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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

May be it’s an Indian thing? I remember an Indian corridor mate in student housing asked for ketchup for spaghetti. I didn’t have ketchup and offered him a few tomatoes I had. He refused and said tomatoes wouldn’t work, he needed ketchup. I thought he was just being considerate since tomatoes would be more pricy than ketchup but now I wonder if he really preferred to make the sauce with ketchup.[/quote]
If it's an Indian-American thing, it's regional. None of my Indian-American friends in the part of the country I grew up (or that I met in college, grad school, life) do this. It's not like we made homemade marinara or anything...but we bought Ragu from the grocery store.

Ketchup in India is spicier than here, and small dabs might be used with a noodle dish (like Indian version of ramen noodles with Indian spices)...but not like spaghetti sauce. Is that what you all mean?[/quote]

PP here. No, some older Indian Americans I knew put regular American Heinz ketchup into pasta. I remember it most vividly in elbow macaroni.[/quote]

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