Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Ketchup...if that's even your real name?



Prepare yourself...I am about to blog about another blog. When I was writing about the influence of color on marketing I discussed Heinz Ketchup changing their product to green (not environmentally, literally). It was then that I decided that Ketchup is the weirdest word in the english language. 

Dear...tomato sauce mixed with vinegar and other spices in a glass or plastic bottle,
     Why are you so difficult? You have 3 different and yet correct ways to spellings of your name. Ketchup, Catsup or Catchup. But they are all pronounced the same! WHY? Do you think that you are so nice you were named thrice? You may be great on fries but you are not nearly as versatile as ranch or peanut butter. Are your three names aliases? Is that it? Are the other names widely known because you used them as pen names when you wrote your first novels because you were afraid they wouldn't be good enough? Answer me. I guarantee I am going to lose sleep over this question. 

Inquisitvely, 
A red tomato sauce mixed with vinegar and other spices in a glass or plastic bottle activist


p.s. Sometimes you are really hard to get out of glass bottles. You should tell more people that they can merely tap the 75 with their knuckle and you will happily pour onto their french fries. Or is that another secret you want to keep all to yourself?

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