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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will never stop shaking my head at my mother's idea of spanish rice.

Make white minute rice.
Pour jarred spaghetti sauce in.
Mix.[/quote]

haha. it least it wasn't ketchup. My grandmother (who was otherwise a good cook) for many years used ketchup as a tomato sauce for pasta.  I think this was a thing in the 50's but I'm not sure.  This was in long island, NY so there were italians and italian food around. I'm not sure if it was a money saving thing or something else. I recall she had canned tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes around so I really don't think it was about money.[/quote]

That's how I had spaghetti back in the 70s!  Ketchup as the sauce :).  It was how the bronx irish imitated Italian food back then.  I think jarred sauce was just starting to become a thing around then.  [/quote]

I thought ketchup in pasta was an immigrant thing. I knew many Indian American immigrant parents who did it. [/quote]
My husband (not an immigrant, but from poor family) is an incredible cook... but them he will serve egg noodles with ketchup... [/quote]

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