I don't know if where I grew up had anything to do with it, I grew up in Chambersburg, Pa. I don't like ketchup. There was a H.J.Heinz there and for 3 months a year the whole town smelled like ketchup.
As far as I'm concerned ketchup was made for cocktail sauce. The town also smelled like applesauce since there was a Knouse Foods (think Lucky Leaf) plant too, I do like applesauce.