The New Shortage: Ketchup Can’t Catch Up The pandemic turned restaurants into takeout specialists, boosting demand for the condiment; ‘Everyone out there is grabbing for ketchup’

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[mylife]

Damn you John Heinz Kerry! Damn you to hell!

[nickcarraway]

How can adults eat ketchup?

[monkeyshine]

We’ve been hunting high and low

Ah, a punster eh?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Ive noticed that places such as Denny’s, used to have bottles.of ketchup and salt and pepper shakers on the tables. They took those away as a response to the pandemic. The story about ketchup here should also apply to salt and pepper and mustard.

[Psalm 73]

“Preps” baby - keeping a steadily-rotated stock of condiments. And lots of hot sauce.

[Harpotoo]

Raise your culinary IQ and use Steak Sauce or some other better condiment:-)

[mylife]

[a fool in paradise]

Just buy your own. Those little packets are good for much anyhow and they are a ticking timebomb if you keep them in a drawer until they burst/leak.

[a fool in paradise]

HEB sells that too.

[mylife]

and its Gooooood...

[Carriage Hill]

Hundreds of Heinz and Weis generic ketchup bottles at Weis Markets, here in York. No shortage of “Navy Gravy”.

[entropy12]

Use Sriracha sauce instead. Much more adult flavor than kiddie ketchup.

[mylife]

a bottle last me for years in the fridge.

[Carriage Hill]

I use both.

[Carriage Hill]

For me, it depends how many fries and other potatoes I eat. I can blow thru 2-3 bottles/ year, eating FIVE GUYS burgers and fries.

[Seruzawa]

[Carriage Hill]

I have 6 bottles of ketchup and 7 bottles of mustard downstairs in my “preps”. 17 5-level shelves of assorted foods, condiments, soups etc. Enough for 2 people for a year.

[ScubaDiver]

Five Guys is delicious....and priced accordingly. Picked up dinner for four there a couple weeks ago and the bill was over $55...for burgers and fries. Yikes.

[gloryblaze]

How can adults eat ketchup?

I use my mouth. Seriously, though, I like it, and so I eat it, with Hunt's as my favorite.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Whenever I ask the clerk at a fast food restaurant for ketchup, he/she almost invariably gives me a huge handful when I only need 2 or 3 packets.

If they rationed them better maybe they wouldn’t have a shortage.