If you know anything about me, it’s that I love French Fries*. Shoestring? They’re okay. Skinny fries are good. Crinkled? Yes please! Waffle fries. Love ’em; they’re like a meal all on their own. Steak Fries. Oooooohhhh steak fries.
Salt is mandatory, but ketchup (what the heck is catsup anyway?) is usually a nice addition. Especially bacon ketchup, but I suppose that’s a whole blog post on it’s own. Now ketchup packets were a wonderful invention, making it easier to travel, and was probably born of the fast food craze (hooray drive through!) but I’ve done zero research on that so I wouldn’t go repeating it as fact at your next ketchup party (as crazy as the world is, I’m fairly certain that’s a thing somewhere). But the packet hasn’t evolved much over the years until fairly recently.
This is the next evolution of the ketchup packet, and it’s genius. Sometimes I don’t want to spray ketchup all over the place. Sometimes I just want to dip my fries in the container, like chicken nuggets into a bbq sauce container. It’s so simple, yet so elegant. If you want to dip, you can dip. If you want to squeeze your dead tomatoes all over your dead potatoes, you can do that too! Clearly I have fries on the brain. Obviously you could use this to squeeze ketchup onto a sandwich or something besides fries if you wanted to do so (even on your spaghetti, Dad). It’s just amazing. Now I don’t know if Heinz has some kind of patent on this or they buy them from a company with a patent, but I do know this: It should be shared with the world. So simple, yet so much joy.
I suppose everything has its downside. It looks like there’s more material, so more for the landfill, which means it’s probably terrible for the environment. But it’s all about perspective, right? The environment will absolutely try to kill you if given half a chance. It doesn’t seem SO bad when we reframe it as self-defense. Of course, if we kill the environment we won’t have anyplace to live, so that’s bad too. Oof, I don’t think I can solve this puzzle in a ketchup blog.
This was supposed to be another short blog. Literally just a picture of the ketchup thing and “These are great. Go try ’em.” Ah well.
Anyway, sound off in the comments if you know of any other genius inventions that are this simple and awesome.
As always, thanks for reading, and you’re welcome!
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Humble Dave
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