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Ketchup Evolution

Dean

Some surprisingly interesting thoughts on ketchup here.

(Thanks Jerry.)

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Paul Burgess (www):

Mmmmmm... mustard....

11.16.2005 7:12am

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Arnold Harris (mail):

I became a confirmed mustard lover especially after I started sampling the offerings in the Mustard Museum, which is located in Mount Horeb.

As for catsup, I seriously reconsidered any attachment I had to that while listening to Teresa Heinz open her yap during the 2004 national election.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

11.16.2005 7:16am

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Cybrludite (mail) (www):

People get paid for this. The mind boggles... (Not that I'm complaining about the results, but still...)

11.16.2005 7:48am

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triticale (mail) (www):

Ketchup didn't evolve. It was intelligently designed.

11.16.2005 8:03am

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John_B (mail) (www):

Good article! I'd have liked to have read more about the histories of both mustard and catsup, though.

11.16.2005 9:22am

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Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):

Triticale wrote:
"Ketchup didn't evolve. It was intelligently designed."

Quite true.

Arnold Harris:

A Mustard Museum in Mount Horeb, WI? Excellent. Yes, I love mustard, too. I don't eat much catsup, but as for Teresa Heinz Kerry, I'm not going to let some Communist politician's wife deter me from looking at a Heinz 57 bottle and concluding: "There are exactly 57 Communists in the State Department!" I still prefer A-1 steak sauce, though. Tartar sauce and seafood cocktail sauce only taste good with seafood, though. I love seafood, I need to eat more of it.

11.16.2005 5:41pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Speaking of ketchup and evolution... A biologist friend once told me how boring cladistics is. I said how all I knew about cladistics came from a Stephen Jay Gould essay, but it seemed pretty interesting. She replied, "Yeah, but that's Gould. Gould could make dirt interesting." And I answered, "Yeah, I read that essay, too." And she was right: the late Mr. Gould had a talent for digging into almost any subject, finding fascinating insights and history that you never knew were there, and tying them together into the most interesting essays.

Why do I bring this up? Because thanks to Dean's link, I have now discovered that Malcolm Gladwell has talent of that nature and caliber. I just spent twenty minutes raptly reading about ketchup, for pity's sake; and at the end, I felt educated and amused and eager for more of his work.

Thanks for the link, Dean! (Of course, thie risks my productivity for a long while, as I catch up on Mr. Gladwell's work.)

11.16.2005 10:17pm

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MaryJ:

Teresa Heinz, is exactly why I only use Hunt's now.

11.16.2005 10:23pm