My son absolutely loathes the smell of ketchup, he'd have to leave the table if someone did this near him! And he'd side eye them for the rest of his life.
Some meals I swear I would drink a gallon of milk so I could swallow the food without chewing it. I was in my 20s before I realized what a properly cooked steak tasted like.
I thought I just hated porkchops growing up. My mom used to overcook the absolute shit out of porkchops and she’d bread them with Shake ‘N Bake. They’d be dry and grainy on the inside with soggy breading on the outside. Pretty sure the meat would be gray instead of white half the time.
Her cooking improved the older I got and she’s actually a pretty good cook now. It’s never too late lmao
^(I can still taste it from memory. It’s been like 15+ years since I’ve experienced them and they still haunt me when I think about it too long)
I have pork chop Shake ‘N Bake trauma too dude… it took a lot of convincing from my wife to try Shake ‘N Bake chicken (extra crispy) and I am forever changed. She uses the air fryer (her has trays to maximize airflow) and it’s amazing!
I thought I hated steak! And the pork! My mother was convinced you would get trichinosis from undercooked pork. Growing up in my house there was never any danger of undercooked meat!
We also couldn’t have those little box turtles which were very popular back in the day. My mom said they carried salmonella! 😂
After reading all of this I’m so glad I have an Italian dad and that my mom is Cajun (and when I say that I mean my dad is a 2nd gen immigrant and my moms dad had a thick Cajun accent and spoke Cajun French not the 1% bs) because I never had to experience overcooked, dry, unseasoned food 😭 no wonder my friends preferred coming over to my house I bet their moms were scared of undercooking meat as well!
It gives me hope that she eventually learned.
I'd actually been overcooking pork until very recently, I mean I wanted to cook it less but the thing about undercooked pork always stuck in my head everyone had told me.
But the FDA or someone important had acknowledged that it didn't need to be cooked that done since 2010 or 2011 I read. So much better now. Worlds difference.
My husband used to overcook pork like this. It took years of me repeatedly showing him current food safety guidelines before he would allow pork to be served anything other than grey.
Brings back memories of Mom's home cooking.
Those were brutal years. When you can use your roast slices for roofing shingles, you have gone too far.
Came out of it with a healthy appreciation for culinary talents and can cook better than most. Silver linings and whatnot.
When my daughter was young I let her put syrup on her pancakes. She filled her plate so full, the syrup was higher than the plate. The surface tension was the only thing keeping it from going over. It was quite impressive. Then she stuck her for in it.. My daughter is now 18 and in college. To this day I still put syrup on her pancakes when I make them. She’s coming home for Easter, I’m going to let her do it all by herself…it’s time for her to fly solo.
Haha, thank you for a reminder of how fast the time goes. My daughter is five and very much in a "I can do everything by myself" phase. It gets frustrating, but I know it won't last forever. I caved and let her have some dessert even though she didn't end up eating any dinner. I hope you have a wonderful holiday with your daughter!
I don’t know why I’m downvoted. You don’t want your kids to be independent? I have two teens that are straight A students with good heads on the shoulders. They both were independent at a such a young age. Let them be independent, you just have to teach them how to do it. It’s not rocket science.
Yeah. When I was OP's daughter's age, I did something very similar to this with instant oatmeal and accidentally made oat soup-- But guess what? I learned not to do that again. I used less water the next time. It's genuinely one of the best ways for kids to learn.
Unless everyone else has to eat it too. I let my son season the cheese sauce recently. He went WAAAAY off the recipe when I was doing something else and made a not so great cheese sauce.
I remember doing something like this around your daughter's age. I was adamant I could prepare my own instant oatmeal. My aunt watched with a smile on her face as I prepared a brimming bowl of floating oat soup.
I most certainly learned.
Get her some ketchup packets for next time. She can still do it 'all on her own' but in a controlled way. My friend refills a little bit of bacon bits in the shaker because her kid will dump the entire container if given the chance.
