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During my weekly foray in Asda Grimshaw Park I came across HEINZ Special Blend Tomato Sauce. At £1.97 or was it £1.79, for a 330g bottle it is a bit expensive, but oh the taste is to die for.

The bonus is that the sauce is THICK and you practically have to tease it out, just like the old days.

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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......?:rolleyes:

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Heinz ketchup goes upmarket - Telegraph


Here we go..........:D

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I dunno, I live on a "ketchup" continent, but I still prefer HP.

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Hp sause is not the same either... its like they put some kind of oils in them to make them come out easy...

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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.

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You might want to try Branston ketchup jambutty that is absolutely yum...Lovely and thick and you can tell there are plenty of tomatoes used in it... I love it when morrisons do it on bogof then I fill my cupboard :D

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Also if you like baked beans the branston beans are far better than heinz too :)

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Will definately be getting some of that!
I'm fed up of putting tomato sauce on my food and half of it being watery,its horrible!

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Tesco` Organic own brand ketchup is great too..............

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I stopped using Heinze salad cream yonks ago, I switched to Helmans, now that is thick stuff and far better than Heinze

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I’ve tried the Branston baked beans but I wasn’t too impressed.

It’s a question of personal taste I guess.

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Isn’t Helmans a mayonnaise rather than a salad cream?

Not that there is a great deal of difference.

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MMm lol are you revealing a fetish here JB?

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I thought the Branston beans and their spaghetti were awful ......and i`m not fussy...:D

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One sauce you all must try is LEVI ROOTS LOVE APPLE nice and spicy. He was the fella on Dragons Den last year, who got the backing from the dragons.I bought it at asda.

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Ya your right JB but its far better than salad cream, more tastier

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I agree; but just looking at mayo will clog your arteries:eek:

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iv noticed that if you dont shake the squeezy ketchup before use al you get is a puddle of water on your plate folowed by a bit of ketchup

whats their new advertising slogan...

OLD and improved ?

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I cant believe you are all having a discussion about ketchup lol

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Oh come on ema it is a bank holiday weekend:D

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Ketchup is sooooooooooooooooo 1990s!! Piccalilli is the future of food.

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Love it with cheese TM, I also like Branston on Corn Beef Sarnies;)

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ewww. piccallili is nasty i like branston on a cheese butty tho.....hmmmm..... im not taking another trek down to asda cos i cant stop thinking about something lol

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Oh no piccallilli is vile!
Ketchup is definately the tops, apart from all the water that runs out lol!

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In the future all food will be florescent yellow and taste mildly of vomit. I read it in The Times.

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It will be green..........................SOYLENT green
Soylent Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ahhh, but that's fiction Margaret......... plus I'm colour blind too. ;)

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Well that certainly helps TM:D

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mm with food prices as they are - you never know lol

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my favourite sauce at the moment is H.P. SMOKEY BARBACUE ,,IN THE GREEN BOTTLE. its to die for,,,

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The green will be in short supply because it was made out of people. So we will only get the red and yellow and only as a special treat will we get the green.

However the original book “Make Room! Make Room!” written by Harry Harrison in 1966 could well be prophetic the way things have gone since then. We have millions starving, GM crops and the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots. We have walled private housing estates. Policing of the masses is slowly being reduced. But woe betide the criminal if he goes for one of the haves.

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I do like Piccalili.especially the extra chunky variety...mmmm

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Piccalilli is the new rock 'n' roll! :cool:

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Well Jambutty, i tracked some down today in Tesco and i have to say...............it really is very , very good indeed..:)thanx

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Grow enough tomatoes and you can make your own ketchup and sauces .... and the old rotten ones can be used at political meetings and upcoming state funerals ....

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ha you could use my ones for bullets or bombs... lots of very very hard green ones..... I think its time to bin them: nothings happening and they have been on the window sill for over three weeks...:eek:

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I’m happy to know that it meets with your approval.

I know that memory is a funny thing and the good was always seems better in the past and the bad worst but that ketchup tastes just like the ketchup of old as I remember it. I reckon that over the years the quality of Heinz ketchup has deliberately deteriorated until what we get today. Then Heinz goes back to the original recipe and re-launches a superior product, which was the standard product all those years ago, and of course charges much more for it. A sneaky underhand way of gaining extra profit.

The makers of washing powders and detergents have been doing it for years and what is more have been getting away with it.

When they bring out a ‘new improved, whiter than white’ washing detergent/powder it always comes in a different sized package/bottle. This makes it extremely difficult for the shopper to become aware of an actual price increase.

The most recent con is the concentrated liquid. Not only is it in fact dearer but being concentrated people will use more per wash and thus have to buy more often. They do very helpfully supply a measuring cup and people may start off using it but who is to say that the recommended amount is half the recommended amount of the non-concentrated liquid?

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Fried green tomatoes .... mmmm:D