Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Ketchup

Not directly on the sandwich, but dipping parts of the sandwich in the ketchup on the side.

Trashy or kind of tasty?

by Anonymousreply 109June 28, 2020 10:33 PM

NASTY. Now a good barbecue sauce? I am in!

by Anonymousreply 1September 9, 2015 1:05 AM

Trashy of course. It is ketchup, if you are putting in on something other than fried potato it is always trashy.

I couldn't even imagine dipping a nice grilled cheese into ketchup.

by Anonymousreply 2September 9, 2015 1:05 AM

Dipping a grilled cheese into tomato-basil soup, however...

by Anonymousreply 3September 9, 2015 1:06 AM

I've done that, but only when I couldn't find a fresh tomato in the house to slice up. The fresh article is far better melted into a grilled cheese, OP.

by Anonymousreply 4September 9, 2015 1:07 AM

Trashy. Doesn't mean it isn't good though. (Never tried it.)

R2, try real hard.

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by Anonymousreply 5September 9, 2015 1:07 AM

[quote]NASTY. Now a good barbecue sauce? I am in!

Barbecue sauce isn't any better! Why would you need to slather a grilled cheese in some cheap sauce to cover up the flavor?

by Anonymousreply 6September 9, 2015 1:14 AM

Trashy!!!!! (although I have been known to OCCASIONALLY dip mine in ranch dressing after a few drinks).

by Anonymousreply 7September 9, 2015 1:14 AM

Trashy. Dijon mustard however.... THAT'S classy!

by Anonymousreply 8September 9, 2015 1:15 AM

I've never heard of dipping it in ketchup. It sounds completely vile!

But, as someone else mentioned, dipped it in bowel of hot tomato soup on a cold winter afternoon.....heaven!

by Anonymousreply 9September 9, 2015 1:16 AM

r9 is the Oh Dear of the Day.

by Anonymousreply 10September 9, 2015 1:21 AM

Why concern yourself whether a particular food is "trashy"? Grow up.

by Anonymousreply 12September 9, 2015 1:24 AM

Yeah, it's trashy -- and delicious! Gad you boys are so dainty sometimes. You know what else is good to dip in ketchup? Buttered bread.

We also used to eat ... saltines crushed into a glass of milk. Fried bologna with peanut butter and mayo. M-M-Good!

by Anonymousreply 13September 9, 2015 1:26 AM

The combination reminds me of a tragic night my uncircumcised ex-boyfriend and I had rough intercourse.

by Anonymousreply 14September 9, 2015 1:28 AM

Ketchup is for foods that need a kick -- like bland potatoes

by Anonymousreply 15September 9, 2015 1:34 AM

Organic Ketchup without corn syrup. Healthy and upper-middle class.

by Anonymousreply 17September 9, 2015 1:37 AM

I do this all the time, it takes the sandwich to a whole new level for me. Don't knock or judge something till you've actually tried it.

by Anonymousreply 18September 9, 2015 1:38 AM

[quote] saltines crushed into a glass of milk

^ Whaaa???????

by Anonymousreply 19September 9, 2015 1:39 AM

Fucking disgusting. I'd sooner dip it into the open twat of a frau on her period.

by Anonymousreply 20September 9, 2015 1:40 AM

I love dijon and bratwust

I like fried baloney, too - just with plain white bread!

Grilled cheese is good, but can be improved with a mixture of cheese and with very good bakery bread

by Anonymousreply 21September 9, 2015 1:40 AM

Mozzarella grilled cheese dipped in tomato sauce. My college cafeteria served this,it was the only decent thing on the menu.

by Anonymousreply 23September 9, 2015 1:41 AM

Cheryl, you've never been funnier than at R14.

by Anonymousreply 24September 9, 2015 1:43 AM

R20, tell us more about your experiences.

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by Anonymousreply 26September 9, 2015 1:44 AM

They're serving lobster grilled cheese sandwiches on Block Island. I know lobster mac n cheese has been a thing for years but they both seem a waste of perfectly good cheese and perfectly good lobster to me.

by Anonymousreply 27September 9, 2015 1:47 AM

Tomato soup yum. Ketchup yuck.

by Anonymousreply 28September 9, 2015 1:49 AM

I've had a lobster grilled cheese and it was divine. Also extremely rich so I counted it as a one time indulgence.

by Anonymousreply 29September 9, 2015 1:52 AM

Grilled cheese mini triangles, dipped in a fondue pot, filled with a fine melted cheese.

