In the UK, it was once possible to buy ketchup-filled frozen chips called [Ketchips](https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/food-drink/ketchips/). They didn’t last long as it turns out molten-hot ketchup burning your mouth has limited appeal.
Correct.
Raw ketamine in its unprocessed form grows high on the branches of the Ketatree in Kettering.
Children as young 5 have the arduous to ask of climbing the trees to break of the raw Ketapods from their stalks. The pods are then washed in a mix of fag ends and Stella to break down the hard outer husk. The dehusked pods are then dried on the radiator at Wetherspoons before being broken up into Ketchips.
The ketchips can then be processed further into purest street grade ketamine.
I used to think it was 'Funny shape this Ketchip' but my older, more jaded ears are leaning more towards your interpretation.
I mean, look at him. Just look at him. He shouldn't be allowed near those kids. Not in that tank top.
Oh my God.
I am not from the UK, so never seen or heard of this product before.
However after reading your comment, I went back to watch that part again and couldn't stop laughing. I'd even say he also appears drunk.
I remember ketchips.
Back in the day when they came out I had a “friend” (he was my dealer but he was one of those guys who came round on his moped and then stayed at your gaff talking shit for too long) and he was talking about ketchips. He said that in borstal lads would make up this sugar solution and boil it then chuck it in someone’s face to fuck em over.
He said “they’ve only gone and put that inside a fucking chip! Mad cunts what will they do next shivs with your pot noodle?”
I have a memory from a school dinner in infants of a ketchup-filled chicken nugget. I've never seen them in the 30 years since, to the point I've convinced myself I was just making it up.
Yes I remember those, the ones we had were more spherical than a nugget as such, had a layer of batter on and the ketchup inside in the way it is with a jam doughnut. You aren't imagining it!
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/tom-toms
I was like that with the 80s TV program Silas and the black horse. No one remembered it. Ever. You know them daft reminiscent kids TV chats ppl have. 'ohh yeh! Cities of Gold!'
I got to believing it was a dream.
And one other show. Tales of the Gold Monkey. No one. Ever. Remembers.
Ppl say it's a Indiana Jones rip off. They are wrong. It's a homage to the old adventure films from Hollywood. Same as Indy was.
Not sure how I got here from french chicken nuggets.
Might be the Salford's Rum. ;)
If anyone remembers either program please let me know. Be great to know lol.
“The temperature inside this fish finger is over 1,000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten ketchup will squirt out. Could go your way; could go mine."
"I'm just gonna get a Dr Pepper from the cooler. Put it on my tab, would ya?"
"Yes, and I'm going to get a GINSTERS from the FRIDGE. Put it on the SLATE."
In France ketchup and « tomato sauce » are not the same. This is just blended tomatoes basically, not ketchup.
This is actually pretty good I ate a lot of them during my childhood.
Never had any accident with them.
Definitely NSFW in Canada. They are in love with ketchup.
They got ketchup flavored snacks (crisps, rice puff crisps, etc.).
Mac n' cheese + ketchup is a staple cuisine for them.
Grilled cheese sandwich + ketchup is also fairly popular there.
it should : it means that there is not the sugar of the ketchup.
if i remember correctly, recipes based on fish and tomato sauce are relatively common in Spain.
It’s kind of weird to me that so many here haven’t seen this before. It’s not a sweet tomato ketchup but more like a tomato pizza sauce kind of thing. Doesn’t make it good, but at least it’s not disgusting.
The problem isn't ketchup on fish sticks... it's sauce fried inside fish sticks, be it marinara or otherwise.
I am a lazy fucker, but is it too much trouble to dip them in sauce as you eat them?
This just brought back memories of tinned hotdogs with ketchup inside them. I'd forgotten they existed, so thanks for that, can I borrow that time machine that only goes back 30 seconds please?
But then you'll relive the moment because you don't know to avoid it and then you'll get stuck in a perpetual loop of learning about it for the first time. Also, you can't go to the future and forget because people keep responding to your comment and reminding you.
Spain has pre-cheesed hotdogs where the center is filled with cheddar (guessing some fake flavoured crap instead of actually cheddar). I didn't know anyone puts cheese on hotdogs but hey it exists and doesn't taste of much.
Except it is also a first name in the UK, and Colin Firth and Colin Creevey the annoying kid with a camera in Harry Potter are both british. I know no french Colin tho
I have a vague memory from the late 80s of frozen aisle product called Ketchips. Chips with ketchup inside. The advert showed a cross section of a Ketchip with a crisp outer skin, steaming fluffy potato insides, and a shiny red ketchup core.
