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08/01/2007: I miss Heinz EZ Squirt. I love blue ketchup.

There are a number of things which came into and ended production during this site’s lifetime that I really wish I archived, but few products provide such a sense of lost opportunity more than Heinz’s EZ Squirt brand. In short: Ketchup in wild and crazy colors. I’m frequently depressed by the fact that I was webmastering X-E when these came out and didn’t do a damn thing about it. Woe is Matt.

The concept seems to have taken on a general air of failure in more recent years, meaning that most people assume that that the green, orange, purple and blue ketchups weren’t a collective hit. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Heinz began the collection in 2000 with “Blazin’ Green,” likely because green is a nearly natural color for something edible, and not as offensive as, say, purple. The product’s success was absurd. Kids ate the shit up. Smartly, the “EZ Squirt” bottle was designed with a very tiny blowhole, which allowed ketchup eaters to properly draw faces all over their hamburgers with a manageable stream of jet-powered green ketchup.

With sales so high, Heinz waited a while before debuting the other colors. In fact, they waited around two years. The follow-up colors weren’t as much of a smash hit, but I think that had more to do with parents finding blue ketchup disgusting than kids not being into it. With green, it’s been said that many consumers assumed that Heinz used green tomatoes — weird but acceptable, if totally untrue. Blue ketchup, sadly, had no organic roots to cling to.

Sucks, because I can think of nothing more in the world that I’d love to cradle in my arms right now than a squeezy plastic bottle full of blue ketchup. I’m so enamored with the idea that I refuse to accept that it’s a dead brand. There are times when I’ll think something’s out of production, only to find that it’s just out of production where I live. If I find out that I’m wrong and 25 of you call me idiots as you squirt more purple catsup on your fries, I’ll be totally okay with that…so long as you’ll mail me a bottle or three.

What’s so strange is that the products arrived with so much fanfare and attention, yet died with a whimper and left almost no trace of their existence behind. It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that I’ve visited every page of the Internet looking for information on the brand, only to come up with a handful of news reports and barely enough images to consider what’s below as an impressive photo gallery:

Then again, perhaps EZ Squirt’s vanishing act and subsequent mystique plays into why I write out long love letters to Heinz on a nightly basis. If I could still buy blue ketchup today, would it really be that special? Amazing as the product was, I tend to think that something like weirdly colored ketchup could get old. Maybe we’re better off without it. The world may have thrown out their Nevermind albums if they saw Kurt Cobain in his 40s, and the world may have shat on blue ketchup if they tried to eat it for five years straight. Yes, yes, let’s run with that.

EZ SQUIRT DOLL, STOP JUMPING AROUND YOU R MAKIN ME PICTURES COME OUT NOT FOCUSSSED!

ALL BETTER NOW, PADRE

Wow..first one to reply…that’s a first…and it’s on the first! Damn..I miss those different color ketchups..I really want blue..

Are there any blue foods found in nature?? I can’t think of any.
I wish I had tried these but I was in college at the time and I didn’t have a girlfriend, etc.

P.S. I joined the last thread party late but I think I had some good ones if anybody cares. Look towards the bottom.

Everyone I know talks about how disgusting they thought this stuff was, and try to offer some psychological/cognitive rationalization.

Manimal: That’s a good lead-in for me to remind everyone that we shouldn’t cast poor old threads aside as soon as new ones are posted. Together we can make a difference!

Call me crazy…but I could not eat the green ketchup; in fact it was disgusting, the whole idea of trying to eat it. Ugh…

I will agree wholeheartedly that using strangely colored ketchup is not something I subscribe to on an “eating” basis…but I liked having it around.

See, that’s exactly what I was talking about! Just making you an example, Shaun

Also, I believe we must move on when each new thread is posted. Therefore, in addition to the main page you may talk shit about me in any previous threads. I will not see it.

HA! I used the green ketchup in one of my classrooms during St. Patricks Day in 2001,and no lie,it stained the table green(through a paper plate). And that crap was permanent. So it leaves me to wonder what the kids insides were like after that?!!

Man, I was really trying to get first post today. Stupid dinner… Top ten works, though.

My mom used green ketchup in her meatloaf once when the stuff was first released. She didn’t tell me this and I didn’t know there was green ketchup at the time, but when she put a piece of green meat on my plate, I just couldn’t bring myself around to eat it.

Nigel! Long time no see (if you posted in the previous thread, forgive me, I didn’t read it).

