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The Heinz Ketchup Puzzle is here to remind us, not only do we have all the time in the world, but that asking a waitress for ketchup hasn’t happened in months.
The 570-piece puzzle is all red. No pictures on the box to refer to, no watching a fun image come together on your dining room table. Just you, your last remnants of patience, and a reminder that there’s probably no ketchup in the fridge. Available here.
Move over, Mayomust. Step aside, Mayochup. And, spare us that ‘mixing condiments ourselves’ talk. Kranch is here to answer your franken-condiment prayers.
Heinz is back at it — this time mixing ketchup and ranch dressing. This adds to their lineup of mixed condiments — all sharing the philosophy that ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise just don’t cut it on their own anymore.
Let us know if you get your hands on any Kranch.
via Heinz
Heinz Ketchup, already the caviar of condiments, has gotten even fancier. Heinz Ketchup Caviar is now a thing, and looks to add some much-needed class to a burger or hot dog of your choosing.
The high-brow tomato spread is available in very limited quantities, with only 150 jars being produced. The way to get your hands on some ketchup caviar is on Twitter… reply to the tweet below with #HeinzKetchupCaviar and #Sweeps.
America’s favorite ketchup presents America’s favorite caviar. Reply with #HeinzKetchupCaviar and #Sweeps for the chance to get your hands on one of 150 jars this Valen-HEINZ day. No purchase necessary. Rules linked in bio. pic.twitter.com/aa8NNebVk1
— Heinz Ketchup (@HeinzKetchup_US) January 24, 2019
Your hot dogs and hamburgers will explode with flavor, thanks to Combat Condiments.
The tactical dispensers, by Barbuzzo, are made to look like grenades and are colored appropriately for ketchup and mustard. Pull the pin and see how fast you can cover your wiener. Available here.
link via geekalerts
There’s a new packaging concept for Fat Tomato Ketchup that comes in two varieties, red and yellow. The yellow version uses yellow tomatoes to pay homage to ketchup’s Asian origins, while the red is proud of its use of American tomatoes.
The packaging by Czech firm, MAISON D IDEE Prague, created fun characters with creative use of 3-D rendering, and… wait a minute… Is that a Native American tomato? Hold on a sec… Did they… Is that an Asian person as a yellow tomato? Wow, that went off the rails pretty quickly.
The designers, while explaining their use of the characters, provide such a genuine lesson in ketchup history and origin, that it’s hard to get angry at their obliviousness.
“We were delighted that we could connect the yellow packaging with a oriental character of the tomato. Finally at least something points to the origin of this beautiful westernized word ‘ketchup’. This word of a sauce made of fermented fish or mushroom paste (sources differ) was brought to Europe by sailors (most likely under Eastern Indian’s influence) from China on the turn of 18th century.”
Of course, this concept wouldn’t make it past a sketch pad in the U.S. What do you think? Cute, forgivably ill-advised, slightly racist, or all of the above?
