Posted on 04/13/2018 2:34:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
[Photo: courtesy of Kraft Heinz] _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As if our nation weren’t polarized enough, a new condiment is threatening to divide us even further: On Wednesday, Heinz announced potential plans to bring “mayochup” into the world. It’s half ketchup, half mayonnaise, and if you ask some people, 100% wrong.
The food-processing company announced Thursday it’s contemplating selling the new product, provided it garners enough interest. It launched a public poll on Twitter, asking Americans to make the hard decision for them: “Want #mayochup in stores? 500,000 votes for yes and we’ll release it to you saucy Americans.”
The reaction is mixed. Some enthusiastically voted yes, though think it should be called “ketchonaise” or by it’s Utah-born equivalent name, “fry sauce.” Others bemoaned a nation too lazy to mix its own condiments–or that it left Hellmann’s mayonnaise out of the equation. Many simply felt confused about the entire ordeal: As one commented, “I voted yes, but I don’t know how I feel about it.”
As of Friday morning, over 700,000 people voted, with 55% in favor and 45% responding, “nah, I’ll make my own.”
Premixed condiments are nothing new. There’s sriracha mayo, peanut butter and jelly swirls, and, well, Thousand Island dressing. Heinz is likely making a good business decision, especially since its products have a solid reputation in the burger and fries game.
However, many expect more from Heinz, a company that perfected ketchup, especially seeing as how mayo ketchup is already for sale. In fact, it’s called Mayo Ketchup–and it’s sold by Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. You can find it in a Publix.
Heinz looks well on its way to packing shelves with its newest “creation.” Perhaps the company would have been better off if it had innovated something new
Gross.
Combine to your taste, Mayo + Tabasco!
I find it great with any sandwich.
It will even improve Liverwurst. ;^}
Another 1st grader? I wonder what that kid is doing today. Hard to tell from your one comment but sounds like the kind of observant cynic I would have made fast friends with, lol.
1953 and it was Springfield Elementary, Yes the same school which Bart Simpson attended only this was a suburb of Panama City, FL.
Russian dressing was concocted in New Hampshire in 1910, according to wikipedia.
In Russia it is now known as “ketchunez”.
I mix up the best of 1,000 Is. & Russian: ketchup, mayo, horseradish, relish, bacon bits, & hot sauce.
Spooned over a quarter head iceberg lettuce & eaten standing up while leaning over the kitchen sink JUST KIDDING!!!
;^)
This is superior!
Freddy's sauce is WONDERFUL ON FISH!
Wasn’t it McDonald’s that had the secret sauce decades ago. One of the early burger joints did — and it think it was a mixture of mayo and ketchup.
There’s sriracha VODKA. Quite good!
Then John Kerry says, “I’ll have my manservant add it onto my peanut butter,grape jelly samwich!”
I think one of the Consumer magazines analyzed McDonald’s special sauce and determined that it was basically the same as thousand island dressing.
“One of the BEST lines from a movie...EVER!”
Yes, right up there with “Life...will find a way.”
YUK! The only thing that goes with ketchup is mustard........Guess Ketchtard doesn’t sound very PC......
I would think Mcdonalds would be protesting releasing the big mac special sauce.
One less bottle in your fridge.
I don’t understand all the fuss. Growing up in the Philadelphia area in the ‘50’s, lots of people would mix ketchup and mayo and call it “pink sauce”. Very common for shrimp.
Ask the folks at Coca Cola about how wonderful that sort of thing is.
Add some dill pickle relish and it’s
1000 Island.
LOL!
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