I confess: I'm a recovering ketchup addict.

Way back when my cousin Bo and I were around 7 or 8 years old, we had an all consuming ketchup habit.

We put ketchup on almost everything.
We ate ketchup sandwiches, nothing but ketchup between 2 pieces of sandwich bread.

We became so hardcore, that when we took a break from playing Cowboys and Indians, we'd run to the fridge and drink it straight from the bottle.
That was our form of refreshment.

Of course that was back in the days before ketchup came in plastic squirt bottles.
No, it came in glass bottles back then, with lids you had to twist off, so that you could pour it out.

And ketchup was thicker then.
Remember having to sometimes beat on the bottom of the bottle to get it started ??
If ya built up too much pressure in there from beating it,
it could spray all over you and the walls and ceiling when ya opened the cap.

Come to think of it, it wasn't even called ketchup back then, it was called "catsup".

Anyway, my addiction carried on until .... one day, after Bo poured some "catsup" onto his corn-on-the-cob, and I observed him running his tongue around the rim and down into the top of the bottle.
He even licked the inside of the cap, taking in all that dried, crusty stuff.

That's when I knew we both had serious problems.
Maybe ketchup rehab was in order.

I look back on those days and find our behavior rather disgusting, and I'll admit it sometimes is a struggle, but over the years, I've managed to reprogram myself somewhat, so that I can now use ketchup in moderation, as it should be used.
Maybe I still use a little excess on fries and stuff like that, but I certainly do not drink it straight from the bottle anymore.

I'm not so sure about Bo though.
I suspect that to this day,he may still squirt himself a mouthful now and then.

Epilogue:
If anything happens to me, just know that this story got leaked onto FB or some other form of social media, and that Bo saw it and offed me in some way for outing him.
He knows where I live and where I work.


Edited 6 times by 1LewdDude Oct 1 13 6:14 AM.