Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

My mom was a cheapskate growing up - who also didn't know how to make a good steak (to her credit, she's gotten much better over time).

She used to get cheap steaks - and she'd overcook them. She didn't slice 'em thin for us or anything - so I grew up with mostly tough, overcooked, non flavorful steaks. I swear, I wouldn't have been able to choke it down without some kind of steak sauce. My jaw felt like it ran a marathon when I finished her steaks.

As for ketchup - I love it. Just not on steaks. Love dipping my fries into ketchup. Love ketchup and mayo on burgers (sometimes bbq sauce). I put on it on my eggs too, oh yah - and my meatloaf. And ****, I'll even put it on my shepherd's pies and my meat pies as well. Love that ****.

Now anything with coconut - that's a hate train I'm willing to ride on. **** coconut - tastes nasty and the texture is downright awful.



Didn't see this before my post. Is putting ketchup on Shepherd's pie a New England thing?

Originally Posted by jwb

ketchup sucks and coconut is good. And ketchup on shepard's pie??? I don't know any of you people.

I can tolerate it on meat loaf but it's better with gravy.

Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Ketchup on shepherd's pie

Originally Posted by mord

Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

When I was a little kid mother used to get a big flank steak for special occasions and broil the **** out of it till it was totally brown. **** was like chewing leather but I didn't know any better. She never got better but she did stop eating meat.

Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Ketchup on shepherd's pie

Originally Posted by jwb

A middle class job sounds like a boring menu option at a brothel

Originally Posted by jwb

ketchup sucks and coconut is good. And ketchup on shepard's pie??? I don't know any of you people.

I can tolerate it on meat loaf but it's better with gravy.

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

If she cooked most of her meat like that, it's no wonder. I hope you cook her a good steak once in a while to show her how it's done.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

So happens that I am having Shepherd's Pie tonight, and I am planning to use ketchup. I forget if it was Goofle11 or Urbs I was talking to about Shepherd's pie but he said that Shepherd's Pie isn't what Americans consider it - mash potatoes on ground beef. He said Shepherd's Pie is really mash potatoes on mutton. He called the US version Yeoman pie or Cottage pie or something like that. So it really isn't like pouring ketchup on mutton. :/

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

That was my reaction, as well.

I can understand a bit of salt and/or black pepper. Maybe a spot of HP Sauce, if you must, but ketchup?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.