9 Responses to “The ketchup gendarmes”

1. Artfldgr Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 3:01 pm

   wasn’t it jackie o that loved to drown things in ketchup that his quitting over it made news? anyone remember if it was her, or another?

   just checked.. it WAS jackie
   (i memorize all that i read to some extend, so i remember all those tiny articles few others do)

   Years ago, Gal told me a story about Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis. Jackie had a famous chef who made her meals. The chef loved his job so much he did his best to make her the most special food every time. He looked for special ingredients and measured every drop, but when she sat at the table, she took a bottle of ketchup, flooded her dish with the red sauce and ate it with pleasure. The chef was so frustrated that one day, he served her horse meat and mushrooms. When she poured ketchup all over it and ate it, the chef quit and told the press.

   This story was meant to say that Jackie Kennedy-Onassis had no taste, but to me, it also says she was happy (at least with her food). She was one of the richest women in the world and she made a rule that made her happy with very little effort – by pouring ketchup over her food. The chef’s rule was that food is good only if it contains fine ingredients in precise measures and is made with a lot of effort and skill. Jackie had a rule that if there is ketchup on her food, it tastes great! So simple.

   here is a link to the original newspaper article i remembered
   http://tinyurl.com/6kyz4y5

   it was march 18,1977

   i remember LOTS of such articles and tiny things… the minute your post came up, my mind started referencing… and remembered that article the day i read the paper as a kid back in 77!!! (how does everyone here think i find so much stuff, i remember everything so only have to look for it)

   i was 13 that year….
   

2. Artfldgr Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 3:03 pm

   oh… read the article to find out the revenge he took on her besides telling all…

3. Artfldgr Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 3:04 pm

   oh… and notice the bias order article next to it! hmmm…

4. neo-neocon Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 4:23 pm

   Artfldgr: that certainly goes against Jackie’s image of sophistication. It allies her instead with Nixon, he of the cottage cheese mixed with ketchup (can’t find any reliable source for the Nixon story, although I’ve heard it plenty of times).

   I happen to like ketchup. Just not on everything. But on burgers and fries it is necessary for the full, rich experience.

5. Occam's Beard Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 5:24 pm

   Must be nice to have nothing else to worry about than ketchup. No feral Muslims in banlieues, no banks circling the bowl, no currency problems, nothing like that. O happy land.

6. SteveH Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 5:24 pm

   I bet if you put pureed fresh tomato with a touch of salt and vinegar on the menu, the control freak food snobs wouldn’t get the irony.

7. Occam's Beard Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 5:45 pm

   Once at a very chi-chi bistro-type place in Marin County (snob HQ, for those who don’t know the area) I asked for a Perrier and soda.

   No one laughed.

8. betsybounds Says:
   October 7th, 2011 at 9:29 pm

   Maybe she told Reagan it was good enough to serve as a vegetable.

9. ziontruth Says:
   October 8th, 2011 at 2:11 pm

   Ketchuphobia OK, Islamophobia no way.

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