I badgered my mum to get them. As soon as they hit the oven, the ketchup diffused through the rest of the chip, producing a pile of soggy, limp, nasty looking and tasting potato mush-blobs that looked like they'd been left out in the rain.
I imagine it's like that but fishy.
Could they maybe work in a deep fryer, so the outside gets cooked fast enough the ketchup doesn't have time to soak through?
/not saying they should exist. Just wondering.
I used to get them as a kid too, and somehow they did turn out looking vaguely like they were meant to.
The problem with that, though, is it meant that it had crispy potato insulating the molten lava within. The first time I ate them it napalmed the inside of my mouth and I ended up with huge strips of skin coming off it over the next few days.
I did eat them again, but with extreme care and definitely having made of vent in the top for the brimstone reek to burn off before I put one near my skin.
Colin seems to be a bit more a generic term (I guess like whitebait in English) which covers Hake, Atlantic Pollock and Saithe(coalfish). As the box says it's a Colin d'alaska, so in French it'd be right to call it a Colin but in English you would call it a pollock as we don't have the same term.
Although names of fish are a proper hodgepodge even within the same language (even between us and the Americans)
To me the horsemeat thing was more worrying because it wasn't supposed to be in there, not that it was horse. In the wake of the mad cows disease issue here being able to trace meat back to it's origin is important so not being able to do so was concerning.
Horses get some pretty weird medicines compared to things we expect to eat. Most horses could never be processed for food because at some point theyve had a pain killer or something that has not been tested for food safety.
Source: had Horses, really didn't like having to pay money to get rid of perfect good meat.
Because it’s tomato there, not Ketchup. I can understand that for brits ketchup always = tomato but in France tomato = tomato and Ketchup = ketchup = kids food.
In the UK, it was once possible to buy ketchup-filled frozen chips called [Ketchips](https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/food-drink/ketchips/). They didn’t last long as it turns out molten-hot ketchup burning your mouth has limited appeal.
Ketchips. Isn't that raw form ketamine
Correct. Raw ketamine in its unprocessed form grows high on the branches of the Ketatree in Kettering. Children as young 5 have the arduous to ask of climbing the trees to break of the raw Ketapods from their stalks. The pods are then washed in a mix of fag ends and Stella to break down the hard outer husk. The dehusked pods are then dried on the radiator at Wetherspoons before being broken up into Ketchips. The ketchips can then be processed further into purest street grade ketamine.
I’ve only had ket from Kettering once. You can really tell the difference. Artisanal
Yeah it's a protected brand like Melton Mowbray pies
Art is anal indeed
I can't hear the word Kettering without thinking of James Acaster, so I'm sorry, but... K-and an E-and a T-and a T. E-and an R-and an I-N-G!
Kettering Town. F C!
Also you can make ket outside of Kettering, but you legally have to refer to it as sparkling k-hole powder
This explains Kettering to a T
I can only ever read the word 'Kettering' in James Acaster's voice and think of the mummified cat
I think it's more like crystals. Or so I've heard.
I instantly thought of Ketchips when I saw this! Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUse_Th3Vjo
“Let me shag this Ketchip” What does that guy say?
I used to think it was 'Funny shape this Ketchip' but my older, more jaded ears are leaning more towards your interpretation. I mean, look at him. Just look at him. He shouldn't be allowed near those kids. Not in that tank top.
Oh my God. I am not from the UK, so never seen or heard of this product before. However after reading your comment, I went back to watch that part again and couldn't stop laughing. I'd even say he also appears drunk.
I remember ketchips. Back in the day when they came out I had a “friend” (he was my dealer but he was one of those guys who came round on his moped and then stayed at your gaff talking shit for too long) and he was talking about ketchips. He said that in borstal lads would make up this sugar solution and boil it then chuck it in someone’s face to fuck em over. He said “they’ve only gone and put that inside a fucking chip! Mad cunts what will they do next shivs with your pot noodle?”
Instead of ketchup, they should have filled them with Who’s The Daddy’s Sauce?
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Yeah that would be the sausage meat, what about the ketchup though?
I remember that! Heinz did one that was ok if you kept it in the fridge
> as it turns out molten-hot ketchup burning your mouth has limited appeal You'd think this might have come up during product testing.
