Mayoketchup - WHY HAVEN'T WE HEARD OF THIS? (aa1)

tostones con mayo-ketchup

    Think back to your last hamburger experience. If you're more of a traditional consume of the patty, then chances are you experienced that delicious combo of ketchup and mayonnaise mixing together in your palate. Isn't lovely when two condiments blend so well? Don't you just love that coincidence? Isn't is crazy  that you really don't experience that outside of sandwich culture?

    I am about to blow your mind.

    The glowing and obviously ingenious island of Puerto Rico took it upon themselves to make the ever succulent combination of ketchup and mayonnaise a cultural phenomenon, known as "mayo-ketchup" (pronounced MAH-yo ketchup, not MAY-o ketchup). And it is served and used with a million different things (especially my favorite, tostones!). For those native to the Western New York region, it's popularity is similar to bleu cheese dressing.

   This particularly amazing condiment has the smooth eggy tang of our beloved and certainly not cardiac friendly mayonnaise with the salty tomato kick of ye olde ketchup. Whether sold commercially or made at home, mayo-ketchup will most likely change your life....well, at least culinary speaking. Slather it on wraps, sandwiches, steak, any friend food, raw veggies...whatever!

   While it is a glorious substance, both pink and sodium laden, what I find most shocking about this whole affair is that the U.S. didn't make this a widespread revolution. According to one of my favorite cooks, that is to say, my mother, mixing mayonnaise and ketchup is no stranger to our shores, especially during the mid 20th century (ah, the years of Jell-O molds, marshmallows on everything, and hot dogs).

    Whether enjoyed pre-made or homemade, mayo-ketchup is probably going to be your new addiction. Anyone with serious heart or cholesterol problems...I'd say stay away, but this substance is so salty, yet creamy and tangy, that I don't have the guts to help you with your health. To everyone else...buen provecho!