good start. Of course your contention that there is "hardly a burger eaten without" ketchup is absurd.

--Bryan