The Misadventures of Ketchup and Mustard

Halloween here isn't like it is back in the States. First of all, it's spring here, not autumn, so the weather is similar yet a bit more optimistic. Secondly, people don't really get into it. According to my boss, it was only really in the last 10 years that anyone even thought to celebrate it. It's definitely more of an American thing. We saw a few kids trick-or-treating and some young adults dressed up, but mostly it was just like any other day. The few costumes we did see were basically just people with gorey make up and clothes (blood splatters, hollow eyes, black capes, devil horns, etc..) I asked off work Saturday night so that Rachel and I could get dressed up and go into town (dancing, gigs, etc...). We didn't really prepare much for our costumes - we only came up with the idea earlier that day. So we hit up the Sally's and a random op shop around the corner and found all that we needed to be the best condiments we could be. We decided on ketchup and mustard. However, no one here understands the point of the two sauces together. First of all, "ketchup" here is called "tomato sauce," and tastes like a mixture of ketchup and polynesian sauce from chick-fil-a. They eat it on sausages and with chips (there are no real hot dogs anywhere around here). Mustard is basically the same here as it is in the States. However, no one uses the two sauces together on anything, so no one understood why we would've chosen these two particular condiments. We thought it was cool, though. As we pinned on the vital "M" and "K," we sorta chickened out - or at least I did. I felt really lame. However, Shawn was kind enough to take a picture of us, and, upon seeing the photos, we both immediately LOVED our idea. Yes, we looked rather silly and no one would understand our costumes, but we felt cool. And that's all that matters, right? We ended up having a really great night, dancing until the wee hours of the morning. No one even really asked us about our costumes, probably just thinking we didn't even dress up at all. They just assumed we normally go around town with random letters pinned to our backs. Anyways, enough of the details... Here are the photos:

Front view (from left to right): Ketchup, Mustard.

Rear view (from left to right): Ketchup, Mustard.

Enjoying a feed. By the way, those are what crumpets are (those yummy bread things in the background - basically an english muffin mixed with a pancake).