Knegitive - No.. I got to almost the very end (where you go into the last area in the Heartless city).. but I lost intrest because I had a bunch of other games to play (ie: Dynasty Warriors 5 (which I love because I can play the hell out of and then put down for a while and then pick back up and not feel confused) and God Of War (which is like a movie.. easily the best game I’ve played on PS2) but I still plan on finishing KH2 but I’m thinking the battle against Sephiroth is going to irritate me *far* too much…

That collage is almost good enough to cheer me up after returning from a week’s vacation at an island paradise. Almost.
Now I have to look at the last thread to see what the big deal is.

Honestly I am not that disappointed, or surprised, that this ketchup line didn’t make it. I am just very upset that I never bought it one time. That’s it. That is all I want. I just want to rewind time by a half-decade and buy the stuff one time. I know I would have let it expire in my fridge and tossed it out eleven months after I bought it, but dammit, I want the thrill of doing that.

I guess this is one of those products where you are a little intrigued by its existence, a little grossed-out by its appearance, and very sad when it is gone when you didn’t get a chance to sample it.

Lesson learned. Now I get at least one “eye roll” per week from the lady when we grocery shop because I want to buy some very weird product that neither of us find all that appetizing. My argument, “hey, we’ll probably never find this stuff again!”. She replies, “yeah, true, why do you think that is?”.

I never really have a good response, so like a five-year-old, I just slightly pout for the rest of the trip.

Spoken sadly, “I don’t care, does it really matter? *slight pause for effect* Maybe if we could have had it with those individual packages of blue Mott’s apple sauce we saw earlier.”

“Fine, go back and get them. But I swear, if we buy them, you better finish them!”

Eyes wide, I reply, “Really, really? Sure, I’ll finish them all, I promise!”

I can’t do ketchup for some reason. I will not send a burger back because there is ketchup on it and it’s not like mayonnaise that will cause a violent herk when ingested but green ketchup? Who can put blue of green condiments on their food? I am old.

I will eat spoonfuls of Mayo for the sake of grossing all of you out. Seriously.

Definitely finish it at some point Nigel. Sephiroth is easier than he was in the original BY FAR. Also, finishing all the requirements in Jiminy’s Journal is hard at all. I’m positive I’ve told you that many times before, though

I remember eating green ketchup and trying to convince myself it was fine, even though it did have a slightly funny aftertaste.

Knegative - Have you AIM? If so, feel free to IM me.. my name is Nigel Chaos (believe it or not!) .. same goes for all you X-E’ers .. feel free to IM me whenever!

Blueberries! OF COURSE! So obvious that I guessed I missed it.
Wasn’t familiar with Blue Potatoes. They look purple to me but thanks!

I am a lover of ketchup, and I absolutely HATED this stuff. Especially the green one. I’m pretty sure it was the bottle that did it, as ketchup actually comes out different depending on what kind of bottle it comes out of.

Those “EZ Squeeze” ones were heinous, in both taste and ketchup viscosity. Not worth it. I’m glad they’re gone. Nice gimmick, but I am one of those people that hates the image of the color of my ketchup being anything but red.

The best kind of ketchup bottle? By far the glass bottles you find in diners. Followed by the huge plastic bottles you get in 2 packs at Costco. And it has to be Heinz. No Hunt’s. No “Catsup.” Just Heinz.

And I hate mustard and I can only stand mayo in small doses or part of something like Special Sauce or Coleslaw.

I don’t do ketchup (catsup) either - however I assume irrespective of the colour it tasted the same? As I tell my boyf daughter ‘don’t look at it, just eat it’ - amazing how things taste good even if they don’t look good people!

Random blue food fact:
-Of all the colors in the spectrum, blue is an appetite suppressant
-Blue food is a rare occurrence in nature. There are no leafy blue vegetables (blue lettuce?), no blue meats (blueburger, well-done please), and aside from blueberries and a few blue-purple potatoes from remote spots on the globe, blue just doesn’t exist in any significant quantity as a natural food color.

Wow. I am learning so much about the culinary world tonight (both real and Roddenberry).

A.) I knew there was a reason I love this website.
B.) Matt passes the “Geek Test” with flying colours!

Sorry for the double-post … but Matt - Would you visit The Star Trek Experience in Vegas? (I haven’t been there.. but I watch a lot of The Travel Channel)

Manimal: Don’t forget blue cheese, which I like. I think there is also blue corn because I see blue tortilla chips occaisionally.

Matt: Could one of the reasons these disappeared is because, at least to me, those kethups seemed to stain stuff alot more than regular ketchup. And you know how parents hate stains.

