It's Halloween: And That Means Ketchup!

 

Ewwww! Is That Blood?

Tonight there are a lot of goblins, ghosties and man-eating, blood-dripping werewolves running the streets in America. I'm sorry. Did I say "a lot?" The fact is that as many as 36 million trick-or-treaters will knock on 111.4 million doors across the United States.

Makes you wonder just how many extra bottles of ketchup/catsup were pulled off grocery shelves and sold for the all-important fake blood.

They really ought to include those statistics along with how Americans spent $2 billion on Halloween candy and bought some 35 million pounds of candy corn. WHO eats all this candy corn?

Everyone eats ketchup. It's the most widely used condiment in the U.S., being found in 97 % of all kitchens. I suppose, just because ketchup is found in your kitchen, that doesn't mean you eat it.

You may use ketchup to clean your copper utensils. The acid removes tarnish and shines up copper.

Did you know that long ago ketchup began as a sauce of anchovies, walnuts, mushrooms and kidney beans -- not one drop of tomato.

If you've always wondered at what speed ketchup exits its glass bottle, I'm here to tell you -- .028 miles per hour.

 According to Heinz, if the viscosity of the ketchup is greater than this speed, the ketchup is rejected for sale.

If you have trouble getting the ketchup OUT of the glass bottle, there's a secret, a sweet spot on the neck of the bottle. So just apply a firm tap to the neck of the bottle instead of pounding its bottom.

Have a wonderful, bloody Halloween and don't drop the bottle of ketchup!

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by Sharon McEachern