I also recommend Branston Baked Beans as an alternative to Heinz. Cheaper and better imo
Edit: British brand, Japanese owned
I concur! Branston beans have in my opinion a thicker consistency with a deeper flavour and creamier mouth feel. After being converted to Branston, Heinz tastes like metallic orange water with overly firm beans.
Curry ketptchup is a gift sent from the gods.
I’ve tried it once and it was disgustingly sweet. I’m unsure if the praise is just a meme or it’s another entry on the long list of typical german food I don’t like despite living there.
Like all ketchup, some are too sweet, some are more tart. Find the ketchup you like, and add curry powder to it.
Out of all the curry ketchups you can get in Germany, Hela has the highest sugar content (source: me comparing the labels in the supermarket)
I love it 🍬
Hela ketchup is just really fucking sweet for some reason. It is also one of the worse Gewürzketchups I had, the supermarket brands usually are way less sweet and have an actual difference in the flavour of their different products.
Curry ketchup blew my mind the first time I tried it. Need to figure out where I can buy it from in the UK.
You can make it with curry powder, it’s not so hard
Get your hands on some jalapeño puree ketchup, it’s amazing.
How can you eat that stuff? It’s supposed to be ketchup, not curry. And currywurst is also an abomination. Nürnbergers or polish white sausages!
Edit: typo
You don’t like something, we get it. Can I enjoy something delicious in peace?
Feel free, I don’t hold you accountable to my opinion! I’m 100% sure that there are things in my cuisine that you’d find absolutely disgusting. Different people, different tastes.
But seriously: what is it good on?
It’s a good. 1:1 replacement for ketchup in all cases you’d use ketchup, IMO
Wait until they hear about mayochup
Basically cocktail sauce?
You guys buy branded ketchup? Its Aldis store brand or nothing for me.
Aren’t you contradicting yourself if you only buy aldis store brand?
No.
It’s a bit of a long drive to Aldis for some of us, I don’t know which country the closest one is in. Most people probably just buy what they grew up on. For me that’s Felix so I guess you could say it’s European, but Orkla is publicly traded so it sorta loses all meaning.
I only buy fancy shit now and just eat less of it, like stokes and a couple of local ones.
All that own brand stuff is just tomato juice concentrate with a load of thickening agents plus sugar and crap to make it taste like something. And Heinz was always overly sweet crap anyway.
ketchup? never heard of her
I buy Hela ketchup at Aldi, so I guess it’s their store brand? Definitely cheap.
Til heinz is american
The Heinz who started the company was the son of German immigrant parents, hence the surname.
Brand ownership can get super weird.
Heinz is an American company. Daddies, which is a very British brand, is now owned by Heinz too, so is also American.
On the other hand Helmann’s (of both mayo and ketchup providence) is an American brand which is now owned by Unilever…so technically British.
Tell me about it! I spent waaaay too much time in the store today, looking up the incestuous corporate relationships.
Also, TIL I learned that I need reading glasses :(
Fucking tiny print
Fun fact time! Heinz originated in Pittsburgh and used to have a massive factory built in the 1910’s, and when it shut down they eventually renovated it into apartments. The buildings are now all named after what they once produced there - Bean Building, Meat Building, Cereal Building, Reservoir Building, and Shipping Building.
It’s rumored that the Meat Building has a vibrant gay community.
Real life lore
lol it sounds so not American
do Americans even know how to pronounce it properly?
Yes, they pronounce it correctly. Even if it was somehow a challenge, they have been hearing it in commercials since early childhood.
whoa ok I’m sorry just wondering
*Hela
Gewürzketchup is pretty different, though. It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of brands that make regular ketchup.
*Hola
*Helau
*Hula
*Hulu is not European.
Olau!
Thanks, fixed!
I will buy European as much as possible but even I have my limits
yes. i cannot cope with not heinz
Y’all should be using Hela regardless of my county’s dumb policies. Heinz is trash in comparison.
I absolutely love Hela but I honestly don’t see how anyone could think it could be a substitute for tomato ketchup. The two aren’t even remotely the same thing, except maybe in consistency.
The only thing my fries need is kewpie mayo 😋
You can make mayonnaise yourself within a few minutes. Its just eggyolk and oil. Tastes way better than anything store bought.
Aussie “ketchup” (tomatey sauce) is more rich and less firetruck red sickly sweet.
Rosella for those interested! https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/61679 (on a meat pie)
Also love Paladin from Portugal. They make a bunch of different condiments and sauces.
I’m a fan of Zeisner ketchup, but usually buy store brand (Boni) because my kids seem to drink it instead of dosing.
I don’t always want Gewürz in my Ketchup tho.
But there are enough alternatives to be fair.
Does it taste similar to American ketchup, or is it sweeter like the German ketchup I remember as a kid?
Hela has 3-4 different variants of “regular” non-curry ketchup with varying degrees of sweetness.
You just gotta find the one you like.
Pudliszki or death.
Flying Goose Red Hot Chili Sauce is the only thing you need. Ketchup is for the weak.
Is that BBQ flavored ketchup? God, I’m so down for that.
Isn’t BBQ sauce already smoke-flavored ketchup (in most cases)?
Ketchup is the main component in what most people think of as BBQ sauce. There are others that are regional within the US that are vinegar-based and mustard-based (and possibly another I’m forgetting).
