Green Ketchup!? - Page 3

Pastachef · #31 04-25-2001, 04:26 PM

I couldn't get the green catsup from my food vendors, so I bought a couple of bottles at the grocery store and took them to work. About 80% of the college girls went ape over the thrill of the 'newness.'

Pastachef · #32 04-25-2001, 04:28 PM

Purple mustard? You're kidding! Why not sky blue?

Pastachef · #33 04-30-2001, 03:41 AM

This conversation must be doing a number on my subconscious. I woke up from a dream yesterday where all the trees on our block were decorated with beautifully colored blobs of condiments.

Isa · #34 04-30-2001, 08:48 AM

CampChef · #35 04-30-2001, 07:46 PM

I feed hundreds of kids every year, and food colors are hot. Our most popular colr of jello, which absolutely turns my stomach, is blue. The most popular flavor of slushie is blue, there is basically no flavor, it's just "blue". Green ketchup, therefore, doesn't surprise me, although it does once again turn my stomach. i often refer to ketchup as "the beverage of the new generation", just because of the mass quantities we sometimes go through. When we have a particularly wealthy bunch of kids come to camp, it's not uncommon to go through as much ketchup as we do milk! We're talking 150 kids for six days downing over 20 GALLONS of ketchup. When the lower income kids come through, they go for the fruit and milk. So the green ketchup is just the next wave for kids to get at their parents, the continuation of the solid sugar breakfast cereals, but that's another thread.

Marzoli · #36 05-01-2001, 09:54 AM

I think the green ketchup is available at some fast food places. Some of my students work in fast food and they say that the green ketchup is popular, but that it stains everything it touches. Interesting. Makes you wonder what's in it!

Pastachef · #37 05-01-2001, 04:52 PM

It probably only has food coloring in it to make it green. Food coloring DOES seem to stain fingers, etc. when using it. The girls at work complain that it stains their teeth, but it quickly wears off. I don't understand why it doesn't burn my stomach like red catsup does, I stopped eating red catsup years ago.

Pastachef · #38 05-01-2001, 04:53 PM

Just a thought...Why don't they make it light green like green tomatoes? It would be more believeable.

Isa · #39 05-01-2001, 06:52 PM

Reading this topic tonight I had a flash, I recalled a visit to an US grocery store, always enjoyed those because of all the weird food I found. To my eyes, there are things that are a lot weirder then green ketchup, something I have never seen. How about cheese in a tube, or peanut butter with jelly also in a tube. Chocolate cereal, cookies sold with dips. I could go and on. All this to say one person weird food is another one delight.

Green ketchup aside, maybe we need a more open attitude about food, being more curious about unknown flavours, more willing to try new foods. One last thought, lobsters are in demand these days, considered a delicacy to savour a few times every year. Have you ever thought of how hungry the first guy who ate a lobster must have been….

[ May 01, 2001: Message edited by: Iza ]

Pastachef · #40 05-01-2001, 07:42 PM

You are absolutely right, Iza

bdwillms · #41 10-04-2002, 10:48 PM

I found some purple ketchup in our local store here.

I bought a bottle and seem to be the only one using it.

It looks like that sqeeze paint the kids use for hand painting.

I guess it took over a year to get here.

Anybody have any sharable experiences?

Leo R. · #42 10-06-2002, 05:15 AM

Is this an idea someone had when they had been smoking something?

I say,why not change the way a product looks or tastes?
I`m sure most people dislike repetition,we are all looking for something different in food.
The idea of having green ketchup/catsup,is based on a marketing strategy,to extend the life cycle of a particular brand.
It may have a pleasant taste then again it could be revolting!
I left ketchup alone years ago,it doesn`t do my stomach any favours, i find it too acidic,Leo.