• B-TR3E@feddit.org
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    Flying Goose Red Hot Chili Sauce is the only thing you need. Ketchup is for the weak.

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    I also recommend Branston Baked Beans as an alternative to Heinz. Cheaper and better imo

    Edit: British brand, Japanese owned

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      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.

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      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

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      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.

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        Like all ketchup, some are too sweet, some are more tart. Find the ketchup you like, and add curry powder to it.

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        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 🍬

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        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.

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      Curry ketchup blew my mind the first time I tried it. Need to figure out where I can buy it from in the UK.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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

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      The Heinz who started the company was the son of German immigrant parents, hence the surname.

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      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.

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    *Hela

    Gewürzketchup is pretty different, though. It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of brands that make regular ketchup.

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    I’m a fan of Zeisner ketchup, but usually buy store brand (Boni) because my kids seem to drink it instead of dosing.

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      You can make mayonnaise yourself within a few minutes. Its just eggyolk and oil. Tastes way better than anything store bought.