Posted on 07/06/2013 9:13:05 AM PDT by rickmichaels
It could alleviate so many face-palms this weekend: a non-stick ketchup bottle conjured by gastro-nerds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may hit supermarket shelves – for other condiments – as early as next year.
After taking home third place with a public vote at the Design Museum’s annual competition this week, the non-stick bottle coating – termed “LiquiGlide,” unfortunately – is once again on the table.
Engineers at MIT invented the non-stick coating “to help the sauce slide out,” writes The Daily Mail’s Nick McDermott: “Angrily thwacking the ketchup bottle to coax out the stubborn sauce could soon be a distant memory.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Interesting. Practical physics.
Same here. Though I long preferred Heinz ketchup, I no longer purchase it. After many taste-tests, I found that both Wal-Mart and Family Dollar Store house-brand ketchups are excellent alternatives to Heinz ketchup. Taste and quality of both match the level of Heinz ketchup. And the price of each is significantly lower than Heinz's
No more Heinz in this household!
I get mine at Aldi’s....half the price.
Years ago there was a Saturday Evening Post cover showing a couple of teenagers in a 1950s hamburger joint. She is sitting across the booth from him, wearing a white cashmere sweater. He his holding a ketchup bottle upside down, and obviously has just whacked the bottom of it. There is a trail of ketchup across the booth and up the front of her sweater. There is a look of horror on his face.
I've often wondered what happened next.
more chemicals. No thanks, I’ll just shake mine out.
Whataburger ketchup, spicy ketchup, and mustard are now sold in HEB grocery stores in Texas. Yum!
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