I tried the green one and it tasted just like the regular one, so it didn’t really impress me, even as a kid. I don’t remember seeing the other colors those. Just the green and red.

I thought the concept of this product was great. But at the same time, what kid needs to be forced ketchup? It’s not overly healthy so it’s not like you want them to eat it. If they like it, they like it.

I’ve bought purple ketchup, once. I’ve used it a couple of time. Sometimes, I would mix it with Miracle Whip to make a dip. Then, I left the bottle at the back of the food safe until it gone moldy.

I used to love the purple ketchup.
However, the consistancy and the stains left on everything weren’t really worth it.
Perhaps they never perfected their formula?

matt, they -are- still in production here in kentucky. the local wal-mart -and- kroger both carry them.

Blasphemy though it may be, I am completely disgusted by the thought of abnormally colored ketchup. Probaby because I tend to “taste” colors if foods are oddly colored.

But if you think that is weird, my best friend is terrified of blue-colored foods and liquids. She won’t go near them. And I thought my irrational fear of Kevin Bacon was strange…

I thought blueberries were actually purple? I’ll have to ask the fiance, the aspiring chef of the house. I hate blueberries with a passion. He calls me a “berry-tic”. Go on, say it. You know you want to.

By the way, Matt, out of curiosity, if someone posts in an old thread, do you get a notification of it?

I could never stand it, but my mom would always get this stuff. It would totally suck when there wasn’t any normal ketchup but she’d insist we finish the green first. Gross ketchup is the grossest thing ever, so I don’t feel like I was being that unreasonable. There was some baby pink and blue vegetable spread (Parkay?) that I rather liked. It just didn’t seem as unnatural.

Special K - there could be real psychological justification for that fear - as opposed to you and Kevin…

lBue just doesn’t exist in any significant quantity as a natural food color. Furthermore, our primal nature avoids food that are poisonous. A million years ago, when our earliest ancestors were foraging for food, blue, purple and black were “color warning signs” of potentially lethal food.

Romulan Ale has to be some serious shit, due to the fact that every race in the galaxy, even the hardass Klingons, respected the power of the stuff…

Any good advice on how to quicly change you sleep schedule? My brain says “go to bed, you have to be up at 7:30″ but my body just wants to stay up. What to do? Luckily, no kids until next Thursday, and a slow day tomorrow….

Just the idea of this always squicked me out. I love ketchup, too, but green? Purple? Ugh.

Broomstick, you don’t have to play 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You can play 7 Degrees of Kevin Smith, or Kevin Spacey, or even Keanu Reeves

Ore Ida used to have blue french fries. I can only imagine the colorful and bizarre mess that would have made.

I was never really into the Green Ketchup… My little brother was into it though. I dunno, I just thought that somehow the greenness of the ketchup would amplify the nastiest elements of the Ketchup.

I worked at a Boys and Girls Club in high school when this ketchup came out, and the kids all insisted on having it.

I was going to say how stupid the idea is, but I remember buying multi-colored popcorn when I was a kid, just because it existed.

Tommy, I remember the pink popcorn would taste like s***, probably because of the food colouring. About purple food, that’s reminding of the poisoned mushrooms in Super Mario Bros.

Dammit, I hate getting sniped on ebay. I wish there were good flea markets around here.

Hello everyone, sorry to be such a latecomer. Too bad I missed yesterday’s post. And a Chuck Norris-related one, too!

This is werid Mat, in Wales we still have these - we don’t have blue though!!
The colours we get are red (duh!), green and orange… slightly less ‘exotic’ than you yanks!!

P.S still loving the summer party!! Make’s working through the summer slightly more bearable!! Plus I still have about 3 articles in the archives devoted to Admiral Ackbar to get through!!

The zombies in Romero’s Dawn of the Dead were definitely blue. I always thought those selfish SOBs should get a taste of their own medicine and should be consumed my a few humans. Just imagine how surprised a zombie would be if a few humans stumbled into a room, turned towards the rotting corpse, tackled it to the floor and began devouring it.

The whole “Romulan Ale” thing mentioned earlier. I didn’t comment, because, well, I don’t know anything about it really.

So today I got Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in the mail from Netflix, all in my continuing quest to try to relive these first few ST movies since I wasn’t all that impressed the first time I watched them some twenty years ago. I mentioned this a week or so ago, but don’t know if anyone recalls.

(It was only shipped to me because both 300 and Hot Fuzz are all out… damn!)

