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The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)

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17 pointsgotocake13 comments

Heinz is absolute garbage, and consistently the worst major brand on the market.

I want flavor. It is ketchup, it needs to taste like such! The only two major brands that pass muster are Annie's and Primal Kitchen. Everything else is a thickened red sugar with a tiny smidgen of vinegar added in.

Generally, if Heinz makes a product, assume its botched garbage and isn't anything like what it claims on the bottle. Ketchup, mustard, steak sauce, relish? All fucking garbage.

You're only here on Earth for so long, quit eating depressing fake food.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/trudeau-wa...

French's is making headway in Canada due to Heinz closing it's facilities and laying off 700 workers.

I still prefer Heinz. I’ve had gourmet ketchup and still go back to Heinz. I’ve walked out of places for using that Sysco garbage ketchup.

The more sugar, the better people like it.

This seems to be the case for soooo many foods. And every time something gets sweeter, my family complains and we stop buying that item. We swore off a pizza chain years ago when we sat for lunch and the sauce was too sweet.

Ha, was it Pizza Hut?

If it comes from a chain, it ain't pizza.

Every town has some hole in the wall joint that makes pretty good shit.

Possibly in my primate brain but I tend to prefer savory over sweet. But fried potatoes, salt and ketchup may be the key to why I have a preference.

I too find Heinz to be the definition of what ketchup taste like, but walking out of a place because they had the wrong brand of ketchup is downright silly

True but I’m a snob about it since I don’t eat fast food but do like a good burger. It’s something I rarely eat.

So it’s like the Van Halen Brown M&Ms, if they have Sysco ketchup, I can assume (yeah, yeah) the place doesn’t care about what their food taste like. If it’s homemade, I’ll try it out.

Considering how easy it is to make decent ketchup, I'm surprised that most restaurants don't bother.

I love me the Sriracha ketchup. I also like mixing my own with Franks or Franks wing sauce.

I don't ever eat normal ketchup

14 years later and we're still all eating Heinz. Sorry, Jim.

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