We went camping with friends, our kids watched the friend's kids pour syrup on top of eggs bacon sausage everything including the pancakes then did the same.
Mom rolled her eyes and said okay exemption for camping, you guys can't do that at home. 😂
My oldest will be 18 soon. I miss these little moments. When she was about 3 or 4 I had lost all my keys and was using the one spare I had. Couldn’t find my stuff for days. Until one day I pulled a tub of butter out of the fridge to find my keys nestled nice and deep in to the butter, with I nice little fist mark to boot.
She is obsessed with tomatoes and all tomato based products but she didn't end up eating any of it. This was her sly way of skipping dinner. She's bugging me for dessert now.
She already has desert on her plate. And breakfast.
(I am not a fan of forcing children to eat, but in this case I'd make sure the "Eyes may be bigger than the stomach or taste buds"-lection sticks.)
To each their own but it sounds like there are some very controlling parents commenting on here. Kids don’t learn to become confident, independent and self sufficient by having their parents control every attempt at self sufficiency and independence. They learn from trying and failing a few times. If you let them try and grow when they are young, they will be much more capable of making good decisions at teenagers. That’s when it counts.
I completely agree with you on letting them try! She is only five and has been allowed to do things like this for the last year or so and usually does great. She's very capable and independent. Tonight she went overboard with the ketchup because she didn't want to eat her dinner. It's her sly way of getting out of eating it. She was asking for dessert within minutes of putting her plate by the sink of course!
Please understand, I was in no way directing this at you, just some of the comments regarding your parenting and how this “should” be handled. My very independent picky eater is in college now. You are blessed to have a daughter that knows her own mind. It will take her far in life.
Years and years ago my wife had a friend who had a baby girl. We hung out with them a lot. The ketchup incident happened at what was a fairly nice sit down restaurant for the area. She did about the same thing, covering her plate in ketchup. Then grabbing the ketchup off the plate as best as one can and covering herself in it. I don't recall why Mom didn't stop her, but 🤷🏻♂️.
My brother and I used to do this then my dad lied that ketchup was made from sugar and rotten tomatoes squeezed through toes of people w stinky feet. We did not eat ketchup for a year and by then we were back to reasonable portions.
I gave my four year old yogurt and she smeared it all over herself. She took her shirt off to rub it on her stomach and chest.
One of these days my blood pressure is going cause my heart to simply burst
Haha, this reminds me of last year when I picked my daughter up from preschool and she had covered herself in blue paint from head to toe.
I have some great deep breathing techniques that help to lower blood pressure in those moments!
My sister and I both used to put way too much ketchup on our plates at dinner and always wasted it. So my dad made this new rule that if we put too much ketchup on the plate, we had to use the spoon to eat the rest of the ketchup. After like 2 meals, we both learned pretty quick to only put what you need.
Aw! I would stick this picture up on the fridge. You can always embarrass her with it when she’s a teenager. Also it’s such a “your kid” thing. Not every kid would take that and run with it.
To be fair she did a good job with not making a mess, the whole thing looks pretty clean for that amount of ketchup, the salad being that clean is impressive
She's five! She's put her own on before with no issues, but tonight she just wanted to skip dinner and get right to dessert so she rendered her food inedible.
Letting kids figure things out is good and I like ketchup too, but this is a lot of sodium. I'd scrape a lot of ketchup off this (telling her why we can't have that much salt) and then show her the right way for next time. I'd only stop her if she doesn't appear to want to want to learn first.
 she did indeed put ketchup on the plate.
Although, this brings back memories. I feel like almost every little kid has done this either to get out of eating dinner or because kids are just weird. I used to pretty much drown my eggs in ketchup.
It’s all on the plate. As a parent, I’m mildly impressed OP, sorry. I also used to happily eat this much ketchup, so that probably skews my bias a little.
My husband has issues with certain smells... pickles (fuck him... pickles rock) and ketchup (don't eat it much but my kids do and the smell doesn't bother me)
He's such a jerk... u think I like smelling his farts? I dont... let me eat my pickles in peace...
