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I have always refrigerated ketchup after opening. Always Heinz. I was raised by a family of Heinz eaters. My grandfather worked for Heinz, and growing up that's all my dad would allow in our house. I don't personally eat ketchup but my husband and sons would kick me to the curb if I tried to bring anything other Heinz into the house. My sons have certain restaurants that they don't like to eat at because they say that the Heinz bottles on the tables are refilled with some generic cheap stuff. When they were little they hated going to my SIL's because she always had Hunt's or whatever was on sale.
Poor Hunt's ... they do seem "lesser than" in my head too. I don't think I could tell the difference in a blind taste test, but my brain says that Heinz is the best brand, "real" ketchup.
Edited: Yet I don't buy Heinz. I buy Meijer's all-natural ketchup. No HCFS.
Last edited by JustJulia; 09-14-2010 at 08:39 AM..
Ketchup is the healthiest condiment there is. Cooked tomatoes help prevent both heart disease and cancer. Now we know that Hunt's is healthier than Heinz. And Hunt's is the best tasting tomato ketchup ever made.
This ^ is true! Ketchup is very healthful!
IMO, both ketchup and mustard taste much better at room temperature. No need to refrigerate 'em unless the label specifically tells you to. Most brands don't require refrigeration. Same with stuff like peanut butter and shortening. I have never, ever refrigerated these, and have never had something go rancid in my pantry, even after many months of storage. (I live alone, so it takes me a long time to go through the types of products we're talking about here - a year or more for a large bottle of ketchup or mustard; several months for a jar of peanut butter.)
IMO, both ketchup and mustard taste much better at room temperature. No need to refrigerate 'em unless the label specifically tells you to. Most brands don't require refrigeration. Same with stuff like peanut butter and shortening. I have never, ever refrigerated these, and have never had something go rancid in my pantry, even after many months of storage. (I live alone, so it takes me a long time to go through the types of products we're talking about here - a year or more for a large bottle of ketchup or mustard; several months for a jar of peanut butter.)
Condiments I always refrigerate but I don't refrigerate refrigerate things like peanut butter or shortening either. I never really crossed my mind to. Mom never did, so I never did. I have had shortening go rancid once, but it was because it had been in my pantry for probably 2 years. I used to have a friend who refrigerated everything, even boxes of cereal. I found that strange.
Condiments I always refrigerate but I don't refrigerate refrigerate things like peanut butter or shortening either. I never really crossed my mind to.
Same here. Although, I did work at a restaurant in college and we just left the ketchup bottles on the table. This place has the plastic bottles with the sprout on top. We refilled those from big Heinz bottles.
I was always a whatever's-on-sale type with ketchup until I met DH. His ex was from Pittsburgh, so he insisted on Heinz. Now I do think of Hunt's as the less ketchup. Poor thing. LOL
I grew up a couple of miles from where they made Hunt's ketchup and I used to follow the trucks carrying the tomatoes from the field to that factory. Those tomatoes could bounce off the back of the truck, hit the road, get run over by a car and they still would not bust. They would just roll off to the side of the road where they didn't even decompose. (OK. I'm exagerating. A little.)
I'm convinced that natural law did not apply to those tomatoes. Or to the ketchup they eventually became. So I keep it on the shelf.
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