Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!
I have to say some of those ice cream flavors are in questionable taste, but the Kerry Berry does look funny…
C’mon, sure. It’s her money now, and John Kerry ain’t getting all of it.
I didn’t think you’d take me so literally, in a humorous thread.
Oh, and for those who’ve never been, the “Dirty O” is the Original Hot Dog Shop, in Pittsburgh. Great hot dogs, but the real attraction is the fries and beer. This joint serves over 30,000 pounds of French fries a week.
I’m certainly no Kerry fan (though to be fair, not a Bush fan either).
However, I live in the Pittsburgh area and I could not imagine giving up Heinz! I’ve probably never used another ketchup than Heinz (remember one time Mom bought Hunt’s because it was on sale…needless to say, that little experiment was never repeated again), and by god there’s no way I’m going to start right now, regardless of where the money is going!!!
Just remember … according to Republicans, Heinz Ketchup, like any other, is a VEGETABLE.
In this entire thread, no one has mentioned that both Heinz and Hunt’s suck? Since the introduction of squeeze bottles, it is watery pap fit only for babies. Does no one else remember the days of manly ketchup? Ketchup that stood up and walked across your french fries? Ketchup that could be mistaken for John Wayne? Ketchup commercials that emphasized how long it took to come out of the bottle? Pshah! A pox on all your ketchups!
I wonder what kind of ketchup Ralph Nader uses.
So… does this ketchup count as a full serving of vegetables in a school lunch?
Public schools in the US can’t afford brand-name ketchup. W ketchup is just a front for Republicans to cash in on this aspect of underfunding education.
Frankly, I think every administration should have product tie-ins. Since most people think more carefully about their grocery shopping than about voting (and why shouldn’t they? You may think the current administration is vile, but you don’t have to put Dick Cheney in your mouth), we could do away with a lot of polling. Billy Beer tanked, and so did Carter’s presidency. We could just use the marketing data for various products aimed at different demographics to tell how people feel about the president and his policies.
“We’ve crunched the sales figures, Mr. President, and here’s how it breaks down. Sales of Bush-so-Fresh are flat, indicating a continuing disconnect with women of voting or near-voting age. On the other hand, the Cheney GFY is still the top-selling SUV, indicating approval of your energy and environmental policies among loyal republicans. Toy stores are somewhat enthusiastic about the Sky Laser Missile Fun package, but they say distribution will have to wait until we can get the cost below a billion per unit. Also, perversely, they’re insisting that it actually work. It’s in toilet tissue, however, that we’re really kicking–uh, you know. Both brands are doing well, with EMission Accomplished popular across the board and The Bill of Wipes selling strong among Justice Department employees.”
For presidents who liken themselves to CEOs, this method of conveying the will of the people might actually penetrate. Just a thought.
Try to make a joke, and reality beats you to it. I now wish I hadn’t used the word “penetrate” in that last sentence.
Wait a minute… when did The O get Dirty?
Okay, okay, scratch that question. It wasn’t any too clean back in my day. But when did people start calling it Dirty?
As for that site… please tell me it’s a joke. It’s just too pathetic that someone would go through all the work of introducing a new product just because the widow of a member of the family that founded the factory that makes another brand of ketchup, is now married to the guy who’s running for president of That Other Party. Note that the Heinz family no longer owns much of the stock, and most of the family money is invested elsewhere. Teresa Heinz Kerry is going to have about the same amount of money to her name whether you buy ketchup or not. And the insinuation that Heinz has been sending jobs overseas… that’s as low as it is inaccurate. They sell products in many countries, so they have factories in many countries; their products are generally made near where they will be sold. Did anyone really think every bottle of Heinz ketchup sold in the entire world was still made in Pittsburgh? (None is, by the way.)
One of the things I admired about the late Senator Heinz was that although there was no mistaking he was a Republican, he was willing to go against the party line when he believed it was necessary. I wonder what he’d make of this.
Well, some folks call it the “Dirty O”, although the more common nickname is still the “O”.
I don’t think this is a new product line. More likely it’s the same generic ketchup used for store brands. This guy just contracted with them to slap a novelty label on it.
That, of course, would make it lousy ketchup, but a decent conversation piece.
No, mostly it’s vinegar (or cheese curds and gravy - Mmmmmm, poutine).
I’m not from Pittsburgh, but I wouldn’t use any ketchup other than Heinz anyway.
It’s a good thing they’re tackling the political rhetoric head-on. Why, I would have been lost with no counter-point to the veritable sea of left-wing ice cream-related criticism of conservatives.
And while people have targeted quite nicely the point that Mr. Heinz’s heiress has title to the money he left her, and that her husband’s political aspirations are not in the most part if at all funded by her inheritance, I do take quite a bit of umbrage at the idea that no “good and decent man, and a great American” might support the campaign of a Democrat financially. Because God knows that the Founding Fathers intended that this country be perpetually run by Republicans, and the will of the people have nothing to do with it – witness Election 2000 as evidence!
Polycarp, get over it. This is not a serious political thread. It’s a thread about ketchup, for crying out loud.
I was having a bit of fun.
Besides, ask anyone who knew John Heinz, even casually, and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who’ll challenge my description of him. He had many friends on the other side of the aisle, too, you know.
The country lost a good and decent man when he died in that plane crash.
From the website
Unlike the man it was named after!
But do you get W Ketchup at A&W? 
I found this part amusing:
Yet no mention of the fact that Reagan wanted to make ketchup a vegetable in school lunches! (IIRC, Heinz himself though Reagan was nuts for that).
That being said, I’m going to send in a quote. I’ve lived in Pittsburgh all my life, I did my internship at the John Heinz Regional History Center, and to try and suggest I use another brand of ketchup is just plain WRONG.
They must be from Cleveland.