Ketchup Dilemma

I never realized how MUCH ketchup Americans consume until I moved to France.  I don’t know about everyone's children, but mine have a love affair with ketchup that is like no other. And, our local American Fast Food joints and restaurants were happy to oblige our family obsession by providing oodles and oodles of ketchup bottles, packages, in amounts that could fill up a small car. My kids smear it on basically anything that can be held or dipped….but here, in old Paree, ketchup is a bit of a rarity. True, they have the French Fries, but ketchup, not so much.  For whatever reason, when Ketchup is requested, instead of coming in bulk, it comes in a miniscule little package that you couldn’t even smear on one fry. 

 When the waiter hands the requested packet to my unsuspecting children, their faces fill with horror as they quickly realize that they hold in their hands enough ketchup to put on the tip of a toothbrush, and not necessarily on a hamburger.  Soooo, as with  many other things, these Americans will have to get used to being ketchup deprived!!