so....anybody else do this???!?! hahah i do and i love it! i dont really like sauce. i happen to be jewish, and i've always heard that noodles and ketchup was a new york jewish thing (im from brooklyn as well), so i was just wondering if there were other people that liked it, jewish or not
shareI've never had it but I'd be willing to try it. In case you're wondering I am not Jewish nor do I live in Brooklyn.
shareI am Jewish and was born in Brooklyn and raised in the New York City area.
When I was a little kid, we'd eat spaghetti and ketchup.
Here's the best way to make them:
Boil up some egg noodles (kluski noodles work well too!!)
Fry them on the stove top with 2 eggs and butter
Cook till the egg scrambles in the noodles and the noodles are a little crispy and golden
add ketchup and salt
enjoy!
Sounds yummy until you get to the ketchup and salt part!
My mother is of part Italian descent...so, no this does not appeal to me in the least.
I don't even like ketchup on my fries!
Gotta have the catsup on my fries; but I don't even
want to think about catsup on spaghetti!
It has got to be the real Italian sauce or no sauce at all!
....I am a Black American!
"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
You're mother never made a frittata?
shareSounds yummy until you get to the ketchup and salt part!
My mother is of part Italian descent...so, no this does not appeal to me in the least.
I'm Jewish and from Brooklyn and I find this disgusting. Yuck!
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I am Jewish...born in Brooklyn in the early 1970s and raised in Staten Island. When I was young (pre-teenage years), we ate spaghetti and ketchup.
shareYour early life sounds like a film I'd love to see!
I thought it might be an Irish thing after that scene in Goodfellas in which Deniro's character is loading ketchup on his spaghetti.
An interesting antedote my wife is from the Philippines and there they love spaghetti with a real sweet sauce and you can buy tomato sauce that is very sweet. They make sauce from tomato Ketchup and will even use what they call banana ketchup which is made obviously from from bananas. That has given me a taste for a ketchup like sauce but i still have to have ground meat in it.
There are sweeter sauces than ketchup that people use on pasta or some kinds of noodles, like that Filipino sauce and it isn't bad tasting.
But being from NY, and use to eating Italian food often, my conscious will not allow me to squeeze ketchup on noodles.. It's just wrong...
Jesus would support Universal Health Care
It is one of those secret cravings you learn from childhood. Cincinnati style chili mac has a lot of ketchup in it. There are gourmets in France with a secret craving for American Heinz baked beans (from getting them from GI's during WWII). The Koreans LOVE Spam - a taste from the Korean War GI's. Korea consumes more Spam per capita than any country on earth. It is considered a classy 'hostess gift' to bring in Seoul. I, myself have a secret craving for canned peas. I drain them, warm them up and eat them with plenty of real butter and salt. How about pickle sandwiches?
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it's poverty food that transcends ethnicity
Who cares about stairs? The main thing is ice cream.
I guess that's where I'd go with it
I was born and raised,(1st 12 yrs) in Allentown, there were 4 kids
Every couple weeks or so, sometimes every week we'd have fried macaroni
Boil and drain elbows
melt some margarine in a large skillet
add breadcrumbs and toss to coat with margarine.
Continue to toss until browned
serve with ketchup and dill pickles
Make it every now and then for myself
Served it once to friends as a replacement to fried potatoes
Now i add some garlic powder and basil
Mongo like candy!
That's very true. There are all sorts of things you can make from an empty refrigerator and pantry. Butter, eggs, salt, bullion cubes, pepper, ketchup, saltine crackers, flour, beans, sugar, any leftover pasta, rice, an onion, a potato, and a can of tuna. I can still whip up a feast with these few meager things. I should write a cookbook, "Something From Nothing, Cookbook for the Starving Student (or how to get by on $20 per week)".
I also wanted to comment that there is a whole genre of Asian cooking (forgot the English word for it) based on Asian cooks' attempts to recreate familiar American dishes just from descriptions probably given by homesick GIs and sailors. So if you order "spaghetti and meatballs" in Hong Kong or a "Hamboke steak" (hamburger), pizza or omelette in Japan, you used to get some culturally unique interpretation of these foods. Nowadays of course you get a pretty modern, oftentimes superior version of international cuisine in Asian metropolises.
i like bad 'menu english' in Chinese restaurants. I used to go to a Chinatown NY restaurant where the teenage son wrote the menu as best he could. My favorite listing was for 'Pigs Behind and vegetables'. Obviously the menu writer knew that 'butt' was a 'bad word' and that 'pig's behind' would be more elegant.
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