Posted on 11/27/2025 6:06:28 AM PST by DFG
Patrick Mahomes has sparked fierce controversy on Thanksgiving after pouring ketchup all over his turkey dinner in a new commercial for Adidas.
The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, whose love for the tomato condiment is well documented, is seen sitting at a candle-lit table filled with popular Thanksgiving food in the ad for the sportswear giants.
'Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks, return home, see family, and meet new friends,' he says before committing what many fans insist is a cardinal sin by reaching for the ketchup.
As he squeezes it all over a turkey leg, Mahomes then adds: 'Thanksgiving, is a time to eat.'
After watching him cover his Thanksgiving dinner in ketchup, a number of fans expressed their bemusement online.
One asked in astonishment: 'Did he put ketchup on that turkey leg???'
Another simply concluded: 'Disgusting!'
'Bro ketchup on the turkey? come on man,' wrote a third.
'Aye he gotta chill on the ketchup,' said a fourth.
While one joked about Kansas City's Thanksgiving game against the Dallas Cowboys: 'Just by him doing that, the Chiefs will lose.'
Some, however, expressed support for Mahomes' bizarre methods.
'I also put ketchup on everything. Lol Must be an east Texas thing,' said one.
While another put: 'The Return of the Ketchup. lol love it PM! Go Chiefs!'
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I joke if the wife dies before me the first thing I’m doing is throwing out the ketchup. I don’t put it on anything. I blame being from Chicago, I took the “everything but ketchup” hotdog thing to heart ;)
But definitely, everybody is on their own trip. So long as they don’t expect me to eat it that way it’s all good.
Maybe I didn’t phrase that clearly enough for the non-Midwestern audience.
I meant a breaded tenderloin sandwich..
nfl, college football, and adolescent tee vee dead. Gimmick articles won’t work. ✖️
Agreed.
And sometimes you can pull off using Ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard on a hamburger.
nothing better than ketchup on french toast.
I don’t like ketchup on hot dogs in a bun (mustard and onion for me), but if I slice the hot dogs lengthwise and fry them for a sandwich, the sandwich needs ketchup. I don’t know why.
At least he didn’t put ketchup on a haggis.
Yes I like most Mexican foods. Quite similar to foods I grew up with in India. My mother published a cook book which sold many copies. I had no clue how tasty food was at home until I left home.
My parents put sugar on sliced tomatoes and that’s how we always ate them when I was a kid. Might be a midwestern thing, as they were both from there. Never heard of putting sugar on a hard-boiled egg, and I hate it when any pancake syrup gets on my eggs.
My wife has to put strawberry jam on anything like sausage biscuits, which I think is a North Carolina custom. She’ll also pour syrup onto sausages and eggs if they’re on the same plate as pancakes.
I agree with you. Why change the flvor if the foods?.
I only like ketchup mixed into the topping for meatloaf and into homemade barbecue sauce. That’s it.
Forgot. I do like it on hamburgers and hotdogs. Minimal amounts.
I don’t get it. I’ll put BBQ sauce on smoked turkey, maybe I’ll try ketchup.
Dijon mustard on poultry ranks much better. Ketchup is for burgers and French fries.
Ha! Now, you are JUSTIFYING!
Accepted...:)
Have a nice Thanksgiving!
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Nixon liked it with cottage cheese.
Nothing wrong with ketchup.
I’m sick as a dog (nothing catchy) but forcing myself to make Thanksgiving to keep it out of mother’s hands. She was long ago asigned to bring only the salad but managed to mess that up by putting avocadoes in the citrus salad. At 7, I realized I wouldn’t have 7th birthday cake so taught myself to cook real fast. This year it is chicken because I just can’t manage a giant turkey. On an IBS diet so everything is new but trying to compromise.
Why should anyone care what someone adds to their food as long as you don’t have to eat it?
Social media will be the downfall of all civilized society. As Rush used to say, it is a cesspool.
It is comical how much of the “news” these days is simply publishing who said what about whom. Talk about vapidity!
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