August 1, 2012
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So Apparently, We’ve Been Using Ketchup Cups All Wrong.
Apparently, we — a collective of food-eating-ketchup-using hooligans — have been consuming ketchup all wrong.
If you’ve ever poured ketchup into those tiny paper cup containers and brought them back to your table for fry dunking and burger smearing, you might be a victim of ketchup ignorance as well.
Did you know that these ketchup containers are built to fan out, and are made to allow for more dunk square-footage?
As it stands, your fries probably fit pretty snugly, but imagine wanting to dip your burger into that tiny cup — not happening.
The conversation came up after a long day at the beach. I was weathered, the sun had beat down on my face, I was nothing more than a walking zombie and my barbaric eating habits must have shown. There we were, a group of my friends sitting on a picnic table outside of a local burger shack, and I was trying to dunk my burger into a cup of ketchup that looked like this:
My friend Matt, noticing my struggle of trying to fit a humongous peg into a seemingly unwilling pinhole of ketchup, nonchalantly reached for my ketchup container, tugged the upper crust out, and showed me that I had been using these ketchup containers wrong my entire life.
Now my dunking apparatus looked like this:
Amazing. I will never look at people using ketchup in the pre-fanned containers the same again. Hell, I can barely look at myself in the mirror for doing it incorrectly my entire life.
Thanks mom and dad, for teaching me absolutely nothing about proper ketchup eating. At least now I know.
via Foodbeast
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Comments (18)
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where's the tutorial video?
I've been doing that for years at In-n-Out. Another useful tip is to spray a girl in the eyes with axe when she shows you modeling pics of her calves.
what?!?!?!?! O_O whoa!
HOLY CRAP.
life is changed... FOREVER.
*mindblown*
ketchup cups!?
I've been using them as penis top hats. NOW I see why they have it at McDonalds.
but now it's way too stretched out for me to use.
(that's what he said)
I did not know that. Interesting!
They get flimsy if you fan them out too much.
Whoah...
I never bothered. I was too busy eating!
oh man... *ducks head in shame*
Judging by the comments, you weren't the only one. Aaaand I can hold my head up and proudly say I've been making my little paper cup bigger since I was just a little one, hardly tall enough to reach the ketchup dispenser. Although, I'm still only 5 feet tall, so that coulda been at any time.
YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL AMATEURS!
@somethingyou__forgot - MUST LEARN!
Not enough ketchup for my burger in those little cups. I live by the smear-ketchup-on-before-each-bite method.
You East Coast people are behind the times.
Saw these on buzzfeed today. Imma get Moar ketchup from now on!
which face are you at work?
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