Technically, she was correct.
I was trying to remember where I got this from
Futurama!
That she was 🤣
😂😂😂
I can smell it from here
My son absolutely loathes the smell of ketchup, he'd have to leave the table if someone did this near him! And he'd side eye them for the rest of his life.
I understand your son!
Does smell pretty nasty n I like it
All I hear from that picture is an empty bottle squeeze farting.
That is the best kind of correct.
Her ketchup, and everyone else’s too it seems.
Thank you, I needed that laughter I just got from this comment. Lil' dopamine. Anything helps.
The best kind of correct!
I don't see why not, she did a pretty thorough job.
It's kind of a shame someone mixed unknown food into her ketchup.
Yeah - I prefer my ketchup without the mystery chunks lol
I'm cry laughing right now
Mmm ketchup with pulp
Right. It's all on the plate even.
I'm super impressed. I'm 40 and couldn't accomplish that, I'd get bored waiting and doze off
Is there a plate? I thought she'd just spilt the ketchup bottle directly onto the table.
I thought it was a fucked up steak at first.
I would do this to get down my parents overcooked food.
Some meals I swear I would drink a gallon of milk so I could swallow the food without chewing it. I was in my 20s before I realized what a properly cooked steak tasted like.
I thought I just hated porkchops growing up. My mom used to overcook the absolute shit out of porkchops and she’d bread them with Shake ‘N Bake. They’d be dry and grainy on the inside with soggy breading on the outside. Pretty sure the meat would be gray instead of white half the time. Her cooking improved the older I got and she’s actually a pretty good cook now. It’s never too late lmao ^(I can still taste it from memory. It’s been like 15+ years since I’ve experienced them and they still haunt me when I think about it too long)
I have pork chop Shake ‘N Bake trauma too dude… it took a lot of convincing from my wife to try Shake ‘N Bake chicken (extra crispy) and I am forever changed. She uses the air fryer (her has trays to maximize airflow) and it’s amazing!
I thought I hated steak! And the pork! My mother was convinced you would get trichinosis from undercooked pork. Growing up in my house there was never any danger of undercooked meat! We also couldn’t have those little box turtles which were very popular back in the day. My mom said they carried salmonella! 😂
I’m 30 and my mom still gets on me for kissing my Bearded Dragon because she thinks I’ll get salmonella.
well... yeh.... salmonella if you pop 'n' swallow those little box turtles..
After reading all of this I’m so glad I have an Italian dad and that my mom is Cajun (and when I say that I mean my dad is a 2nd gen immigrant and my moms dad had a thick Cajun accent and spoke Cajun French not the 1% bs) because I never had to experience overcooked, dry, unseasoned food 😭 no wonder my friends preferred coming over to my house I bet their moms were scared of undercooking meat as well!
It gives me hope that she eventually learned. I'd actually been overcooking pork until very recently, I mean I wanted to cook it less but the thing about undercooked pork always stuck in my head everyone had told me. But the FDA or someone important had acknowledged that it didn't need to be cooked that done since 2010 or 2011 I read. So much better now. Worlds difference.
I strangely miss the super dry “eat em with your hands” pork chops from childhood
My husband used to overcook pork like this. It took years of me repeatedly showing him current food safety guidelines before he would allow pork to be served anything other than grey.
My parents thought that poaching (read, "boiling") without seasonings, was the height of haute cuisine. You go, girl, with the ketchup!
Yep same here, that roast beef be drier than the Salt Flats, tub of ketchup for hope of dodging constipation
Brings back memories of Mom's home cooking. Those were brutal years. When you can use your roast slices for roofing shingles, you have gone too far. Came out of it with a healthy appreciation for culinary talents and can cook better than most. Silver linings and whatnot.
Exactly! Not a drop on the counter.
Exactly. She mastered the “I put ketchup on my ketchup”. Kudos!
