Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

The Ketchup Factor™ is a new concept that I'm just starting to work on. Basically it's a rating system for fast food (or any food). Instead of rating from 1 to 10 where 1 is the worst and 10 is the best, The Ketchup Factor™ would actually rate food based on how much ketchup (or other condiment) is required to make the food edible.

Two examples:

1. Last night I had Taco Bell. I know that's a mistake in itself, but I did it anyway. I realized how much I dislike the taste of the food when I was at home squirting about two tablespoons of ketchup followed by about a teaspoon of pepper sauce onto each taco just so I could eat them.

2. Sunday evening we decided to cook up a quick snack for a movie. My wife had purchased some miniature corn dogs and had included them in the snack. She asked how I liked them, to which I responded that they were fine. She said they tasted funny like chemicals. So I tried one without mustard and she was right. They were nasty. So, by accident I had made them edible with a 1-to-1 ratio of mustard to corn dog.

I think the idea needs a little refinement, but I'm thinking of something like: Ketchup Factor 1 - 5 where KF1 means it's okay, but KF5 means that you should probably just eat the ketchup.

Thoughts?