Heinz unveils new ketchup (catsup?) packets
The Super Bowl is coming up Sunday and don’t worry, Dinner Topics will give you a quick primer with some interesting tidbits later this weekend. For now, though, there are more pressing matters that you need to know before your night on the town later: Heinz ketchup has introduced a revolutionary new package!
This may seem trivial, but more than one reader sent this to me, so it’s obviously something you should know about. After 40 years of dealing with hard-to-open ketchup packets that were too small and accident prone, Heinz unveiled a beautiful new way (see picture) of dispensing ketchup for all your burger and fries needs.
The new packet holds three times as much ketchup and can either be used for dipping (like the barbecue packets most fast food places hand out) OR it can be squeezed out cleanly onto a burger or hot dog of your choosing. We are making strides, America, and now you know about the latest improvement in our infrastructure in making this proud country the best it can be.
As you know, at Dinner Topics, we don’t regurgitate news stories – we try to give you a little something more to bring to the table, so what better time to bring up the difference between ketchup and catsup. Sadly, there’s no interesting story behind these words, and they are merely different word variations on the same product. According to DifferenceBetween.net,
“Both the words are just two different anglicized versions of the original Malay word, ‘kechap’ which seems to have been borrowed from a Cantonese dialect.”1
However, the original version of ketchup (called “kechap”) was made of brine fish and spices and contained NO TOMATOES.2 Gross, but interesting.
Read on:
msnbc.com – After 40 years, Heinz revamps ketchup packets
(photo taken from the same linked story)
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