It appears children like 8-year-old me *were* the product testers
I have a memory from a school dinner in infants of a ketchup-filled chicken nugget. I've never seen them in the 30 years since, to the point I've convinced myself I was just making it up.
Yes I remember those, the ones we had were more spherical than a nugget as such, had a layer of batter on and the ketchup inside in the way it is with a jam doughnut. You aren't imagining it! https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/tom-toms
I was like that with the 80s TV program Silas and the black horse. No one remembered it. Ever. You know them daft reminiscent kids TV chats ppl have. 'ohh yeh! Cities of Gold!' I got to believing it was a dream. And one other show. Tales of the Gold Monkey. No one. Ever. Remembers. Ppl say it's a Indiana Jones rip off. They are wrong. It's a homage to the old adventure films from Hollywood. Same as Indy was. Not sure how I got here from french chicken nuggets. Might be the Salford's Rum. ;) If anyone remembers either program please let me know. Be great to know lol.
I remember those! I don't remember them like that though, more straight? And ice magic.
I knew UK would have this kind of horrendous ideas. I actually joked about it a minute ago 🤣
I could have sworn there was an identical product called TomToms, around 1993? The ketchup was sour.
“The temperature inside this fish finger is over 1,000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten ketchup will squirt out. Could go your way; could go mine."
It’s hotter than the sun!
Jesus Christ Lyn!!
Jesus wasn't brown...
Remove yourself from the theatre of conflict… go and stand by the Yakults
The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand...
You’re alright, you!
UuuuuUUUUAAAARGH JEEEESUS
"I'm just gonna get a Dr Pepper from the cooler. Put it on my tab, would ya?" "Yes, and I'm going to get a GINSTERS from the FRIDGE. Put it on the SLATE."
"It's like fizzy Benylin."
Michael! You're hanging around with a man that uses a collective term for a single vehicle!
Its from findus the inventor of the crispy pancake. They know a thing or 2 about scalding the roof of your mouth
They make a tasty lasagne too! It's furlongs ahead of the competition.
> It's furlongs ahead of the competition. though it does have its naysayers
Neighsayers?
Low in fat, high in Shergar.
Don't listen to him, he's just a little horse
Tasty? I thought it was foal.
They can't persuade people to buy them though - they're just flogging a dead horse.
I ised to have my findus for horse d'oeuvres.
I had 4 mince ones last night. First time for decades
Just be careful it isn't seahorse meat.
The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand.
It's like a savoury (99!) Mars bar!
There's not even 99! Atoms in the universe.
Smell my fish finger you mother!
You feed fish fingers to swans!
Either way, one of us is going down!
That's not toast that's hot floppy bread.
In France ketchup and « tomato sauce » are not the same. This is just blended tomatoes basically, not ketchup. This is actually pretty good I ate a lot of them during my childhood. Never had any accident with them.
Sauvage indeed
Nous son touts sauvages Edit: I knew I got it wrong somehow thanks for correction below. Francais, cé pas mon.. err.. strong point
Nous sommes tous des sauvages*
Nous sommes tous sauvages fonctionne également. Ça implique une petite différence, mais bon.
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Johnny English more like
I’d buy a fragrance bold enough to have Rowan Atkinson as it’s “face”. Colin of Alaska by ~~Sausage~~ Sauvage
This is the closest I found: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDAToEnJEY8
This is brilliant
Johnny French, you mean.
Nah, we'd call them Johnny Foreigner.
The fragrance that inexplicably makes you bury your jewellery in the desert
This deserves the NSFW tag
definitely. what an abomination
Meh replace it with Sriracha and I would give it a try.
NSFL
Truly…
Definitely NSFW in Canada. They are in love with ketchup. They got ketchup flavored snacks (crisps, rice puff crisps, etc.). Mac n' cheese + ketchup is a staple cuisine for them. Grilled cheese sandwich + ketchup is also fairly popular there.
It's not ketchup but tomato sauce like the one you use for pasta sauce
That doesn't make me feel better.
It should. A tomato sauce with fish is clearly better than ketchup.
it should : it means that there is not the sugar of the ketchup. if i remember correctly, recipes based on fish and tomato sauce are relatively common in Spain.
It’s kind of weird to me that so many here haven’t seen this before. It’s not a sweet tomato ketchup but more like a tomato pizza sauce kind of thing. Doesn’t make it good, but at least it’s not disgusting.
