Tomato Ketchup As It Use To Be.

[jambutty]

During my weekly foray in Asda Grimshaw Park I came across HEINZ Special Blend Tomato Sauce. At £1.97 or was it £1.79, for a 330g bottle it is a bit expensive, but oh the taste is to die for.

The bonus is that the sauce is THICK and you practically have to tease it out, just like the old days.

[pipinfort]

Old school Ketchup, i like the sound of that and will look out for it , so does that mean since `the god ole days` they have been watering it down......?

[pipinfort]

Heinz ketchup goes upmarket - Telegraph


Here we go..........

[Eric]

I dunno, I live on a "ketchup" continent, but I still prefer HP.

[magpie]

Hp sause is not the same either... its like they put some kind of oils in them to make them come out easy...

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by pipinfort

Old school Ketchup, i like the sound of that and will look out for it , so does that mean since `the god ole days` they have been watering it down......?

Since the upside down bottles were introduced the ketchup and brown sauce is much runnier and so is the salad cream.

That would seem to imply that it has been ‘watered’ down. And if you can still get them, the sauce in the old style bottles is just as thin. Well it has to be otherwise people would smell a rat.

When the upside down bottles first appeared on the shelves the viscosity of the sauce in the normal bottles was quite thick as it always has been. If anyone recalls, you could take the top off a bottle and hold it upside and wait for ages for the sauce/ketchup/salad cream to drop out. In order to get some movement you had to bang on the bottom of the bottle with the palm of your hand and could, on occasion, get more than you bargained for.

When a bottle was nearly empty we would add a few drops of hot water to thin the sauce down so that it would flow out of the bottle. Or, as I used to do, stand the bottle upside down after use and by the time it was needed again all the sauce had dropped to the bottom, which was actually the top. The sauce was so thick that you could hold the bottle sideways, take off the top confident that it wouldn’t spill out until you turned it fully upside down. Even then it took its time.

The invention of the upside down bottle was a godsend to the makers. They could replace 10 or 15% of the sauce with water and thus make extra profit.

[harwood red]

You might want to try Branston ketchup jambutty that is absolutely yum...Lovely and thick and you can tell there are plenty of tomatoes used in it... I love it when morrisons do it on bogof then I fill my cupboard

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by harwood red

You might want to try Branston ketchup jambutty that is absolutely yum...Lovely and thick and you can tell there are plenty of tomatoes used in it... I love it when morrisons do it on bogof then I fill my cupboard

I’ll keep that in mind for next Friday, thanks.

[harwood red]

Originally Posted by jambutty

I’ll keep that in mind for next Friday, thanks.

Also if you like baked beans the branston beans are far better than heinz too

[Loz]

Will definately be getting some of that!
I'm fed up of putting tomato sauce on my food and half of it being watery,its horrible!

[pipinfort]

Tesco` Organic own brand ketchup is great too..............

[jaysay]

I stopped using Heinze salad cream yonks ago, I switched to Helmans, now that is thick stuff and far better than Heinze

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by harwood red

Also if you like baked beans the branston beans are far better than heinz too

I’ve tried the Branston baked beans but I wasn’t too impressed.

It’s a question of personal taste I guess.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I stopped using Heinze salad cream yonks ago, I switched to Helmans, now that is thick stuff and far better than Heinze

Isn’t Helmans a mayonnaise rather than a salad cream?

Not that there is a great deal of difference.

[keetah992000]

Originally Posted by jambutty

The bonus is that the sauce is THICK and you practically have to tease it out, just like the old days.

MMm lol are you revealing a fetish here JB?