Adding crisp bacon slices to your grilled cheese is also a fine, flavorful addition.

by Anonymousreply 31September 9, 2015 2:03 AM

I make my own muxture of blue cheese dressing and tobasco sauce to dip my boneless,skinless chicken breast into. I get my chicken wing flavor fix with less guilt..Delicious!

by Anonymousreply 32September 9, 2015 2:06 AM

R23 My very Italian mother makes grilled meatball, sauce and provolone SANDWICHES. It's still one of my favorites.

by Anonymousreply 33September 9, 2015 2:11 AM

R33 Your very Italian mother sounds sane, and not the least trashy. Will she cook for me?

by Anonymousreply 35September 9, 2015 3:52 AM

I want that meatball sandwich, too.

by Anonymousreply 36September 9, 2015 3:58 AM

Grilled cheese with ketchup is about as low rent as you can get. And barbecue sauce (especially from anywhere in America) is at least 50% ketchup as well. If you really want to pack on the pounds, why not mayo straight from the bucket? After 3 or 4 grilled cheese, a Big Mac seems healthy in comparison.

by Anonymousreply 38September 9, 2015 5:42 AM

Trashy and tasty are not mutually exclusive.

by Anonymousreply 39September 9, 2015 5:52 AM

It's only trashy if you slice Velveeta for your cheese.

by Anonymousreply 41September 9, 2015 5:59 AM

My daugter is name velveeta

by Anonymousreply 42September 9, 2015 6:01 AM

It's amazingly good - not trashy at all. Catsup isn't by itself a trashy condiment. That's just stupid. It depends on how it's used.

by Anonymousreply 43September 9, 2015 6:03 AM

Sounds good to me. Also, put gobs of butter on the bread, ...dip in that salty trashy ketchup

by Anonymousreply 44September 9, 2015 6:06 AM

Empires have been built on the grilled cheese sandwich. Enjoy it anyway you like.

by Anonymousreply 45September 9, 2015 7:07 AM

Seems to be a favorite thing for the Dutch to do. Along with dipping their fries in mayonnaise.

by Anonymousreply 46September 9, 2015 7:17 AM

A lot of Europeans dip their fries in mayonnaise. Not just the Dutch.

by Anonymousreply 47September 9, 2015 1:40 PM

I dip my grilled cheese in ketchup. I also use it for French fries and scrambled eggs that they don't have cheese in them.

by Anonymousreply 48September 9, 2015 2:04 PM

I thought everybody dipped their grilled cheeses in ketchup. Mmmm...it's delicious.

Conversely, I find the idea of tomato soup (especially served with a grilled cheese) disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 49September 9, 2015 2:56 PM

I like either one, R49. I just don't always have tomato soup on hand.

by Anonymousreply 50September 9, 2015 3:11 PM

Nixon liked cottage cheese with ketchup for lunch when he was POTUS.

by Anonymousreply 51September 9, 2015 3:24 PM

Ugh. If he was on DL, he would be accused of having baby taste

by Anonymousreply 52September 9, 2015 3:47 PM

The Sad, Stately Photo Of Nixon's Resignation Lunch

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by Anonymousreply 53September 9, 2015 3:52 PM

Sounds gross. My local gay cafe serves wasabi aioli with theirs.

by Anonymousreply 54September 9, 2015 3:57 PM

Ford liked cottage cheese, too

During his presidency, Gerald Ford ate the exact same thing for lunch every day: a scoop of cottage cheese covered with A-1 Steak Sauce, a sliced onion or quartered tomato, and a small scoop of butter pecan ice cream

Ulysses Grant’s favorite breakfast was cucumbers in vinegar.

Theodore Roosevelt’s favorite breakfast was twelve eggs.

Calvin Coolidge’s favorite breakfast was boiled raw wheat and rye and he liked to have his head rubbed with Vaseline while he ate it.

by Anonymousreply 55September 9, 2015 4:00 PM

The milk with crushed saltines is the most disgusting thing I ever heard

by Anonymousreply 56September 9, 2015 4:38 PM

I don't like mayo with hot food, R54, and that's basically what aioli is.

by Anonymousreply 57September 9, 2015 5:29 PM

Crackers and milk was a traditional lunch or light meal in New England for generations. When I was a kid you could still buy it at lunch counters. Usually, it was made with thick "milk" crackers, but in the early to mid-20th century saltines became more common.

by Anonymousreply 58September 9, 2015 7:14 PM

Is your name Claude Giroux, OP?

by Anonymousreply 59September 9, 2015 7:26 PM

That is digusting!! I rather eat PUSSY!!

by Anonymousreply 60September 9, 2015 7:54 PM

This sounds HEAVENLY to me (minus the bacon)...tater tots and grilled cheese, some of the best food on earth!

