Credits: Social Media
Squeezing ketchup on the kitchen counter is ultimate new relationship test
A new trend is circling social media that sees women squeezing ketchup on the bare kitchen counter to see what their partner will do.
The challenge emerged on TikTok this month and is a hilarious relationship test that reveals a lot about your partner’s household capabilities.
TikTok’s ketchup on counter trend
The premise is really simple. Squeeze a big blob of tomato ketchup onto the kitchen counter and ask your boyfriend or husband to clean it up. Simple, right? Well, most men are failing miserably at the seemingly easy task.
Instead of grabbing some cleaning spray and a wet cloth and wiping away the ketchup away in seconds, most men opt for a dry piece of paper towel which smears the ketchup over the counter and makes it even harder to clear up.
The trend can be done with any sauce really, and it’s just a relationship test to see whether your partner is like the majority of other men. It’s proving that, even in 2024, most aren’t able to clean up properly and make the simple task really difficult.
It all started with this viral video
It started in December 2023 when a TikTok user called Katherine asked her fianc� to clean up a dollop of hot sauce from the counter. People then adapted the challenge to ketchup as it’s more commonly found in people’s cupboards.
“I dropped some hot sauce and I asked my fianc� to clean it and this is how it went,” she wrote in the hilarious video which has had a staggering 33.5 million views.
The guy starts by smearing the hot sauce across the white counter with a dry piece of paper towel. Then, he chucks it in the sink and grabs a new piece, and then a third bit. The whole counter turns a bright orange color before eventually getting somewhat clean.
Women were horrified in the comments, with one person writing: “With a dry napkin. No water, no soap, no antibacterial spray.”
“How about stop smearing it??? Get up most of it without smearing, then use water or cleaner to remove the reside. I can’t deal,” added another.
Others said his cleaning method was “painful” to watch and made them really “mad”.
Are men doing it on purpose?
In the comments, some women think men are engaging in weaponized incompetence, which is deliberately performing a task poorly or pretending to be incapable to avoid having to do it in the future.
“This manipulation tactic is often used to avoid responsibility, forcing others to take over and perform the task instead,” Care explains.
That certainly could be the case, or perhaps men just aren’t educated in how to do basic household chores like cleaning. While gender roles are becoming more equal, it’s clear that women still do more housework on average.
A 2022 study into how Americans use their time by the US Bureau of Labor statistics found that, on an average day, 22 percent of men did housework, such as cleaning or laundry, compared with 47 percent of women.
Either way, the ketchup test shouldn’t be taken too seriously or used to judge whether a guy is a good partner – it’s just a funny and lighthearted social media challenge to try on your significant other.
