The Rich Man's Ketchup
My wife and I were having dinner, not unheard of, on the living room sofa. This night it was a meal of frozen entrees: homestyle French fries and Quorn fake chicken nuggets, with bowls of yoghurt and fruit on the side. We were nearly out of ketchup, so I brought in some mustard and an ancient jar of cocktail sauce.
"Ah, cocktail sauce," I mused. "The rich man's ketchup."
My wife looked skeptical. "Is that really what they call it?"
"Well, it sounds like something from The Simpsons. So I doubt it. But it's a good name. Maybe this is our million dollar idea. 'The rich man's ketchup' will be the slogan. We just have to invent the sauce."
She thought for a moment over a French fry. "Condiments? I don't know. It's a pretty crowded market. Think about the condiment aisle in the supermarket. Salsas. Mustards. Ketchup." She paused." And of course catsup."
"Catsup. Now that," I said, "is the rich man's ketchup."
"Ah, cocktail sauce," I mused. "The rich man's ketchup."
My wife looked skeptical. "Is that really what they call it?"
"Well, it sounds like something from The Simpsons. So I doubt it. But it's a good name. Maybe this is our million dollar idea. 'The rich man's ketchup' will be the slogan. We just have to invent the sauce."
She thought for a moment over a French fry. "Condiments? I don't know. It's a pretty crowded market. Think about the condiment aisle in the supermarket. Salsas. Mustards. Ketchup." She paused." And of course catsup."
"Catsup. Now that," I said, "is the rich man's ketchup."
posted by Hallovian at 11:21 AM
6 Comments:
What if you mixed together all the contents of the bottles that only have about a quarter-inch of condiment left in them? You could call it the crazy man's condiment.
You could do for cocktail sauce what Grey Pupoun did for mustard.
Actually, someone else suggested calling the product "Red Poupon."
or perhaps "poupon rouge" - or with cinnabuster's recipe "condementia"
I had the oppurtunity to use "Rich Man's Ketchup", as a substitute for 1/2 of the "catsup" called for in a recipe, when making 6lbs of Meatloaf for the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen in Portsmouth, NH. It was deemed by my fellow kitchen mates as the "best meatloaf I have ever had" and "the best meatloaf I've eaten in ten years". Poupon Rouge - uplifting the down and out.
I had the oppurtunity to use "Rich Man's Ketchup", as a substitute for 1/2 of the "catsup" called for in a recipe, when making 6lbs of Meatloaf for the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen in Portsmouth, NH. It was deemed by my fellow kitchen mates as the "best meatloaf I have ever had" and "the best meatloaf I've eaten in ten years". Poupon Rouge - uplifting the down and out.
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