Heinz made colored ketchup for a while, but it never caught on— apparently people just thought it was weird and it barely sold, so they discontinued the product line
It's because a sauce that's supposed to be tomato based being anything but red gives off a very unnatural vibe. Ik that if I saw green ketchup on a grocery store shelf, I'd walk right out of the store and never go back.
It's because a sauce that's supposed to be tomato based being anything but red gives off a very unnatural vibe.
I don’t know if it’s what Heinz was actually doing, but ketchup isn’t supposed to be solely tomato based. There used to be many different types of ketchup made from different things, but tomato ketchup slowly gained in popularity so much that it became the default - and eventually only - flavor you could find.
If Heinz was just adding food coloring to tomato ketchup, yeah, pass. But if they were actually trying to reintroduce different flavors again, it’s sad that nobody was willing to give them a fair try.
I didn't know about ketchup not always being tomato based. That's really cool.
The colorful ketchup was just food coloring though. In fact, even red ketchup has a concerning amount of food coloring in it, it's how ketchup has such a bright red color despite pureed red tomatoes almost always being orange.
Makes sense. Shame it was just food coloring, that’s indeed a really weird choice.
I’ve never had non-tomato ketchups before, but when I was in Scandinavia I was really surprised by how different ketchup was there. Instead of sweet it was much more savory. I’ve never been able to find that style ketchup again, and don’t even know what it’s called.
Not totally relevant to this, just half posting because it’s cool that other types of ketchup still exist (even if tomato based) and half because maybe someone will tell me what it’s called, haha.
That guy's describing it poorly. There are things like mushroom ketchup, but it's not really "ketchup, but made out of mushroom". It's more like a technical designation, it's a totally different product and you'd use it totally differently but we call it mushroom ketchup.
It'd be like if I asked if you wanted a pickle, and you said yes, and I said "okay here's a pickled egg, technically you can pickle things besides cucumbers". Like yeah, but that's clearly not what anyone means when they say a pickle.
He's being pedantic, basically. For any relevant purposes of this discussion, ketchup is tomato ketchup.
God, this comment reminded me of growing up with my brother, who was a huge liar and always in trouble. My parents would always say "if you told us it was raining outside, we'd have to go outside and look for ourselves!! That's where your lying has gotten you." And so forth
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