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Friday, July 09, 2004
 
::KETCHUP IS FALLING BEHIND::

Holy crap. There's now a ketchup for the Bush & Co. crowd: W Ketchup. Their website: "You don't support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?"

And oh god, it also says: "Comes in one flavor - American." Eyew.

And thus this world gives me another reason (besides last year's clever Say Something Ketchuppy packaging, which gave my fridge a bottle that said "Comforts Burnt Hot Dogs") to be totally okay with buying Heinz ketchup. [Although in my search for the name of that campaign (no pun intended), I discovered that Heinz has no political affiliation.]

Heh, you want freedom fries with that?
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Yeah, there's also an ice cream company which basically markets itself as Ben & Jerry's, but with good American conservative politics and not that crazy Vermont liberal malarky.

In 7th grade, I actually did a science fair project which did comparative ketchup studies - stuff like which had the longest shelf life, which seperated faster when spun, nutritional content, etc.. There was also a big taste-test portion, which didn't use a big enough sample size to be statistically significant, but which did involve convincing a *lot* of people to eat and rhapsodise about unlabeled ketchup samples. The winner was actually Hunt's (Huntz?) by a landslide, on all counts, (including price).

I followed this up with an 8th grade study of chocolate ice cream. Blue Bell won handily. Haagen Daas lost like crazy - it's very chalky, overpriced, and doesn't last long. Everything else was kind of clustered around the middle.

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