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Technically this is fruit leather.

Hear me out:

How I imagine the meeting went:

"ok we're out of ideas... Let's just go with whatever the next thing said here is."

"... ketchup slices?"

"How do you even?... God damn it... Fine. Ketchup slices. Christ forgive me.."

Who comes up with these things?

This is ketchup leather. It's not a new idea; it's been around since fancy burger places with wood walls and exposed edison light bulbs started to be a thing in the early 2010s.

It's just dehydrated ketchup. It makes ketchup more of a topping than a condiment and helps prevent the problem of everything squirting out of the other side of the bun when you take a bite.

How about a slice of tomato instead?

Ultraprocessed mystery meat patty?
Yes!

Ultraprocessed buns with exxxtra sugar?
Yummy!

Ultraprocessed processed-tomatoes, but in a slice instead of sludge?
Ewww, no, there is a line!

When I was a kid, I did some stupid things. And then the other kids punched me.

I stopped doing stupid things.

What I'm saying here, is that kids need to go back to punching the stupid kids. Someone should have punched whoever thought of this.

Honestly I'm intrigued. I don't love the individual plastic wrapping, but it does seem like a good way to get ketchup all the way on the edges without worrying about spilling it everywhere

People who buy this shit are why companies get to kill a certain number of us every year without consequences.

In American schools, this is considered a serving of vegetables.

The first ketchup you could use to roll a fatty like dogg lemme hit that Heinz 57 Blunt

I'd try it.

I doubt I'd like it for the things I tend to like ketchup with, because any thickened sauce that firm is going to have less presence on the tongue. Ketchup is a sweet, vinegary punch. You thicken that enough for a slice, and even if it's meltable, you still don't have the same capability of the relevant compounds to spread across the palate in the right way just isn't there.

But it's not some kind of crazy idea. There's plenty of ways to get a "gel" version of a given sauce or condiment. Hell, an aspic isn't exactly far off from this as it is, and tomato aspic is yummy as hell, if not as punchy as ketchup.

If it prevents the ketchup from leaking on the other end when biting then I'm willing to try.

Please stop proudly deteriorating, America.

wow people in the comments are REALLY fired up about the idea of ketchup existing in unfamiliar forms.

Wasn't ketchup bad enough?

Red plastic 😋

I'd try it. Is it really any more "processed" than ketchup already is?