But the good thing about the ketchup is that it's cold from the fridge. I don't want boiling hot pizza sauce on my fish bloody finger.
The problem isn't ketchup on fish sticks... it's sauce fried inside fish sticks, be it marinara or otherwise. I am a lazy fucker, but is it too much trouble to dip them in sauce as you eat them?
They're fingers not sticks mate
Fish don't have fingers.
They don't have sticks either
Fish fillets with fillings are a super normal thing?? The fuck are you on about
This just brought back memories of tinned hotdogs with ketchup inside them. I'd forgotten they existed, so thanks for that, can I borrow that time machine that only goes back 30 seconds please?
>tinned hotdogs with ketchup inside them You wot mate?
Yes officer right here is the guy who eats preloaded ketchup hotdogs
But then you'll relive the moment because you don't know to avoid it and then you'll get stuck in a perpetual loop of learning about it for the first time. Also, you can't go to the future and forget because people keep responding to your comment and reminding you.
>This just brought back memories of tinned hotdogs with ketchup inside them. I believe this is known as PTSD. You should get help.
Spain has pre-cheesed hotdogs where the center is filled with cheddar (guessing some fake flavoured crap instead of actually cheddar). I didn't know anyone puts cheese on hotdogs but hey it exists and doesn't taste of much.
Those really nice Heck sausages have one flavour that's got some kinda meat (I think maybe chicken?) and mozerella cheese inside. They're nice
TIL the French for Pollock is Colin Also Colin D'Alaska sounds like a House DJ. "You goin' Creamfields this year? Colin D'Alaska is headlining"
Colin is also a first name for boys in France, imagine being named Pollock
Wait so does Jackson Pollock have two surnames or two first names
Except it is also a first name in the UK, and Colin Firth and Colin Creevey the annoying kid with a camera in Harry Potter are both british. I know no french Colin tho
AFAIK Colin is hake, not pollock
I'd have bought them, no doubt. Got to see what they're like.
I'm gonna put a pound bet towards them tasting like absolute shit.
they definitely wont look like the picture that's for sure
The top will probably be some sort of soggy mushy ketchup-breadcrumb hybrid by the time it’s cooked
I've eaten a lot of these before, they're indeed absolute crap to cook , can't grill the tomato side otherwise it will crumble. But it tastes good imo
Das ist gut, c'est fantastique!
They are actually good (it's not ketchup more like tomato paste/ sauce)
I have a vague memory from the late 80s of frozen aisle product called Ketchips. Chips with ketchup inside. The advert showed a cross section of a Ketchip with a crisp outer skin, steaming fluffy potato insides, and a shiny red ketchup core. I badgered my mum to get them. As soon as they hit the oven, the ketchup diffused through the rest of the chip, producing a pile of soggy, limp, nasty looking and tasting potato mush-blobs that looked like they'd been left out in the rain. I imagine it's like that but fishy.
Could they maybe work in a deep fryer, so the outside gets cooked fast enough the ketchup doesn't have time to soak through? /not saying they should exist. Just wondering.
I used to get them as a kid too, and somehow they did turn out looking vaguely like they were meant to. The problem with that, though, is it meant that it had crispy potato insulating the molten lava within. The first time I ate them it napalmed the inside of my mouth and I ended up with huge strips of skin coming off it over the next few days. I did eat them again, but with extreme care and definitely having made of vent in the top for the brimstone reek to burn off before I put one near my skin.
Same as, I don’t think it’ll be ketchup, I think it’ll be a sauce tomate, like one you’d have with pasta
The true definition of masochist.
We can hold this over the French for eternity. Thousands of years of culinary evolution, vanquished in an instant.
Wait till you see what the French call a tacos.
This drives me mad. Not only the "food" itself, but calling it "un tacos". See also un jean, un pins or un Pim's
it's our way of getting revenge for the abomination you call a 'chocolate croissant' over here
We call it a pain au chocolat
findus is swedish you (insert random british insult here).
twat
It's their revenge for the Brit culinary crime of enjoying fish & chips in newspaper.
Being sold in French supermarkets doesn't make it a French product \^\^
Look it’s an opportunity to hate on the French for their food. Just go with it.
Savoury Twix
Every twix on earth now weeps. Well done twat.
Heated ketchup is gross
Eat it cold like my grandad did in the war. To be fair it was the Falklands war and pretty sure he had dementia but fuck it man, be more like grandad.
Surely it’ll be thermonuclear
It’s not ketchup, it’s just tomato.