Anyway, here I am watching a scene in Kirk’s cabin (stateroom?), content in admiring his schooner, when Bones enters and offers the good Cap’n a bottle of the blue stuff in celebration of his birthday.

My uncle would blow a fit if I even dared to threaten to dare to drop some green ketchup on his chips, even if it tasted exactly the same as red. I thought it was amazing but had no idea blue and purple ever existed. Woe is me, bring back these and Pretzel Flipz!

If you get bored one day I wrote a blog all about Monster Munch crisps on my myspace page…. dunno if I am alowed ti post the link to it… so urm just search for myspace.com/captainofcharisma on google

Ok I am so tired I feel like I have been drinking almost but I wanted to put my opinion before tomorrow so my post isn’t wayyyyy on the bottom.

I didn’t have the unusual ketchup, but I love admiring the green ketchup packet in that picture. What restaurant had that available? I want to enjoy the ez squirt stuffed toy but I really don’t. I do remember the blue (and other colored types of food from the same company) fries that had jimmy neutron on the package. I also remember part of an interview with a representative of heinz talking about the ez squeeze multi colored ketchup he said it was popular and they were putting out random colored ketchup every 6 months or so you didn’t know what kinda colors you would squirt on your burgers. I am paraphrasing but he did say they were working with different colors.

My preference with condiments? I always put a little more mayo on my sandwiches and buns then everybody else, I also make up sometimes if I am not feeling too lazy a “fry sauce” which is mayo and ketchup. It’s like ketchup but creamier and not as sharp as a flavor. I am not scared of ketchup it just tastes better. I enjoy that with some frozen fries. And more restaurants need the mayo packets even if the primary use is to mix it up with ketchup. I don’t even really like ketchup with my fries I enjoy just sprinkling salt on fries and chowing down. And eating the top bun off of your burger when you eat fast food is so good but then you have to sacrifice eating the rest of the burger with no top bun. Sounds lame I know but that is just how I feel!! Augh!!

And I was saving my answer for the poll yesterday but the toys I thought of (after a lot of soul searching, I honestly didn’t get everything I wanted as a kid but I got good toys when I did get stuff) I didn’t know the names of and when I thought to describe them it sounded like no one could figure out what I meant. Oh well.

Apparently Pretzel Flipz still exist in America!

Need to import some white fudge ones and play Diddy Kong Racing like the good old days!
Just read that blog about Monster Munch, good read

hey, pretzle flipz in America? damn it… I just broke up with someone who went there yesterday for a month

Wow, I just got thrown back to a moment when I ate chicken nuggets and would draw on them with this stuff, then just squirt the hell out of it over my fries.

I remember we started out with plain ol’ red, then there was green… wasn’t too bad, but then mom bought purple because that’s my favorite color and I begged her. The purple was NOT attractive. It was sorta like a dark greyish violet. Very gross. Both bottles sat in the fridge until she decided to throw them out because I wasn’t eating them.

Sorry…

Now green ketchup I could handle-kinda makes you think of green salsa or guacamole. But blue and purple makes me think too much of sweet things, and I’ve never ever been a fan of mixing sweet and non-sweet. So yeah, bring back Pepsi Blue! Blue ketchup, no thanks.

Oh, and Dohopoki, I thought I heard that Smurfs are poisonous. They have cyanide for blood.

Nigel - Hilton Head, SC. My grandparents live there so it’s an easy, cheap vacation. I overcame my fear of going chest-deep in the ocean, but when I returned to shore some guy had gotten stung by a jellyfish. Kind of undoes all the courageous work.

Knegative: Or you can always play Six Degrees of Wikipedia. Quick, shortest path between Chuck Norris and ketchup!

(I was going to suggest Chuck Norris and EZ Squirt, but apparently colored ketchup isn’t good enough for its own Wikipedia entry.)

Ore Ida used to have blue french fries. I can only imagine the colorful and bizarre mess that would have made.

We were so excited to buy the purple bottle of ketchup. We got home, mom made fries, we squirted the vile potion all over them…and then we just really couldn’t eat them. I could not convince my brain that this purple shit was ACTUALLY ketchup. The bottle went to waste.

Ahhh, the green ketchup. I remember they used to have the packets at Burger King.

What’s up with how many different ways the word “ketchup” is spelled? Catsup? Uh. That may be the only other way. But still, I think my point is valid.

I remember one of my friend’s would only eat the colored ketchup for the longest while. I could not get myself to do it and I’d watch her while she ate whatever with greatest look of disdain on my face.

I could go for some Micro Magic fries with Stellar Blue ketchup right about now.