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by Anonymousreply 61September 10, 2015 12:14 AM

r58 It's the quick, room temperature version of milk toast.

by Anonymousreply 62September 10, 2015 12:56 AM

Teddy Roosevelt's cholesterol level must have been off the charts eating all those eggs.

by Anonymousreply 63September 12, 2015 2:10 PM

Grilled cheese with bacon and fresh tomato with a bit of Dijon mustard.

by Anonymousreply 64September 12, 2015 2:28 PM

Sorry, but this is straight out of the white trash cookbook.

by Anonymousreply 65June 24, 2020 2:36 PM

Bump Bitch lives to Bump Bitch again. Can I get a volunteer to hold her down while I squeeze ketchup down her throat until she drowns in it?

by Anonymousreply 66June 24, 2020 2:40 PM

It's tomato soup and I loved it as a kid.

by Anonymousreply 67June 24, 2020 3:16 PM

[quote]Trashy or kind of tasty?

Can’t it be both?!

by Anonymousreply 68June 24, 2020 3:24 PM

I did this often when I was a kid, and still do occasionally as an adult. When there's no tomato soup in the house, it's a good substitute.

by Anonymousreply 69June 24, 2020 3:31 PM

Chili. Also good dipping in chili.

Living alone for awhile ( someone else bought the groceries) I have learned how quickly I run out of ketchup.

French fries you have peeled and sliced yourself are okay without but are to to die for with. A certain chicken place with their fresh cut are to die for..

I used to like ketchup on my egg sandwiches.

by Anonymousreply 70June 24, 2020 4:02 PM

Dunking into ketchup is good. Dunking into tomato soup is better.

Sometimes you just feel like trashy food.

by Anonymousreply 72June 24, 2020 4:39 PM

I dip mine into Chris Cocker's "savory accidental sauce".

by Anonymousreply 73June 24, 2020 4:51 PM

I equate ketchup with white trash, I equally equate grilled cheese as a white trash meal. Put those two together and you have Canadian cuisine at its finest!

by Anonymousreply 74June 24, 2020 5:04 PM

Trashy. No. Tomato soup or nothing. I might accept some other soups but no condiments and definitely not ketchup.

People who treat ketchup as interchangeable with tomato soup or sauces are, well, trashy. Those things are not the same. At all.

by Anonymousreply 75June 24, 2020 5:16 PM

I make a summer tomato jam that is both sweet and savory. It is divine on grilled cheese sandwiches. If you grow tomatoes, it's a great way to use them up.

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by Anonymousreply 76June 24, 2020 5:18 PM

[quote]I equally equate grilled cheese as a white trash meal.

Then you're not doing it right.

by Anonymousreply 77June 24, 2020 5:21 PM

Has anyone tried it where you put mayo on the bread instead of butter before you toast it?

by Anonymousreply 79June 24, 2020 5:27 PM

R79, Yes, it works great. I got the idea from Ina Garten.

by Anonymousreply 80June 24, 2020 5:33 PM

This is more of an egg sandwich but calls for a slice of cheese. It is very easy one of the very few received have done that as a success. Don’t say anything bad about Sarah. She is very sweet.

Only a snob would think grilled cheese is white trash food. Ina makes them!

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by Anonymousreply 81June 24, 2020 9:51 PM

Grilled meat and cheese sandwiches are the best with catsup and mustard mixture.

by Anonymousreply 82June 24, 2020 10:40 PM

I drizzle dill pickle juice on them while they are frying. Delicious.

by Anonymousreply 83June 24, 2020 10:52 PM

My two-year-old grandniece wants to dip everything in ketchup. Green beans, ice cream, strawberries... It's the only way she will eat. I think it's hysterical. Her parents may need to take the drastic approach, no ketchup, or no food at all at this mealtime. She's a stubborn little one. She's like her grandmother (my sister).

by Anonymousreply 84June 24, 2020 11:01 PM

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ranch dressing. No I haven't done that but it sounds better than ketchup.

by Anonymousreply 85June 24, 2020 11:16 PM

Fresh cut vine tomatoes 🍅 will be found in the finest homes & grilled cheeses!

by Anonymousreply 86June 24, 2020 11:23 PM

R85 see R7. It sounds vile.

by Anonymousreply 87June 24, 2020 11:33 PM

Funnily enough, I just tead about the combo a few days ago... If one is out of tomatoes, and tomato soup, it's ingenious actually... and I'm not so keen on ketchup ordinarily. I would choose to call it "slutty" rather than trasy. Slutty sounds like much more fun! I met an American friend a few years back who coupled this adjective with foods, and I loved her for it.

