Evidently their lower end poles have plastic flicklocks and the more expensive ones have metal.
That’s the kind of thing someone says when they have no idea how to make tea.
This is what I came here to post…
…but then I saw this:
Oh, Lordy, no! I used to be a Heinz 57 acolyte as well, until I moved west and got a taste of Portland Ketchup. I never realized until then what ketchup was supposed to taste like. Then I read the ingredients:
Heinz: TOMATO CONCENTRATE FROM RED RIPE TOMATOES, DISTILLED VINEGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SALT, SPICE, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORING
Portland Ketchup: Organic Tomato Puree, Organic White Vinegar, Organic Cane Sugar, Sea Salt, Organic Onion, Organic Allspice, Organic Clove
…and I knew. No corn syrup, no unspecified spice or “natural flavoring”. Just real, identifiable, organic ingredients. It’s what ketchup tastes like when it’s fresh.
Yes! Ginger beer that taste like ginger, not ginger flavored, carbonated sugar water. My go-to ginger beer is Bottoms Up! from The Ginger People. I’ll have to try Goya; it gets great reviews!
Actually, they’re made by Komperdell.
Heinz 57 isn’t ketchup. 
Bolding mine.
Their build quality is tops, to be sure, but I would go with a Fender Telecaster before any PRSi. The design, the first commercially popular mass-produced solidbody “Spanish” guitar (vs Hawaiian lap steels) can play any style excellently and a well set-up one is a great tool in terms of ruggedness and reliability and revealing more about your playing than most others guitars.
And if you’re Keith Richards and need to take out a dude rushing the stage, then get right back to playing, the Tele is your weapon of choice ;).
For Acoustics, Martin’s top lines are pricey as hell, but their Authentic line are the real deal and will hold their value.
Organic?
Bleeeeech! No thanks, I’ll stick with chemicals. Yummy, delicious chemicals.
Seriously . . . Organic vinegar?
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Vinegar is a liquid consisting of about 5–20% acetic acid (CH3COOH), water, and other trace chemicals, which may include flavorings. The acetic acid is produced by the fermentation of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria.
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Thomas’ English Muffins?
This is the problem with being overseas, so much of this is unavailable. However
Pffff. 
Simply the best.
J-B Weld epoxy. That stuff really is like shapeable steel in a tube(or two tubes), much better than other epoxys iIve tried.
Beats artificial allspice and cloves!
I’ll definitely go along with all the love for Boar’s Head deli products, especially the Sweet Slice ham.
Vernor’s Ginger Soda puts Canada Dry or any other to shame, it’s the prefect combo of sweet and biting.
My contribution is Weber brand grills. Definitely a bit pricier than Charbroil or most other brands you’ll find at a retailer, but so much more worth it in terms of quality. I’ve had my Weber kettle for close to 10 years, and my Weber gas grill (Spirit I think) for 5, and both are still in great shape.
People say they prefer Heinz, but just about every major blind taste test puts Hunts in first place.
As for ginger beer, nothing matches AJ Stephans. IF you can find it, that is.
Ah, thanks for the correction. It’s possible that they may have shifted manufacturers over the years.
I’d be curious to see where those taste tests are.
I did a search on “Heinz Hunt’s Taste Test.” The first hit was a blind taste test of ten brands, two of them Heinz (regular and organic.) Heinz finished first and second.
I clicked on another link; the winner was Heinz, (though they advised that Del Monte is really cheap and close enough to maybe save a couple of bucks.)
I clicked another and it chose one I’d never heard of - Whole Foods 365 Organic Tomato Ketchup - but selected Hunt’s as WORST ketchup.
This is Truth.
Sadly, I cannot get it in my area. I even spoke with the good Mr. Stephans himself on the issue; we tried to find a local distributor to supply my area, but no such luck.
However, there are many other nearly as good ginger beers out there, fortunately.
I’ll second on Weber. My kettle (Performer) is six years old and perfect, and my gas Genesis is 11 years old, and I can expect at least another 11 out of it, I think.
Well, it does have a carbon atom…
Portland ketchup is really good, but even better is its companion Portland mustard. I can eat it by the spoonful.
Danner boots.
Gibson guitars.
Taylor guitars.
Sonos wireless home entertainment products.
Kitchenaid mixers.
I am the exception that proves the rule! I wore mine out before I lost it, but boy did it take a lot to accomplish that.
I bought a Tinker in Germany in 1991 and hung it on my keychain. It wasn’t too many years before the red plastic sides loosened and came off. I was quite happy with my “naked” Victorinox for a long time thereafter. Every few years I had to hose down the joints with WD-40 to get the grit out and get the blades working right again, but that is really just basic maintenance. Over the years, though, the blades got more and more “stuck” until only the main one really worked. A couple of years ago, the little eyelet that holds the ring that attached to my keychain finally gave way.
Now I have a thoroughly worn-out Victorinox Swiss army knife that sits in my drawer. I don’t want it replaced. It’s a wonderful souvenir of all the great times I had while carrying it.*
(I got another one for normal use long ago, of course)
- One funny memory is from one of the big NYC Dopefests back in the day. Someone was wearing a tight long-sleeved pleather shirt and was getting really hot. She asked if anyone had a knife. I offered mine, and she turned it right into a short-sleeve pleather shirt. Heh. Those fests were a trip.