[jambutty]

Originally Posted by pipinfort

Old school Ketchup, i like the sound of that and will look out for it , so does that mean since `the god ole days` they have been watering it down......?

Since the upside down bottles were introduced the ketchup and brown sauce is much runnier and so is the salad cream.

That would seem to imply that it has been ‘watered’ down. And if you can still get them, the sauce in the old style bottles is just as thin. Well it has to be otherwise people would smell a rat.

When the upside down bottles first appeared on the shelves the viscosity of the sauce in the normal bottles was quite thick as it always has been. If anyone recalls, you could take the top off a bottle and hold it upside and wait for ages for the sauce/ketchup/salad cream to drop out. In order to get some movement you had to bang on the bottom of the bottle with the palm of your hand and could, on occasion, get more than you bargained for.

When a bottle was nearly empty we would add a few drops of hot water to thin the sauce down so that it would flow out of the bottle. Or, as I used to do, stand the bottle upside down after use and by the time it was needed again all the sauce had dropped to the bottom, which was actually the top. The sauce was so thick that you could hold the bottle sideways, take off the top confident that it wouldn’t spill out until you turned it fully upside down. Even then it took its time.

The invention of the upside down bottle was a godsend to the makers. They could replace 10 or 15% of the sauce with water and thus make extra profit.