The USA has traditionally been the land of plenty when it comes to a bounty of free condiment packets, but some places are getting really stingy with them lately. We had a hundred packs, which is about one-eighth of the number I used in the ketchup packet bear a couple of years ago. Here is what a hundred packets of ketchup look like. To me, it was like counting money. Stacks and stacks of money! One by one we cut open the packets and emptied them out into a measuring cup.
We tried to get all the ketchup out of each one but inevitably, there is ketchup left in the corners. I sometimes picture myself stuck on a desert island with only five ketchup packets for food, squeezing and re-squeezing the packets for hours on end. Soon we had 14 ounces of unpacked packet ketchup, also known unpacketchup.
We carefully re-filled the ketchup bottle with our FREE ketchup! We still had the fries and the more than enough ketchup left over, so I had a chance to indulge my immense desire for fresh ketchup. There's no "sell by" date on individual packets — that's listed on the big box the packets come in. And besides, "sell by" and "use by" are very different. Kraft Heinz spokesperson Lynne Galia says you don't have to refrigerate ketchup packets because they are a shelf stable product.
After that, though, the ketchup still probably won't harm you if you eat it because of those long-lasting ingredients like vinegar, tomatoes, sugar, salt and spices; but it probably won't taste like the best ketchup you've ever had, either. To be sure you always have the best-tasting ketchup, use your five senses : sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.
We also suggest using that sixth, equally important sense: common sense. If a ketchup packet looks weird — like it's 8-months pregnant with a baby ketchup packet, the ingredients have separated or it's dark red in color — chuck it. If it smells weird, has a strange texture or tastes off, toss it. The bottom line is if the ketchup seems at all iffy, even if it's only been under the seat of your car for a few weeks, don't risk it, no matter how much you want ketchup on those fries.
As they say, one man's trash, IS another man's treasure. But eventually, even survivalists have to part with their treasures, including those hoards of ketchup packets. Tomatoes were considered evil in Europe in the s when wealthy European aristocrats died after eating them. The tomatoes were not evil, but their acidic properties drew the lead out of the pewter plates they were eaten on, causing death by lead poisoning.
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