Ketchup and Coca Cola, Pepsi, or root beer.
Ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.
Ketchup and molasses.
There's even a sauce out there, though I don't know if it's for barbecue, that mixes up a bottle of ketchup with a bottle of grape jelly.
Tonight, I went for molasses.
It might show better in this next picture, where I've actually added the ketchup to the molasses, but the spoon end of this handy cooking chopstick has a tiny groove to measure 2.5 cc (cubic centimeters of volume) inside the spoon that itself measures 5 cc. I never use that cooking measurement and have no idea how to convert that into milliliters or culinary spoons/cups, but I think it's neat.
When I blended them gently together with a fork and gave it a taste, well... It tasted like ketchup mixed with molasses. When I changed the ratio, though, to add much much more molasses with just a hint of ketchup, then it was more like barbecue sauce but I still couldn't mistake it for anything but ketchup and molasses. I doubt salt would help, since ketchup had so much of that already. Maybe a drop of Worcestershire sauce and some tabasco would give it the complexity it needs.
While I shouldn't knock it 'til I try it, I really won't go for the ketchup-and-soda. The ketchup-and-grape-jelly? Maybe...one day.
For tonight: molasses-ketchup mushrooms with red rice.
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