#ketchupgate

No fucking ketchup?!?! On French Fries? I’m livid!

I’ve been to fried potato joints all over the world and *never* have I encountered one that was so pretentious that it actually advertised that it didn’t serve ketchup. (See picture).

But Thrasher’s French Fries in Rehoboth Beach, DE serves fried potatoes in three sizes, encrusted with coarse salt, offers you vinegar, but vigorously declines to even acknowledge the existence of ketchup!

I’m not even gonna review the fries. What does the quality of the French Fries matter when you don’t serve ketchup as a “philosophy”?! What happened to “the customer is always right!”.

I can’t even envision the pompous ass owner of this establishment who insists in flaunting his culinary arrogance in defiance of all American tradition. We eat fries with ketchup here, fucko!

Incredibly, Thrasher’s has created an artificial ketchup scarcity at resort towns like Rehoboth Beach, DE, by not serving America’s most popular condiment. Other establishments on the boardwalk have signs “Ketchup is for *our* food only!” One hardy entrepreneur was selling whole bottles of ketchup for $7! Can you imagine this?!

[ A more reasonable offer (a handful of ketchup packets for a buck) was made by the Mediterranean place across the street, which led to my enjoying a number of schwarma in pita. Much appreciated, on both fronts.]

For shame, Thrashers. No conceptual food snobbishbess is worth the kind of literal uproar your attitude has caused. One vendor told me a customer almost punched her because he was so incensed that he couldn’t get ketchup.

I’m boycotting your establishment and encourage others to do the same. No matter your reasoning, no matter how haute cuisine you think your “pommes frites” are, your food pretentiousness isn’t a welcome addition to the menu. And at $10 a bucket for what amounts to $1 of potatoes and peanut oil, you could spare a few squirts of the red stuff.