Does anyone else think that blue plush ketchup bottle looks evil? It look as thought he’s preparing to choke the next person/condiment that looks at him.

There’s blue M&M’s, blue gatorade & some of those gummy/chuckles are blue or have some blue in them, (I saw a Spiderman gummy that obviously had blue, (and red), in it.

To me, blueberries seem more purple than blue but maybe that’s from all the pesticides they spray on them.

I just read that the color blue is an appetite suppressant. That might have something to do with it…besides blue ketchup being incredibly unappetizing. Ooohh! Blue corn! Like what blue corn chips are made of! There are also occurrences of blue lobsters and crawdads every year.

One time my dad had a bottle of regular-ass Heinz ketchup. It looked perfectly normal, except the label said “Not Green” instead of “Tomato Ketchup”. I still wish I would’ve kept that thing.

This certainly was a weird beast to wrestle in it’s hey-day! My whole family leans a little on the off-kilter side of life: my mom loves watching surgery shows, but hates horror movies, my sister hates cheesecake (Still waiting on DNA evidence to confirm she is family), I’ve had enough blunt trauma to the head and random chemicals in my body to dumb-down the entire state of Rhode Island, and my dad LOVES Heinz ketchup.

Long way to make a point, but for X-mas one year we got him all of the different colored ‘mater sauce in his stocking. It sat in our fridge for a year before being thronw out. A family of freaks and a die-hard Heinz junkie couldn’t even open the stuff.

Sorry for the rant, I guess I just needed random blog-groupies to chat up today. SmileS!

I, too, am enthralled by the packet of green ketchup. That way you could get all the novelty of trying it without the risk of wasting a whole bottle. I’m actually impressed that Heinz would put it in packets, but since nearly all the ketchup packets in the country come from Heinz, it probably wasn’t that big of a deal for them.

I’m intrigued by that lone orange bottle of ketchup labeled “Eazy Squirt” instead of “EZ Squirt”. Is that one from overseas, perhaps?

So, if blue decreases appetite, what about Gargamel wanting to cook Smurfs? Or was he just senile? (He was never really clear on his motivations.)

Speaking of Bott’s Beans, can anybody tell me whether they are available in Singapore? Crazy question, I know. But I’m doing this international snack exchange with someone in Singapore and all I know about them so far is that they’re a Harry Potter fan. So I thought the HP-themed candies would be cool, but only if they aren’t already available over there. Any thoughts?

I am not sure if Bertie Botts are available there but would venture a guess of no since I don’t think their “sweets” run the same as ours do. I could be totally wrong though.

I am not a big Ketchup person because I can taste the sugar in it. It just grosses me out to taste sugar on my burgers and fries. I can also only eat Mayo if it is mixed with Mustard. I think my abnormally strong sense of smell has ruined some foods for me.

You know, I really don’t think I could eat blue or orange ketchup…I KNOW I couldn’t eat purple ketchup…But I must say, the Aztec-looking sun design on the burger in the top left of that collage is pretty interesting…

Sorry to all you Mayo-files out there, but I DETEST mayonaise. I mean, I hate it with the intensity of 1000 burning suns. Same goes for cheese. I’ve been known to get back in my car in a huff and drive back to wherever I bought the offensive burger I just got if it has mayo and/or cheese on it and march back into the restaurant and demand they fix it.

Yeah, I said it. I hate cheese. I can take a little bit of mozzerrela on pizza but even that I’ll pick off if it’s too much.

Love me some mustard though. Just plain yellow mustard, and ketchup, especially Heinz. Hamburgers and hotdogs just aren’t right to me unless they both have ketchup and mustard. Gotta say, the idea of multicolored ketchup is pretty fascinating but I’ve never seen it. I remember those funky colored fries that came out a few years ago. I don’t know about all that…that just ain’t right.

I do remember eating green eggs and ham in kindergarten when we read the book. (well, I didn’t have the eggs cause if there’s one thing in this world I almost hate as much as cheese or mayo, it’s eggs). We also had chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers….yum.

Chris Martin Thank you for clearing up where those packets came from now I have a very very faint remembrance of the burger king ketchup wacky for kids packets. Now to clear something up and to say something that I was going to say anyway. Catsup is ketchup without sugar that was made so diabetics could enjoy it. And ketchup is obviously with sugar. I bet there are some really interesting flavored organic ketchups out there with no sugar that is just like tomato sauce.

But it’s funny after I found out the difference between Catsup and ketchup I haven’t seen any catsup just low carb or no carb ketchup. Which probably just has splenda in it pffft I mean come on I don’t want a hint of splenda in my ketchup!

