On our trip to Canada, I got a burger and fries. Burger was fine, but the fries were OMG great! It wasn’t the french fries themselves, but the Heinz ketchup that made the diff. It was…different, somehow. Light years ahead of what I’ve been using in the states.
I looked on the label, and noted the ingredients. Didn’t mean a lot to me, but when we crossed back into the USA, I looked at the Heinz labels there.
Ah, a difference! The Canadian Heinz listed “liquid sugar” as one of the main ingredients. But the USA version had, basically, “corn syrup.”
So, AHA! There was a diff in the ingredients and I was not psycho.
So now, I am trying to find a way to get some of this ambrosia. Anyone know of a site where I can order it over the Internet? Or is it much more complicated, like I would need some kind of importer’s license?
Any thoughts are appreciated, because I NEED MORE OF THIS.
I blame squanto. Nothing personal but I trace back the current ag economy and subsidies that make corn syrup so cheap back to him. If he would have just let the pilgrims starve you might be able to get a decent bottle of soda in this country. When I was in Germany last year they stocked the mini bar every day with two bottles of Coke that tasted like I remember. Cane sugar coke is sold in Mexico and I can find it Mexican grocery stores here so I’ll keep an eye out for ketchup.
I hope that this is reasonably close to the OP and Padeye’s response, but when I order a Coke at McDonald’s, the taste is distinctly better than what comes out of a bottle or can - is this also a case of a different sweetener for the restaurant blend syrup than for what is sold at the grocery? If that’s the case, I wonder if going to a Mexican grocery, as suggested, would do the trick. We shop at Asian markets, but not to buy pop, so I’ve not tried the experiment there; maybe I should. Thanks.
Heinz Organic Ketchup, produced at Heinz’s Leamington, Canada facility, is made with sugar, not corn syrup. It’s available on-line from several retailers, including Amazon. The customer review agrees with you. But have you tried your nearest natural foods grocery store?
No, I haven’t. I don’t think we have any close to my location. But, I never even considered this possibility, frankly. I will check the Amazon link, though, and thanks. Poysyn, thanks for your kind offer. I won’t bother you except as a last resort, though.
Incidentally, I, too, have heard about Coke from Mexico being better than Coke from the states; now I have an idea why that might be! Cool.
The ordinary Heinz ketchup sold in Canadian supermarkets is made in the same place but it’s not labelled “Organic.” Maybe that’s a different product again.
I would expect it to be a different product. To be labelled “organic” generally requires that the ag product be produced sans pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and for a farm to be certified as “organic” is a very significant proceeding. No one who isn’t after the niche market of organically certified foods is going to do it. And, since Heinz Leamington buys tomatos in industrial quantities from every farm in the vicinity (I have family thereabouts), I think we can safely conclude that the bulk of their product isn’t “organic”.
:o Well, maybe we do! John Sims Parkway is the main road thru town, but I never noticed this establishment. I’ll check it out weekend after next when I go home.
Thanks! Please believe me, I did and have been doing, Google searches on this for a while now. And, I think I have gotten hits on this establishment, but obviously did not scroll down far enough or just missed the Heinz.
Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to do what I should have been more focused on doing!
Umm, sorry, Walloon, I am pretty sure they are no longer there. Not sure, you understand, and I will check, but I called a friend who should know, and he does seem to remember them but says they have been gone for several years.
I will verify this in person, though, and thanx again!
Visit the Cedar Point coaster park in Sandusky, Ohio. Purchase a hot dog on a bun. Hop on the MV Jiiman ferry to Leamington, and be sure to quaff a litre or two of fine Pelee Island wine at the mid-passage stop. When you arrive suitable fortified in Leamington, stagger up to the door of the Heinz ketchup processing plant, knock loudly, and ask for some ketchup for your hotdog.
Enjoy eating your Heinz Ketchup coated hot dog as you return on the ferry to our southern colony, and be sure to also enjoy some more fine wine with it as you stop off again at Pelee Island.
We di! We did! We took the tour of the Pelee Winery, got some souvenir glasses there! Stayed at a B & B in Windsor. We actually went into a grocery store there, where, if I’d been something less than brain-dead, I have bought a dozen or so platic bottles of the wonderful Heinz. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And while I’m being stupid, how on earth did you know we were in Pelee wine country? Is ESP a necessary qualification for registering here? If so, somebody slipped up on the job by letting me in.
P.S. We also went to the…uh, what do you call it park? The southernmost tip of Canada. Dipped our feets (sp) in the water there.
What a neat country. What wonderful people…and their house dogs. I prob’ly need to stop now, you’re gonna think I’m some kind of a Canada-whore.
I will check them out, and thanx again. I only want to point out the first one in your list, “Staff of Life on 123 Partin Drive.”
Just as a FYI, I grew at 133 N. Partin Drive! wow. what a blast from my past. This address would be very close to where the parents of the choreographer ex-husband of J. Lo (that *****) had a food-service operation. When I get around to it, I’m gonna pit that #####. Sorry.
