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…