Thursday, April 9, 2009

Weird combos of Ketchup


Hello! This is my sixth blog and im doing it on Ketchup, and some of the weird combinations people put it with. As you are aware Ketchup is tasty way to spicen up your food for extra flavor, but you usually only see it on French Fries, Hashbrowns, and Hot Dogs right? Well, this is the purpose of why I'm doing this post, to find some weird food combinations using Ketchup. Lets Begin!

One I saw my friend eating Pancakes and yes the ketchup was one it and it was all smired around, now I don't know about you but i like to taste my food the way it was made to taste, but putting Ketchup on it just wrecks the food and doesnt give it a chance. Another one I found actually by the same friend (Kevin) was Ketchup on Corn, and let me tell you it looked disgusting and when i tried it, it was disgusting! But that's their opinion and their taste buds. That's why Henry J. Heinz made the ketchup to help people spicen up your food.

Before I end though, I need to say one meal that uses ketchup that is disgusting and don't understand. That is Ketchup on a bun, and this one i got from my little brother, but I mean isnt that why they made Jam and Peanut Butter?

Thank You for reading these posts lately!

Sunday, April 5, 2009



For my Fifth Post im doing my based on the creator of Ketchup (Henry J. Heinz). I will be giving you info about him, where he was born and so on.


Now, Henry was one of eight children born in the Heinz family. His family emigrated to the States from Germany and settled in the "South Side" of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 6 young Henry helped out his mother around the house, and outside in the garden by going door to door selling vegetables. At the age of nine Henry invented his very first sauce called "Horseradish" sauce. At the age of ten his parents gave him 3/4 acer behind their house, and got premoted to using the wheelbarrow to do deliever his vegetables easier. Henry kept on rasing up in everything from a bigger garden (3 3.4 acres) and even his own horse and cart to deliever his vegetables to grocery stores. At seventeen years old now Henry was making an income of 2, 400$, very good for back than.


He than attended Business College where he graduateded starting employment at his father Brick company, eventually becoming a partner at the firm. All of this while still growing his garden and continuing busniess in that department.


Than using all the money he made from his fathers business and from his delievering of Vegetables he decided to invest it in his own company. Henry and his brother and cousin. Their frist product was Ketchup, and took off quick.


Henry J. Heinz dies on May 14 1919, in his home state of Pennsylvania at the age of 74. He died with 20 food processing plants. Heinz was the grandfather of H. J. Heinz II and great-grandfather of U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania in the United States.



Wednesday, March 25, 2009



For my 3rd post ive decided to do it on the actually maker of ketchup, the big cheese.


In my previous posts i have talked about Ketchup and whats inside and I told you when it was invented, now I'm gunna tell you who invented it and more about their background and how they come across making it.


Now, ketchup was one of tose products that everyone said they invented by them-selves but each inventor came from a different culture and dofferent parts of the world so their weer different ingredients and different names for each-one. The original ketchup was called Ki-tsiap by the Chinese. It was a tangy sauce of pickled fish, shellfish, and spices. In the 1700's though English sailors came across this sauce in Mayala and brought it back to England, the only thing was they couldn't make more because they didn't have all the ingredients compared to in China.


England made Ketchup though, just not as good and with different flavors like walnut, anchovy, lemon, and tomatoes! As their stolen product became more popular so were cook books at the time, and in 1792 a booked called " The New Art of Cookery" came out staring the english's version of Tomatoe Catsup was aired.


Then in 1876 a guy named Henry J. Heinz began mass-producing of "Catsup", became popular and than was one of the hottest ingredients to put in your fridge/ shelf to date, called Heinz Ketchup.



Monday, March 23, 2009


Visual look of Ketchup:

Ketchup over the years has been changing their bottles and their labels over and over. The first bottle of Ketchup was published in 1727. Over the years though they have made the ketchup taste better and easier to use, from the original glass bottle to the plastic squeeze bottle they have been moving forward.

Heinz (worlds leader in most ketchup sold) made a "weird" and "funky" product that put ketchup user in a maze. Coloured Ketchup was their latest invention and it definatley suprised others. Funky colours like purple green orange are some examples of what i am talking about, but at the same time they taste exactly the same. The funny thing with that is kids and adults were still buting this ketchup. I don't know if they wanted to be different? Or just wanted to act brave and eat it? I have no clue, but when i first tried it I was scared but it turned out to be really yummy. So, in my books I would say that it was a success they managed to grab kids attention with the look of the bottle and the ketchup it's- self, and kept the yummy as well.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009



For my first post I've decided that im going to do mine on Ketchup and what is inside ketchup.



Ketchup is a condiment that is made out of Tomatoes most of the time. The prime ingredients that make Ketchup taste so good are- tomato concentrate, spirit vinegar, milk, corn syrup, sugar, salt, spice, celery and garlic powder. Ketchup first term was "sauce", which was made from Mushrooms, fish brine with herbs and spices but over the years it has got more ingredients and tastes in it and it has exploded as a daily thing you use of food.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

first post

Hi this is my first post and im just making sure that this really does work, and I am doing my posts on Ketchup. for example who the creator was, when it was invented and how he came across inventing this ingredient. So, basically the 5 W's just in posts.