You know that someone somewhere had the great idea to create these egotistical little packets. Hmm… We now have squeeze bottles and those fancy ketchup pumps at restaurants. Putting ketchup on your food was easy -so someone decided to wreck this ketchup-ey bliss and create these tiny little packets of ketchup.
One packet holds about 8 grams ketchup. On average with 1 serving of fries 5 packets of ketchup get “applied”. I understand that there needs to be a way to give people eating take-out ketchup. But usually they give you 2 packets. That is roughly 16 grams of ketchup- On average people use more than 2.5X this amount of ketchup at 40 grams of ketchup.
Why don’t they make the packets bigger? How about 40 gram packets? It still would be a pain having to open them and watch half of the contents ( precisely 4 grams) land on your shirt and making it appear that you are bleeding thick blood vigorously through your shirt.This problem is even worse for the Nations Ketchup users that enjoy bountiful amounts of ketchup. It is very tragic. Without Ketchup, fries are worthless to some.
Maybe we all need to install fancy ketchup pumps in our car just for the occasional time that we get french fries to go. Maybe the next hip option in a car can be a ketchup dispenser. ” Sir would like to buy this fully loaded mazda?” “Does it have a ketchup pump in it?” “Why yes it does” “Oh…Then yes I will.”
One third of ketchup is sugar. 1 gram of sugar equals 4 calories. One third of 8grams is about 2.7grams which equals 10.8 calories (about 45 kilojoules). If you use 5 packets of ketchup that equals 13.5 grams of sugar (almost 3 and a half teaspoons) which in turn equals 54 calories (225kj).
When you think about it, 3 and a half teaspoons of sugar is a wierd thing to be putting on fries. Lots of empty carbs there!
Do your body a favour don’t eat so much ketchup. As a matter of fact give the french fries a miss as well. I know they taste good but they are sooo bad for you.
Check out the movie “Super Size Me”.
Yes it is!
I personally love the movie Super Size Me, Haven’t eaten any McDonalds since. Although other fast food isn’t much better.
I also read the book/watched the movie “Fast Food Nation”, That was pretty nasty but interesting.
I don’t even like the stuff, but am annoyed by the size of those packages. Finally, my son is old enough to open them on his own now. How many un-opened packets get thrown away? I know that many un-opened ones have fallen off our fast food trays and into the trash.
Yes, its a waste of materials.
The person who actually invented the tiny ketchup packet didn’t actually believe that such a tiny amount was all anyone would need… It was invented as a method of portion control.
The founder of heinz is quoted as saying something to the effect that he’s a millionaire because of the ketchup people throw away on their plates. Tons of that stuff just ends up going to waste.
Restaurants were probably letting their customers waste tons of money. So, someone had the bright idea to package the ketchup in these tiny packets; this way, people don’t end up putting way too much on their plates; ripping those little packets apart is so laborious that they stop only when they have all they need.
The reason why most of these packets are made by Heinz is simply that a competing ketchup company had the idea first, and won contracts from tons of fast food restaurant. Heinz was forced to offer these little packets to keep from losing their restaurant customers.
Now, if someone could just tell me what makes this ketchup “fancy”.
I see we have similar thoughts about Ketchup, they get really offended when you bring your own into a restaurant. Especially the economy size.