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  • Chunks of bargain-priced beef alongside potatoes, carrots, peas and onions, in a soupy, ketchupy sauce, my mother would add more ketchup once the stew was in her bowl, because she is gross.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • She couldn't understand the ketchupy kitchen — “…and on a Powerball day,” her brown hair flopping like catfish oil while the TV laughed into a speech.

    Patricide: A Romance Chris Vola 2012

  • You tip-toed past your dad, the kitchen jaw was open, and you shoved Uncle sense, more than sense because the corner table crushed his thin tin dome near the base of his ketchupy brain.

    Patricide: A Romance Chris Vola 2012

  • The meatloaf — its eyes full of ketchupy tears — rejoiced!

    Spoiled Meatloaf Mike Lynch 2011

  • Once my dad tried to make cha siu, and it was a disaster tough meat, ketchupy goo on the outside….

    One Week Before Morocco 2008

  • The ketchup region is influenced by what they serve in Georgia “and most of the trans-Appalachian South – or for that matter in grocery stores – a thick, sweet, ketchupy sauce.”

    The Sauces of South Carolina 2008

  • The ketchup region is influenced by what they serve in Georgia “and most of the trans-Appalachian South – or for that matter in grocery stores – a thick, sweet, ketchupy sauce.”

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • I felt hollow, remembering all the times we'd sat together at Drug Fair, reading comics for free, drinking cherry cokes and eating those ketchupy French fries.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • I was walking home alone from the Drug Fair in Fisher Shopping Center, up by the highway, where I'd read comic books and eaten two servings of ketchupy French fries, moping by myself.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Then, like stately jewels placed on a royal pillow, the waiter would bring them to me and, after a quick squirt of a lemon wedge, I would submerge each shrimp into its puddle of ketchupy cocktail sauce and purposefully, with slow pleasure, bite into each one of these treasures.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

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