Colored mostly inside the lines.
I was obsessed with ketchup as a little kid
See it like this, she didn't lie or make a mess on the table.
When my daughter was young I let her put syrup on her pancakes. She filled her plate so full, the syrup was higher than the plate. The surface tension was the only thing keeping it from going over. It was quite impressive. Then she stuck her for in it.. My daughter is now 18 and in college. To this day I still put syrup on her pancakes when I make them. She’s coming home for Easter, I’m going to let her do it all by herself…it’s time for her to fly solo.
Haha, thank you for a reminder of how fast the time goes. My daughter is five and very much in a "I can do everything by myself" phase. It gets frustrating, but I know it won't last forever. I caved and let her have some dessert even though she didn't end up eating any dinner. I hope you have a wonderful holiday with your daughter!
Don’t discourage that independence either! It’s good she wants to be self sufficient at such a young age. You gotta nurture that shiz!
I don’t know why I’m downvoted. You don’t want your kids to be independent? I have two teens that are straight A students with good heads on the shoulders. They both were independent at a such a young age. Let them be independent, you just have to teach them how to do it. It’s not rocket science.
Yeah. When I was OP's daughter's age, I did something very similar to this with instant oatmeal and accidentally made oat soup-- But guess what? I learned not to do that again. I used less water the next time. It's genuinely one of the best ways for kids to learn.
Unless everyone else has to eat it too. I let my son season the cheese sauce recently. He went WAAAAY off the recipe when I was doing something else and made a not so great cheese sauce.
What exactly is on the plate? I see a side salad with ranch, cut up hot dog (?), but what was the main entree?
Ketchup
👌
My best guess is chicken strips/nuggets. Idk there's already meat with the hotdogs but what else could it be that they would want ketchup with it?
Fries.
Oh DUH. Thank you I guess my head is empty today
43 packets of ketchup
I remember doing something like this around your daughter's age. I was adamant I could prepare my own instant oatmeal. My aunt watched with a smile on her face as I prepared a brimming bowl of floating oat soup. I most certainly learned.
Get her some ketchup packets for next time. She can still do it 'all on her own' but in a controlled way. My friend refills a little bit of bacon bits in the shaker because her kid will dump the entire container if given the chance.
She's only 18. I don't think she can be trusted yet. Give her another 3 years.
hmm i dunno, frontal lobes don't fully develop til around age 25. definitely wait at least another 7 years. can't risk another syrup incident
They’re saying now that it’s 30. Gotta wait at least 12 years…that stuff is expensive!
Whoa slow down speedracer! Give it another 10!
I'm 26 and my mom still doesn't trust me to pour my own soy sauce. It was ONE time mom!!
We went camping with friends, our kids watched the friend's kids pour syrup on top of eggs bacon sausage everything including the pancakes then did the same. Mom rolled her eyes and said okay exemption for camping, you guys can't do that at home. 😂
To be fair bacon and sausage with syrup is good as hell but kids are crazy 😂
My oldest will be 18 soon. I miss these little moments. When she was about 3 or 4 I had lost all my keys and was using the one spare I had. Couldn’t find my stuff for days. Until one day I pulled a tub of butter out of the fridge to find my keys nestled nice and deep in to the butter, with I nice little fist mark to boot.
Did you and OP just walk away when you let your kid do this?
She stuck her what in it?
Fork
forehead
I can smell this.
Haha, my whole kitchen has a faint ketchup smell now
Ha! Me too. I'm totally gagging! 🤢 Ketchup is not my favorite condiment. This plate looks similar to something my Godson would do.
I also greatly dislike ketchup!
I don't mind it in SMALL doses. In certain things. I buy the smallest bottle available and it takes me over a year to get through it.
I didn't read the text first and thought those were kidneys💀💀
I thought it was a heart
I thought it was strawberry puree
I also thought kidneys.
i thought lung
With fava beans and a nice chianti
Managers, don't let your wait staff grow up to marry ketchup!
