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Ashlie D. Stevens

Tomato jam is much better than ketchup

Ham and bread with tomato chilli jam Getty Images/Brett Stevens
Weekday Plants is a weekly recipe column from Salon Food that centers on easy-to-make and adaptable vegan meals.

There are entire internet communities dedicated to the hate of ketchup. One that I find particularly interesting is a Facebook group called "Ketchup is a Garbage Condiment," which I discovered while specifically writing about how ketchup, an invention of imperial China, became an American staple, albeit a polarizing one. 

This 13,000-member group was created with a satirical mission centered partially on exposing the "over use of ketchup we see on our feeds." Dig around within the group, and you'll find entire folders of photos of ketchup used in increasingly unorthodox — and occasionally stomach-turning — places: on macaroni and cheese, as a "dip" for Cheez-Its or smeared on croissants. 

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