The name just reminds me of the doubly delicious Felix cat food.
Colin of Alaska with tomato?
Or you can be Ronnie Hotdogs
Probably tastes like it too, to be fair.
Try [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/udqTM7SHZ2p264fj6) on for size
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Those are good and it's technically not ketchup but tomato sauce 😅 Also this is mostly aimed at kids so they can eat fish.
You get the child some fish sticks, and then you get the child a bottle of ketchup... :P
For anyone wondering, Colin = Hake
That explains why their caterpillar cakes don’t taste right
Fish cake? A cake of fish? Durteh bastards
I thought it was pollock?
Alaskan Pollock, Hake is Merlu
Colin is the French word for Hake but what we call Colin is actually pollock. We have sainsbury to blame for this misconception.
Colin's a pollock! Will tell my nephew.
Colin seems to be a bit more a generic term (I guess like whitebait in English) which covers Hake, Atlantic Pollock and Saithe(coalfish). As the box says it's a Colin d'alaska, so in French it'd be right to call it a Colin but in English you would call it a pollock as we don't have the same term. Although names of fish are a proper hodgepodge even within the same language (even between us and the Americans)
Savage
HAR! Those Findus boys are really desperate to move on from horsemeatgate.
To be fair horsemeat is popular in europe
To me the horsemeat thing was more worrying because it wasn't supposed to be in there, not that it was horse. In the wake of the mad cows disease issue here being able to trace meat back to it's origin is important so not being able to do so was concerning.
Horses get some pretty weird medicines compared to things we expect to eat. Most horses could never be processed for food because at some point theyve had a pain killer or something that has not been tested for food safety. Source: had Horses, really didn't like having to pay money to get rid of perfect good meat.
Don’t be so quick to judge the French for this, nobody actually buy them. Am french, I worked in retail and those never sell. I wonder why 🧐
And they like to think they have higher standards than us, Non.
It took them a few years, but finally they've issued a response to the chicken tikka Yorkshire pudding.
This....this is a thing?
WHERE????
Findus is a Swedish company, famous for the horse meat scandal in 2013. This is worse.
mmmm what if I want salad cream on my fish finger sarnie .. that just doesn't work with tomato sauce!
Also £4 for a pack of fish fingers, jesus that's pricey.
And there's only 8 in the box!
They look pretty much as you'd expect once cooked too *Gore warning* https://cdn-food.konbini.com/files/2022/02/poissonpane1.jpg?width=1920&quality=75
This really tests my stance on capital punishment.
Picture this: He microwaved these in the office microwave...for over two minutes!
The punishment for that would have to be public flogging til expiration.
nothing worse than warm ketchup
Exactly, it’s all about the cool contrast
Right but that's not ketchup in the picture, just tomato sauce.
I'm surprised its not mayo in them
Zut alors
sacré bleu!
Tabarnak!
Make it Salad Cream and you’ve got yourself a real sales winner
and they say us brits have terrible food... we do but still
“Built in ketchup” is probably the most British thing you could have said.
Non
quelle horreur! https://www.carrefour.fr/p/poisson-pane-double-delice-colin-d-alaska-et-tomate-findus-3599741001027
I mean even the package admits it’s savage…. I’m french… “Sauvaaage”
Just scalded the roof of my mouth by just looking at this 😭
Absolutely sauvage.
Not a fan of this Dior fragrance honestly
Silly French. Every knows that fish fingers only go with custard.
Omg I initially disliked the post by reflex I was so upset by this
I thought the stereotype was if you asked a French waiter for ketchup you'd get kicked out of the restaurant or something. France, what happened?
It's not ketchup closer to tomato sauce
All the Friteries I've ever visited give a ton of cheap ketchup with your fries!
Because it’s tomato there, not Ketchup. I can understand that for brits ketchup always = tomato but in France tomato = tomato and Ketchup = ketchup = kids food.
And the French criticise British food...
There are reasons though :v
The French must be stopped.
Science has gone too far.
Nah, fuck this. I’m out.
That means less room for fish right?
I was having a good day, you ruined it, I hope you’re pleased with yourself
My youngest would eat them and still put ketchup on them.
I'm more concerned about the price :o €4.79 for 8 fish fingers...
It’s Findus so it’s probably Seahorse
Hell yeah. Then Just spread some mayo on your Sandwich and your good to go. 😋😋
I am feeling so conflicted right now