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Heinz and Hunt’s Are in Engaged in a Ketchup-Fueled Space Race

Heinz and Hunt’s Are in Engaged in a Ketchup-Fueled Space Race

By Jelisa Castrodale | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie When Heinz developed a ketchup to mimic flavors sourced on Mars, Hunt's and Stephen Colbert couldn't help but respond. Forget the billionaires who keep launching their own-brand rockets toward the Kármán line, and ignore any lingering competition between NASA and Russia's Roscosmos: the real 21st Century space race is apparently between, uh, two very terrestrial brands of ketchup. This all started last week, when Heinz revealed its first-ever bottle of Heinz Ketchup Marz Edition, which was made with tomatoes that were grown under carefully controlled soil, temperature, and water conditions that mimicked the environment…
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Heinz Starts Petition to Finally Put Equal Number of Hot Dogs and Buns in Packages

Heinz Starts Petition to Finally Put Equal Number of Hot Dogs and Buns in Packages

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT The condiment company wants "big bun and big wiener companies to finally sell buns and wieners in even packs." It's one of those age-old questions that never seems to get a satisfactory answer: Why is the number of hot dogs in a pack (usually ten) different from the number of hot dog buns in a bag (usually eight)? (The joke even got a whole scene in the 1991 movie Father of the Bride.) The gist of the explanation seems to be that the packaging priorities differ for meat producers and bakers — though that also doesn't explain why they…
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