Question of the Day

Do you eat fried chicken with ketchup? And if you do, where in the US are you from?

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Me: Hey roomie, want some ketchup to go with that Popeye's fried chicken?

Roommate (RM): want some what?

Me: Ketchup.

RM: You eat fried chicken with ketchup?

Me: Um...yeah. Doesn't everybody?

RM: No.

Me: Huh? Who doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup?

RM: Nobody eats fried chicken with ketchup. Southerners don't, and where does fried chicken come from? The south! [she's from Louisiana].

Me: You're pulling my strings.

RM: It's true! I dont' know anyone who eats fried chicken with ketchup.

Me: My entire family does! And my boyfriend does! And everybody I know since growing up eats fried chicken with ketchup. We pile on the ketchup.

RM: Maybe it's a coastal thing. I know southerners don't do it.

Me: Let me call my friend Q from South Carolina and see if that's true.

..... conversation with Q.....

Q: Hi there.

Me: I just realized that you don't eat chicken on the bone, so did you find out if your family eats fried chicken with ketchup?

Q: My dad and brother says they've never heard of anyone eating fried chicken with ketchup.

Me: WHAT?!

Q: You're just weird.

Me: I've never heard of anyone not eating fried chicken with ketchup until today.

Q: Yeah, you're just weird.

Me: I have to ask another person from the south about this fried chicken with ketchup thing.

Q: Okay, weirdo.

.....conversation with the roommate....

Me: My friend from South Carolina says her family doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup either!

RM: See, I told you.

Me: I'm going to find a southerner who eats fried chicken with ketchup, even if it kills me.

RM: okay, now.

.....conversation with the Boy....

Me: Want to know something really weird?

BF: what?

Me: People from the south don't eat fried chicken with ketchup.

BF: What do they eat it with?

Me: Nothing.

BF: That's weird.

Me: I know!

BF: Who told you that?

Me: The roomie and Q, who said her dad and brother doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup.

BF: Why would anyone not eat fried chicken with ketchup?

Me: I know!! That's what I keep asking.

BF: That's just weird. Fried chicken with no ketchup.

Me: Honey, apparantly we're the weirdos for doing that.