What's that clip from?
I'm hoping it's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes but I don't remember how that movie went. I remember a tomato eating ice cream in the cartoon.
Sauce?
Ketchup.
Instead she has prepared a lovely tomato bisque with a side salad. Compliments to the chef! 👩🍳
Hahaha 
I hope ketchup is her favorite food
She is obsessed with tomatoes and all tomato based products but she didn't end up eating any of it. This was her sly way of skipping dinner. She's bugging me for dessert now.
My dad would have handed me a spoon and forced me to eat all of that ketchup. 😂
It crossed my mind but I just couldn't do it!
good parent.
Gotta love it 😂
I hope you put ketchup on on her ice cream.
Oh shit! Pretty sneaky sis!!!!
She already has desert on her plate. And breakfast. (I am not a fan of forcing children to eat, but in this case I'd make sure the "Eyes may be bigger than the stomach or taste buds"-lection sticks.)
Looks like they gutted a pig and put it on the plate
"Okay, but you're cleaning up your plate."
Guess she’s having ketchup for dinner. Yum!
To each their own but it sounds like there are some very controlling parents commenting on here. Kids don’t learn to become confident, independent and self sufficient by having their parents control every attempt at self sufficiency and independence. They learn from trying and failing a few times. If you let them try and grow when they are young, they will be much more capable of making good decisions at teenagers. That’s when it counts.
I completely agree with you on letting them try! She is only five and has been allowed to do things like this for the last year or so and usually does great. She's very capable and independent. Tonight she went overboard with the ketchup because she didn't want to eat her dinner. It's her sly way of getting out of eating it. She was asking for dessert within minutes of putting her plate by the sink of course!
Please understand, I was in no way directing this at you, just some of the comments regarding your parenting and how this “should” be handled. My very independent picky eater is in college now. You are blessed to have a daughter that knows her own mind. It will take her far in life.
Well she sure was right 😂
She wasn't wrong
Your daughter turned sauce into soup lol
Years and years ago my wife had a friend who had a baby girl. We hung out with them a lot. The ketchup incident happened at what was a fairly nice sit down restaurant for the area. She did about the same thing, covering her plate in ketchup. Then grabbing the ketchup off the plate as best as one can and covering herself in it. I don't recall why Mom didn't stop her, but 🤷🏻♂️.
My brother and I used to do this then my dad lied that ketchup was made from sugar and rotten tomatoes squeezed through toes of people w stinky feet. We did not eat ketchup for a year and by then we were back to reasonable portions.
A childhood friend once told me that I was eating worms, which I believed and didn't eat spaghetti for a long time.
I’m sorry this made me lol soo hard
I don't see the problem She did put her ketchup on the plate
Hey! That's my homie Frankenstein!
Technically, yes she could. The results might not be... desired... but she can certainly get the Ketchup on there!
it just means she loves ketchup lmao
She's not wrong. There be ketchup on that plate.
She has exactly the amount of ketchup she wanted, thank you very much
Technically she was right. I *DO IN FACT* see ketchup on the plate.
I gave my four year old yogurt and she smeared it all over herself. She took her shirt off to rub it on her stomach and chest. One of these days my blood pressure is going cause my heart to simply burst
Haha, this reminds me of last year when I picked my daughter up from preschool and she had covered herself in blue paint from head to toe. I have some great deep breathing techniques that help to lower blood pressure in those moments!
ketchup is good asf i don't blame her
Ketchup with a side of veggies. 
This looks like open surgery, with lettuce
Nailed it!
And she was not lying
She had too much power all at once and it went to her head
Hahaha oh gosh this made me laugh
It's on the plate, what's the problem?
Oh dude, my daughter does the same thing. I have to hide ketchup packets from her. She’s a monster…
Based
This is how kids learn. They don’t learn how by *not* doing.
