What condiments or extras do you like on your hamburger? Me---cheese, ketchup, pickle, litle bit of onion.

[Jeebo]

59. Cheese, onions, pickles, mustard, mayonnaise.

But NO KETCHUP! I hate ketchup. I hate it so much that when I eat at a restaurant, I will erect a little barrier on the table in front of the ketchup bottle using the napkin dispenser, hot sauce, salt and pepper shakers and whatever else is there, so that I can't even see the ketchup bottle.

I've visited Belgium a couple of times and they don't even put ketchup on their french fries; they use mayonnaise instead. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Belgium is the origin country of french fries.

Also, on Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak occasionally castigates Vanna White because she puts ketchup on hot dogs. I'm with Sajak on that one. Ketchup on hot dogs? Yuck! I like my hot dogs with mustard, onions and sauerkraut, or with chili.

In one of my favorite movies, The Martian, when Mark Watney ran out of ketchup, I rejoiced. He was putting ketchup on baked potatoes! Maybe I should give him some latitude on that, because after all, he didn't have many choices, but still, ketchup on baked potatoes!? Incidentally, since reading that novel and watching that movie, whenever I eat a baked potato, I always think of Mark Watney.

On my burgers I might also put a slice or two of tomato or bacon, but the problem is, if you start piling too much stuff on that burger, it gets so thick that you can't open your mouth wide enough to get it in.

Getting back to the subject, did I say, I hate ketchup?!

-- Ron