Technically this is fruit leather.
Technically this is a crime against condiments.
More importantly, a crime against humanity.
No one who eats that is human /s
Looks like a damn fruit roll-up.
Tomatoes are a fruit, so…
Not in California.
Or a blood clot
Just slap it on a wound like Flex Tape!
“We sawed this man in half but with just a few of these, he’s once again blood tight!”
Sure thing, Ronnie, let’s get you back to
beddead.Aren’t Tomatos fruit though?
A tomato fruit roll-up
By the foot? Nope. Yard? No. It’s a to-meter!
Frisbee
Hear me out:
But I want sugar, salt and vinegar too. It adds a pep to it.
No Way! No one does it like that anymore. Go back to the 90’s fossil.
I hate tomatoes but like ketchup. They’re very different.
As someone who hates both raw tomatoes and ketchup on a burger, my brain can’t comprehend why anyone would want either on their burger. Ketchup is just so gross. It tastes like if you added a cup of sugar to the worst marinara sauce and put it in a blender. Raw tomatoes, I can’t deal with the seeds. Weirdly I enjoy barbecue sauce on a burger knowing all to well that ketchup is the main ingredient.
I know a person who hates ketchup with all of her soul. Same for mayo, mustard, bbq sauce, any condiment.
However, she’ll eat a sloppy joe drowning in that sauce from the can like it’s her job.
Y’all ketchup haters is weird.
Lol, I’m not fond of all the condiments listed except bbq sauce. For mustard, I’ll deal with hot mustard or Dijon, but fuck off with that yellow shit. Also aoli is just mayo in disguise. Sometimes if they put enough of whatever the other ingredient is to drown out the mayo, it’s OK, but for the most part, I’m not a fan.
Yeah regular ketchup is too sweet and ditto on not being fond of raw tomatoes either but the more savory kinds of ketchup or other tomato products are fine imo.
Got any recommendations on one? I didn’t know such a thing existed, have only had heinz, etc.
So the brands I used were from local restaurants but Hunts has a brand with no extra sugar that is well regarded.
Homemade
I spent so long hating tomatoes. Then I had a BLT with Bread and Salt tomatoes and… that changed.
How I imagine the meeting went:
“ok we’re out of ideas… Let’s just go with whatever the next thing said here is.”
“… ketchup slices?”
“How do you even?.. God damn it… Fine. Ketchup slices. Christ forgive me…”
I think it’s more, “fuck… Bad news. Our Newark factory had an operator completely fuck up and use ten times the thickening agent for the ketchup. It came out as a big fucking block, 10 feet cubed of pure ketchup.”
“Sir, I have an idea”
Narrator: “Christ did not forgive them.”
Who comes up with these things?
Capitalists
With the unit price going way up by selling a 10 pack of slices for the cost of a bottle of ketchup, somebody probably got a promotion for this idea.
Great people those capitalists.
I bet they’d get along with my neighbors. I live across from a cemetery
Which is a great way to extract extra revenue from a piece of property.
Pretty sure you can’t own people, even if they’re dead.
Passive income
Probably the packaging company branching out into yet another type of individually packaged single-use plastic. Ketchup is an untapped market! (Unless you count the restaurant to-go packs, but those suck).
Do you mean the squeeze or dip packets? Those are brilliant.
I haven’t heard of dip packets, maybe they’re better. The little squeeze packs you have to tear open and put in something else to dip are just a mess, and I don’t like having to open so many packets just to finish my fries.
People who should be removed from polite society and left on an island far far away.
This is ketchup leather. It’s not a new idea; it’s been around since fancy burger places with wood walls and exposed edison light bulbs started to be a thing in the early 2010s.
It’s just dehydrated ketchup. It makes ketchup more of a topping than a condiment and helps prevent the problem of everything squirting out of the other side of the bun when you take a bite.
Besides your introduction you make a fairly solid case for this product. Have you tried it?
Sounds to me it would actually work very nicely on a well made restaurant burger (in contrast to fast food burgers), which tend to have juicy meat and therefor have less need for extra lubrication.
I’ve tried it. The ketchup flavor gets concentrated. It’s actually a neat idea and not an abomination against nature like a lot of the comments here. There are plenty of recipes online if you want to make your own at home.
The abomination is how Hellman’s had to dumb it down and call it “ketchup slices”.
The trick is, they don’t use ketchup in restaurant burgers. Not good ones at least…
Isn’t this just a tomato with extra steps?
That’s not a problem though.
How about a slice of tomato instead?
Whoa, whoa, whoa that doesn’t make a stock price go up
They kinda don’t taste the same.
They very much dont taste neither feel the same.
WHERE DA VINIGER AT?!
Tomatos are kind of gross on burgers. Like, I have thisnwarm tasty burger, lets throw a slab of cold on it to ruin it. Screw that.
thank you
Ultraprocessed mystery meat patty?
Yes!Ultraprocessed buns with exxxtra sugar?
Yummy!Ultraprocessed processed-tomatoes, but in a slice instead of sludge?
Ewww, no, there is a line!When I was a kid, I did some stupid things. And then the other kids punched me.
I stopped doing stupid things.
What I’m saying here, is that kids need to go back to punching the stupid kids. Someone should have punched whoever thought of this.
But my safe space! /s
Honestly I’m intrigued. I don’t love the individual plastic wrapping, but it does seem like a good way to get ketchup all the way on the edges without worrying about spilling it everywhere
Yes we must relieve people from the burden of having to master the difficult skill of putting condiments on a burger.
I’m from Texas, so they only taught us in school how to abstain with burgers.
I love the dirty
How hard is putting ketchup on a burger with a squeeze bottle, and a tiny opening? I’ve never “worried” about it.
Seriously… the mental gymnastics to justify consumerism are pitiful
“Im aware that its surrounded in single use plastic but im willing to sacrifice anyway”
I didn’t say I was willing to use it
Merely implied
for some people with physical disabilities it could be pretty hard
People who buy this shit are why companies get to kill a certain number of us every year without consequences.
It’s also why some of us are fine with it sometimes…
The first ketchup you could use to roll a fatty like dogg lemme hit that Heinz 57 Blunt
In American schools, this is considered a serving of vegetables.
I’d try it.
I doubt I’d like it for the things I tend to like ketchup with, because any thickened sauce that firm is going to have less presence on the tongue. Ketchup is a sweet, vinegary punch. You thicken that enough for a slice, and even if it’s meltable, you still don’t have the same capability of the relevant compounds to spread across the palate in the right way just isn’t there.
But it’s not some kind of crazy idea. There’s plenty of ways to get a “gel” version of a given sauce or condiment. Hell, an aspic isn’t exactly far off from this as it is, and tomato aspic is yummy as hell, if not as punchy as ketchup.
If it prevents the ketchup from leaking on the other end when biting then I’m willing to try.
If your burger isn’t leaking juices out the back when you bite into it, I think there’s room for improvement.
I think people have different tastes on this matter 😄
What’s the point of a burger of the condiments don’t end up on the plate for you to dip the burger into?
I like having clean hands while I eat a burger.
But you’re holding the food with your hands?
With my hands that are not covered in condiments and toppings because a reasonable amount was applied to a good bun. The quality of the bun is important too.
Out of all the burgers I’ve had, the best ones have been very juicy and made a huge mess of my plate / hands. It’s a worthy sacrifice in my opinion.
If the meat doesn’t drip it’s not a burger but a brick.
Ok, so what you want to do is like zigzags, so when you put the bun down and shift it around a bit you get good coverage, but it’ll stay neat. Then you can go literally the rest of your life without that problem. Welcome.
Wasn’t ketchup bad enough?