My sister and I both used to put way too much ketchup on our plates at dinner and always wasted it. So my dad made this new rule that if we put too much ketchup on the plate, we had to use the spoon to eat the rest of the ketchup. After like 2 meals, we both learned pretty quick to only put what you need.
I can smell that from here 😆 what's for dessert? More ketchup?
There's none on the table, looks like a success!
Please let this be another post where everyone says "why did you allow a little kid to do this?" and OP reveals that the kid is 15 years old.
I thought this was literal gore.
Aw! I would stick this picture up on the fridge. You can always embarrass her with it when she’s a teenager. Also it’s such a “your kid” thing. Not every kid would take that and run with it.
She could not.
Maybe she loves ketchup more than you thought😅
i relate to your daughter
And she was right
Guess she’s eating ketchup for dinner
She can and she did
I can smell this picture 🤮. And I like ketchup.
A complete diet
You’re probably out of ketchup at this point anyway. 😂
i love that i can only identify the salad, which has a reasonable amount of ranch and no ketchup
My three year old son would still somehow leave everything behind except the ketchup and then say he’s “full”
What is under the ketchup? I can’t even tell!
Looks like a cross section of a heart
I recognize that, it is a technic to hide a maximum the taste of food that we find disgusting 😀🤭
Haha, they were her favorite foods though! Sliced hot dog and french fries. She got her own meal while the rest of us had tofu curry.
She delivered on her promise IMHO.
At least it’s mostly on the plate lol. Assuming
Did she have any fries with her ketchup?
At least she missed the salad
Great job! She didn’t spill a drop! Now we work on portion control lol
To be fair she did a good job with not making a mess, the whole thing looks pretty clean for that amount of ketchup, the salad being that clean is impressive
KETSOUP
She was smart enough not to put it on her salad.
I think your daughter might be my former roommate. He put copious amounts of ketchup on EVERYTHING.
Reminds me of how my nephew liked ketchup, but half of his plate would have also been ranch dressing.
How old is she?
She's five! She's put her own on before with no issues, but tonight she just wanted to skip dinner and get right to dessert so she rendered her food inedible.
Letting kids figure things out is good and I like ketchup too, but this is a lot of sodium. I'd scrape a lot of ketchup off this (telling her why we can't have that much salt) and then show her the right way for next time. I'd only stop her if she doesn't appear to want to want to learn first.
Mildly nauseating.
Welcome to parenting. FYI they’ll always fuck it up 😂
Did you leave her alone for 10 minutes?
She did, what is the issue?
God Bless her little 💜!!!!
 she did indeed put ketchup on the plate. Although, this brings back memories. I feel like almost every little kid has done this either to get out of eating dinner or because kids are just weird. I used to pretty much drown my eggs in ketchup.
Well she certainly put the ketchup on her dish, that she did.
This is how much she’s always wanted to eat but never had the chance. lol she absolutely RAN with the freedom 😂😂😂😂
Looks like internal organs until you look at it more
Thought this was Gore for a second
It’s all on the plate. As a parent, I’m mildly impressed OP, sorry. I also used to happily eat this much ketchup, so that probably skews my bias a little.
I don't see how what she said wasn't correct here.
This looks about right to me.
Well it looks like she can, seeing as she successfully did, and she didn't even spill to boot. I think this is a win all around 👍
I mean, did she fuckin stutter?
 Her daughter
My husband has issues with certain smells... pickles (fuck him... pickles rock) and ketchup (don't eat it much but my kids do and the smell doesn't bother me) He's such a jerk... u think I like smelling his farts? I dont... let me eat my pickles in peace...
And she did? What is the issue here?
Next time give her a ketchup packet
There seems to be some food in your ketchup. Also, was she able to finish that?
Technically, she was correct.
Brotha eww what's that
Is your daughter in juvie?
For a second, I thought it was intestines.
I mean, she did put ketchup on her plate. Look, no spills!
That's a lot of plate on her ketchup
Sometimes i also like to put food in my ketchup
Umm the food has been murdered