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How To Tell If You Have A Ketchup Addiction (PHOTOS)

If you put it on your pasta, you've got a problem.
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Taste Senior Editor, HuffPost

As food lovers, we know what it's like to get carried away with an ingredient or a dish. We went through a time where we thought sriracha belonged on everything. We quickly got wrapped up in the hype over the Cronut. And we might still be overindulging in all the new ways we can eat bacon. So we understand, as food people, what it means to have a strong affection -- or some would say addiction -- for a food.

We've known some serious food addicts in our day. Nutella fiends are easy to spot (and often times kind). Butter junkies are super hardcore. But when it comes to ketchup, those guys can be the worst kinds of addicts. Ketchup addicts think that this tomato-based condiment makes everything taste better. (It doesn't.) And they have absolutely no shame about what they liberally add it to (like pasta!). If this sounds like you, read on. You might just be a full-blown ketchup addict.

1
You Hate People Who Put Mayonnaise On Their Fries
Flickr: Bookeditor
Because what a wasted opportunity to eat more ketchup.
2
You'll Never Forget The Day Lay's Came Out With A Ketchup Flavor
Flickr: zieak
It was the greatest day of your life.
3
You've Got An Obscene Amount Of Ketchup Porn On Your Work Computer
Getty Images
And you can't stop looking at it.
4
It's Getting To Be A Problem
Alamy
(Seriously, you might want to get help.)
5
You Eat Eggs With Your Ketchup
Flickr: cyclonebill
And we're here to tell you that THIS IS DISGUSTING.
6
You Wear This Shirt, Like, Everyday
Etsy: IceCreamTees
Because you mean it. And if you don't have it, you wish you did.
7
Eating Fries With Ketchup Makes You The Happiest Person In The World
Jupiter Images
The two go together like a horse and carriage.
8
Heinz Or Hunts, You Don't Care
Flickr: uberzombie
You don't discriminate when it comes to ketchup. It's all freaking amazing.
9
You Can't Sleep Without Your Heinz Night Light.
Etsy: BodaciousBottles
And it only set you back $34.95.
10
You Show Your Feelings Through Ketchup
Flickr: Iain Farrell
What better way to profess your love for someone?
11
It's The Only Way You Know How
Flickr: wildinkpress
(But seriously people, ketchup on steak?!)
12
There's Nothing You Want More In Life Than A Ketchup Spigot In Your House
Flickr: Lucius Kwok
Knowing you have all that ketchup in your home would make you sleep better at night.
13
You Don't Need Pasta Sauce, Because You've Got KETCHUP
Flickr: manoftaste.de
Once you've committed this culinary crime, you know you have a serious problem.
14
Pulp Fiction Is Your Favorite Movie Because Of The Ketchup Joke
And Uma Thurman will forever be your favorite actress. Don't remember it? It goes something like this: "Three tomatoes are walkin' down the street. Papa Tomato, Mama Tomato and Baby Tomato. Baby Tomato starts lagging behind, and Papa Tomato gets really angry. Goes back and squishes him and says: 'Ketchup.' Ketchup."

You LOVE it.
15
You Have This Tattooed Somewhere On Your Body
via: gowanhaus.com
You
16
You Like Cheese And Crackers AND KETCHUP As A Snack
Flickr: Peter aka anemoneprojectors - camera busted!
(GROSS.)
17
This Is A Perfectly Acceptable Lunch
Flickr: goldberg
(But it's not really. You know that, right?)
18
You Hate Tomatoes Because They Aren't Ketchup
Flickr: burgundavia
Waste.
19
Ketchup Makes You Act All Weird, But You Just Don't Care
Flickr: tanakawho
Because you just really, really, really, love ketchup. Like a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. So much so that it even hurts inside.

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