Food Theory: We Are RUNNING OUT of Ketchup! (McDonalds)

Did you know we are running out of ketchup? Well, ketchup packets. You see the past year has really changed the face of the restaurant industry and one of the main ways is portable condiments. Except there is a little more nuance to this situation left out of that. The truth is Heinz, the king of ketchup, is running out of it's famous condiment. What does this mean for the future? Well, I have a theory...

 
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[lycieae]

As an ex Taco Bell employee, we "supposed to give 1 sauce packet per item", but the stores order like 50 pounds of each sauce and some people need more than 1 packet sooo.. Enjoy having a quarter pound of sauce

[klopse]

"Ketchup packet demand is up 300%"

The drawer that my mom has put all of her sauce packets in is finally going to be opened.

[Exlaax]

As an ex dairy queen employee I can say the entire staffs jobs were threatened by giving more than two dip and squeeze ketchups "if they want more after that give them regular packets" I had to tell someone that once in the drive thru

[katastrophic]

I went to Wendy's a couple weeks ago and instead of giving me packets they gave me a little cup with a lid filled with ketchup, so much better than packets imo.

[samloyd]

As a former taco bell employee, we are told to just straight up toss giant handfuls of sauce so customers never complain about not having enough

[cartoonmaster]

MatPat: "Okay, admittedly I'm being a bit overdramatic about the whole 'demise' thing."

Your major was musical theatre, we aren't gonna judge you.

[saroneaimah]

I’ve been hoarding ketchup packets for years. This packet shortage will be the first thing I’ve ever been prepared for in my life.

[danielgonzalez]

I'm surprised that fast food places don't package their own condiment packs, especially since they are always so weird about bbq sauce

[BrownSofaGamer]

As a Taco Bell worker, the sauce packet part is 100% accurate we don’t care how many sauces you want, we’ll give handfuls of sauce to people who order one taco if they ask. Even if people just ask for one we usually give a few.

[MeggieMags]

Canadian here. We turned out back on heniz several years ago because they left a bunch of our tomato farmers high and dry after not buying the crop they promised too. We all switched to frenchs because they stepped up and bought those tomatoes.

[Uberwenis]

I'm surprised you didn't do one on the whole chicken wings shortage tbh. After that crazy snowstorm in Texas, 50, 000 chickens died and now lots of stores can't even get wings to sell to restaurants.

[AdemirZX]

I discovered this channel only a few weeks ago, and by watching the episodes in chronological order, it becomes really apparent how the amount of dad jokes have been increasing a lot over time :v

[smugod]

Ok, funny story, my friend has been stealing ketchup packets from the school cafeteria and putting them in his back pack, he has around 100 packets of ketchup in his bag, I have no words.

[haloizkwl]

"We need ketchup packets for take out!"

Heinz: "You got it! Touchless ketchup dispenser!"

[AWildRaito]

"We are running out of ketchup."

The poor college students who have their pockets filled with packets: *Oh no! Anyways.*

[andrazprelec]

A ketcup shortage

Me a mayo fan: oh yeah its all coming together

[kurei]

“But then everything changed cause Heinz wasn’t prepared for...” when the fire nation attacked?

[mnoelis]

The opening gag reminded me of this time in high school. I was car pooling with a few other kids to play practice after school and we stopped at Taco Bell to get drinks and nothing else. After making the order of drinks the drive thru guy asked "would you like hot sauce with that?"

[GuerkHD]

Hey Matt, I have a suggestion for a Food Theorie Episode. In modern cooking there are five basic sauces that are considered as so called mothersauces. Every other sauce there is can be created by altering these five. The mothersauces, as considered today are: Béchamel Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Espagnole Sauce, Velouté Sauce and Hollandaise Sauce. But among those is an imposter. The french author Auguste Escoffier first mentioned this definition in his book "Le guide culinaire", and he described the sauced as stated above with the one little difference, that he did not consider hollandaise a mothersauße, because there is a simpler more basic sauce, that is made the same way (a cold emulsion of egg(water) and oil), and this sauce is … mayonnaise. But because he did not list mayonnaise in the same paragraph as the other mothersauces, and only described his discovery in the introduction sentence above mayonnaise, that got lost in the official English translation, this information got lost and even disappeared from later publications. The cooking Youtuber Alex (He is a frech guy that does food oriented videos) had doubt about the legitimacy of hollandaise and went to the Paris library to requested to read in the original version to proof that. But to this day almost every article on the internet published the wrong mothersauce status of hollandaise, denying mayo his rightful place in the Olymp of sauces. (He did try to contact Wikipedia to "fix" the article and after half a year he managed to secure a side note on the English entry of "Frech Mother Sauces" about mayonnaise be the OG mothersauce.) I highly recommend watching Alex's original video, because this was his discovery and not mine. I just thought it would make for a nice Food Theorie Episode. (Man did I write a lot. I should probably got to sleep now xD)

[notmedicine]

Funny story about Taco Bell sauce packets:
My dad is a regular at Taco Bell. He would always use tons of hot sauce on his food; he practically drank the stuff. The workers knew this, so James, the guy running the drive thru that day, gave us a mound of sauce. It was so much that it filled a gallon ice cream bucket and then some!
It lasted us months!