Ooops! That was supposed to be: Puts ketchup on his steak.
It’s always been used for meatloaf and stuff.
That’s Paul Douglas. Paul Muni was a Jewish ethnic actor who did more stage than movies.
You need to get out more. Many people put ketchup on almost everything. A new fad now is putting Ranch dressing on everything.
Paul Muni? You sure you don’t mean Paul Douglas?
Or is Muni in it, too? Paul Douglas certainly is.
It was a very plebeian thing to do, even in 1947. That was the point—to show he was a mensch.
Yeah, by cracky, I remember, ohhhhh....way back before the turn of the century, back in 96. Put ketchup on Omlettes, Steak, Meatloaf, French Fries, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Potatoes, Fried Rice, hell, even tried it on a burger once.
Yep, them were the good old days.....
I put ketchup, A-1 and Heinz 57 on my steaks (unless they’re very expensive/good) as I HATE dry food. My wife calls me the “Condiment King” and I grab extra packets of honey mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc. at every store & restaurant. Put lots of butter on rice, potatoes, noodles, etc., too.
As for the ketchup, as best I remember ketchup was like salt and pepper, you never set a table without it and someone always used it and yes Heinz was hellish hard to get out of the bottle, Mom switched to Del Monte but we always came back to Heinz, squeeze bottles ruined ketchup or catsup as some say.
San Simeon was party central for Hollywood in the 1930s and Hearst insisted bottles of ketchup be placed on the huge main dining room table.
How to ruin a good steak?
Put ketchup on it....
I cringe when I see people put ketchup on Tenderloin or Ribeye in a restaurant. I think they are so used to eating London Broil at home with loads of Ketchup.
I’ll take my Ketchup rare.
Ketchup/Catsup is good on everything and makes everything better.
I love it when this p.o.s people...heh heh heh.
This thread made me think of you!!!
However, you need to remember that when many people had steak in those days it was not the thick juicy steaks we have come to expect today. I recall my Mother whacking tough round steak with a mallet like meat tenderizer and frying these thin pieces. The resulting “steaks” were dry and still pretty tough and you definitely needed ketchup or some kind of steak sauce to make them edible. Even when thicker more tender steaks became available, they were generally fried and cooked well done ..again the need for ketchup.
Only a barbarian would put ketchup on a steak. Refined people fill a tumbler with ketchup and sip as the evening wears on.
Anyone who puts ketchup on a steak I make gets thrown out of the house.
True story: In 1981 my husband’s classmates from Undergraduate Navigator Training went to a popular restaurant in the Sacramento area for dinner. One of the men, a man from Alabama, ordered steak with fries. He asked for ketchup (for his fries); the waiter brought the ketchup then stood on a chair near the table and announced loudly to the room that this man had asked for ketchup for his steak. Everyone in the room looked at our friend as if he had two heads.
To this day, I have no idea what was going through that waiter’s mind. Obviously some people feel very strongly about ketchup on steak!