Like Matt, this is one of many “fad” product lines that came and went in my time of paying attention to such things…ie, working at a grocery store. I sold these during the height of their popularity, though I never tried them myself.

OMG, I had the green ketchup. And when I tell you I love ketchup, eat it all the time, I thought this was going to be the coolest thing ever. So I bought it, and I squeezed some onto the plate for my corndog, and it was this funky olivey/bright green color, and it positively disgusted me. It tasted almost the same, but it looked so vile actually on food that I couldn’t bring myself to eat it. I tried on several occasions, but every time I failed. I can’t even imagine the purple and blue versions.

My kindergarten or nursery school class also made green eggs and ham! I remember being disgusted, but I was a really finicky eater back then. Now I have an appetite which I daresay is probably overactive. But green eggs and ham…hmm… I think I’d still have to be drunk since even if it isn’t spoiled and moldy, it just makes you think that. Just too much of those repressed caveman memories.

Jumping ahead a thread, I’m not sure I’d want to put anything that looks like E.T. in my mouth.

same here. those fries kicked everybody’s ass. that green shit stained everything though. skin even. see, thats how you KNOW its good

I remember getting a bottle of that and everyone in my family refused to eat it but me. I really don’t get why, it’s just ketchup that happens to be green. If you already hate ketchup, fine, but there was really no discernible difference taste wise. I wish I could have tried the blue, purple, and orange ones, just to say I had them all.

On another note, I always wondered what the ketchup was like for people who were colorblind.

My grandfather had a bottle of the green stuff in his fridge for YEARS. I’m pretty sure it was there the day he died six months ago.

Apparently liking shit in weird colors runs in my family, as my mother had pink and blue liquid butter in the fridge for years. We never used it. I guess she just liked the way the colors livened up the interior.

Right, does ANYONE but me remember a ketchup put out my Heinz in the mid-90s called Sparky? It was advertised as “The Heinz with sparkles!”. I dunno whether it was only released in Canada or not. The sparkles were actually little chunks of…not sparkles. I suppose it was mixed with relish and other things.

Oh, by the way, I still have an unopened bottle of purple ketchup in the basement, right next to the unopened box of cocoa Frosted Flakes with Vince Carter on the box.

What color was in the mystery color bottle?! Best bottle, btw. There should have been some sort of disgusting rainbow ketchup. That would have been awesome.

I remmeber this… but I also remmeber Sparkle or something like that. It was ketchup with sparkles in it.

My most-missed ketchup was Ketchup Kickr’s or something like that. I think they had 3 kinds, but the one was spicy and ohhhh that was delicious! I really wish I could find that again.

wow, I distinctly remember having a whole collection. I had blue, green, and purple. The purple was cool to put on crap and freak people that came to your house out. They would always ask what I was eating and if it was safe.

I don’t know if you’ll still check this thread or not but Squee: I just asked a friend of mine who lives in Singapore and he said he’s never seen Bertie Botts’ Beans there, but that there’s a big candy store that sells nearly everything. However, he’s not sure they have them, so unless your friend has specifically looked for them he probably hasn’t found them either.

Wow. At first for three months I ate the green stuff up and then never touched ketchup again for months. Currently peanuts are on the “probation” list.

I worked at Burger King the summer that Heinz’s green ketchup came out. BK jumped on the band wagon and we had boxes and boxes of green ketchup packets to give away to customers. It wasn’t popular at all, and even a lot of kids wouldn’t eat it, even after I told them that it tasted the same, only it was green. Our manager wouldn’t let us give the customers regular ketchup packets until the green shit was gone. So even though there were boxes of regular ketchup packets in the back room, we were forced to lie to customers and say we only had the green stuff. The customers got pissed, especially the old ones.

While I’m not a fan of ketchup, I’d enjoy putting weird colored mustard on a corndog or burger. Maybe French’s needs some prodding.

Man I miss this ketchup. I feel sort of responsible in a way for it’s demise because I never bought any - I just used it constantly at a great cajun restaurant when I lived in Louisiana. Everything there was fried, even the bread that came with the seafood platter I always got there. And it would come with a bushel of fries. I guess they were trying to attract customers with kids because they always had all three colors of ketchup - and I loved using the green and purple ketchup. It was a bit too sweet, but just for the color alone I had to have it. And of course, if you used the mustard, you’d have mardi gras colors with purple, green and yellow. Sad to see it’s actually all gone…

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