DailyDirt: You Say Ketchup, I Say Catsup...
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Ketchup actually started out as a fish sauce and somehow evolved into the much more widely-consumed condiment we know today. Early recipes of ketchup contained sodium benzoate -- which was banned in the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. That ban led to other formulations which contained vinegar as a preservative and used ripe tomatoes. Here are just a few more fascinating factoids about this tangy, thixotropic, tomato-based foodstuff.- MIT researchers have developed LiquiGlide -- a non-stick coating that could let people get every last drop of ketchup out of a bottle easily. Anticipation is no longer making me wait.... [url]
- Malcom Gladwell is famous for (among other things) his talk on spaghetti sauces and the discovery that customers want a spectrum of choices when it comes to spaghetti sauces. But ketchup seems to be the exception to the rule because there's just a single dominant brand -- and there are far fewer than 57 varieties of it. [url]
- Should ketchup count as a vegetable in school lunches? The tomato sauce on pizza may not count as a vegetable serving according to mothers and the USDA, but it might for some politicians. [url]
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Filed Under: catsup, condiment, food, ketchup, liquiglide, malcolm gladwell, pizza, sauce, sodium benzoate, tomato
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MIT researchers have developed LiquiGlide...
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Re: MIT researchers have developed LiquiGlide...
Just make sure you have one of these handy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003409/SWITL-robotic-hand-Japanese-device-scoop-liq uid-spills-ANY-mess.html
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It's Tomato Sauce, people!
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And yet one still finds it on the grocery shelves.
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Getting It All Out
1) As it gets low, start propping it upside down when you put it back in the larder/fridge.
2) Give it a vigorous shake with the cap firmly on to coax it all closer to the opening. Then you can open the cap and dribble it out with less vigorous shaking.
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Really, who cares what Malcom Gladwell says?
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here's the things i apply to avoid this problem
2. In cases where point 1 wasn't applied, I point the nozzle downward then I flick my wrist such as to stop the motion of the container abruptly
That being said I'd gladly have this invention aplied on my diches and bowls. I hve doing the dishes and don't want an energy & water wasting machine to do it either, nor do I have the room for one.
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What???
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2922
I used to live 3 blocks from it.
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What is it?
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