She usually was healthy, marathon runner and tennis player, but loved to brag when she had indulged in slutty nachos, or a slutty burger. Slutty is sexier than trashy. I can imagine Nigella Lawson saying it!

by Anonymousreply 88June 25, 2020 12:25 AM

^ 1,000 apologies for the typos

by Anonymousreply 89June 25, 2020 12:28 AM

You have Grilled Cheese and tomato soup, NOT KETCHUP.

I suppose if you're without an ounce of class you could use ketchup. I mean even POOR people can afford tomato soup.

by Anonymousreply 91June 25, 2020 12:35 AM

I sub out the ketchup and put sriracha and it is perfect

by Anonymousreply 92June 25, 2020 12:36 AM

R58 That combination is also popular with Filipinos and children in Singapore. When I lived in NYC I would purchase crackers in a tin from the Philippines called "Sky Flakes", and they suggested on the tin "a treat for children when dipped in milk".... Never tried this, but found it to be funny.

by Anonymousreply 93June 25, 2020 12:46 AM

As a child I was hooked on egg sandwiches with ketchup. Now if I eat one it isn’t the same.

A city near me. Had a restaurant (I believe they won on Shark Tank) only sold tomato soup and grilled cheese. They went out of business.

by Anonymousreply 94June 25, 2020 1:42 AM

Ketchup on everything is foul, but does go with grilled cheese, though again, trashy. Nothing wrong with that.

If, however, you’re making grilled cheese w really good cheese and really good bread, it’s a shade sacreligious.

by Anonymousreply 95June 25, 2020 2:46 AM

I've seen people put ketchup on scrambled eggs but nevah! on a grilled cheese sandwich.

Our town had a Tom Chee restaurant but it didn't last long. I don't order grilled cheese in a restaurant since it's so easy to make at home.

by Anonymousreply 96June 25, 2020 3:16 AM

I remember when I was dirty poor in college and cheese sandwich was the cheapest on the menu, I used to put ketchup to my grilled cheese to make it more filling and pretend I was having pizza. It's funny how those are actually good memories now.

by Anonymousreply 97June 25, 2020 4:34 AM

Did you graduate?👨‍🎓

by Anonymousreply 98June 25, 2020 12:51 PM

Ketchup on scrambled eggs is delicious.

by Anonymousreply 99June 25, 2020 4:49 PM

My favorite grilled cheese sandwich has american cheese, a slice of onion and mustard between two slices of fresh Italian bread. Butter the outsides and grill. Delicious.

by Anonymousreply 100June 25, 2020 4:59 PM

Ketchup is a magical substance that turns any food it touches into garbage. It is an abomination, with a vile stench, and I do not allow it through the doors of my home.

by Anonymousreply 101June 25, 2020 5:00 PM

I like mixing up the mustard and ketchup and dipping my grilled ham and cheese into the mix.

by Anonymousreply 102June 25, 2020 5:00 PM

So Nasty! I still gag thinking about the grilled cheese sandwiches with ketchup they used to give us for lunch at my summer camp. Ugh. Worst combination evah!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 103June 25, 2020 5:03 PM

OP, I have to have ketchup with a grilled cheese. Raw tomato is nasty in it, it makes it watery and cools down the cheese too much- also the acid in it starts trying to emulsify the fat in it.

Ketchup for the win!

by Anonymousreply 104June 25, 2020 5:08 PM

Grilled cheese with provolone, sliced tomato (depulped,) black olives, and minced garlic is the best

by Anonymousreply 105June 26, 2020 12:43 AM

Grilled cheese (if you must) with tomato soup.

THAT IS IT.

Anything else is so lower middle class

by Anonymousreply 106June 27, 2020 2:13 AM

I ain’t no high society but I do love ketchup puttin it on grilled cheese sounds gross. Why notget a cheese pizza instead ?

by Anonymousreply 107June 27, 2020 2:18 AM

R107

Your probably also the type to serve kiwifruit, which is so lower middle class.

by Anonymousreply 108June 28, 2020 10:15 PM

It’s fine. The only thing missing is a burger, so what’s the problem,

by Anonymousreply 109June 28, 2020 10:33 PM

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