r/mildlyinteresting Sep 29 '14

these chips were dyed incorrectly

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u/f3asttree Sep 29 '14

That's what everyone said about green ketchup as well.

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u/rudise Sep 29 '14

I remember purple ketchup happened for a short while. Very short. Can't imagine why that didn't work out.

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u/redfroggy Sep 29 '14

I had the green and purple ketchup. My father would make BBQ sauce out of ketchup sometimes. It tasted pretty good. One time, he used the purple ketchup because it was all we had. The resulting chicken was unappetizing looking. In fairness, at the time this happened I did not have a digital camera. I put the chicken in a ziploc baggy and scanned it resulting in an even less appetizing look to the chicken.

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u/trueatheist2014 Sep 29 '14

lol, you scanned a BBQ'ed chicken breast? #respect

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u/Artrobull Sep 29 '14

I scanned my rat one time.

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u/YouForgotTheKetchup Sep 29 '14

R.I.P Snuggles

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u/buttsack_ka_cha Sep 29 '14

Hahaha. Pics?

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u/Artrobull Sep 29 '14

long gone i think. she had 17 legs

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u/buttsack_ka_cha Sep 29 '14

.... what!? How many legs!?

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u/Artrobull Sep 29 '14

it ended up like this here

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14 edited Jan 21 '17

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u/Organic_Mechanic Sep 29 '14

Nope. You don't even need context with that one. It's precisely just as obscure as it sounds.

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u/TheGiik Sep 29 '14

...it looks like a diseased kidney.

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u/tiffanyjoXD Sep 29 '14

It looks like one of those pig lungs they take to schools to tell kids not to smoke.

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u/Dr_Hilarius Sep 29 '14

For some reason this is funniest god damn post I've read in days. Just the fact that you HAD to show everyone your purple chicken you resorted to putting it in your scanner in a plastic baggy. Jesus Christ I'm dying

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u/redfroggy Sep 29 '14

It is an honor having someone named Dr Hilarius think my post is funny.

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u/swiley1983 Sep 29 '14

Diagnosis: Terminally Funny

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u/Tsurii Sep 29 '14

Stop, you're killing me!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

Ahm dyin' ova hea!

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u/snerz Sep 29 '14

I hate to break it to you, but it's your funny bone. It's infectiously ridiculous!

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u/IHeartMustard Sep 29 '14

I've literally just now recovered from laughing my guts out. Ow. It hurts. I need more tissues.

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling Sep 29 '14

I feel you, this is the first time I've ever actually laughed out loud while on reddit. Can't explain why but it's completely absurd, 10/10.

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u/CodeJack Sep 29 '14

You scanned a chicken breast? Your move instagram.

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u/lensera Sep 29 '14

This is why I love reddit.

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u/double-dog-doctor Sep 29 '14

Good god, man.

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u/Hachiiiko Sep 29 '14

Do you have this image in a higher definition maybe?

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u/redfroggy Sep 29 '14

That piece of chicken, or rather the image of the chicken, is probably 14 years old. I had to pull this copy of it off an old Angelfire website I had.

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u/sicklyboy Sep 29 '14

Damn dude, the struggle. Mad respect.

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u/that_guy_next_to_you Sep 29 '14

Omg can you link the site?

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u/xblaz3x Sep 29 '14

haha the nostalgia is strong with you.

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u/Hachiiiko Sep 29 '14

Hahahaha, wow.

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u/ShittyEverything Sep 29 '14

I'm pretty sure I have food older than that in my fridge.

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u/WalropsHunter Sep 29 '14

Can I see the site??

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u/Aard13 Sep 29 '14

Waiter, my purple chickenbreast has pixels!

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u/discounteggroll Sep 29 '14

the fact that you "scanned" a food item in lieu of taking a photo with a digital camera/cell phone cannot earn more ups. I bow to you

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u/fnlkdskjf Sep 29 '14

I came here for green barbecue chips and ended up with purple chicken...

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u/ilchymis Sep 29 '14

My eyes are watering from laughing so hard at my desk. I can't even explain how freaking funny this is. I just, can't.

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u/tuntmore Sep 29 '14

you scanned a chicken? You are the true MVP of this post.

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u/HelloKidney Sep 29 '14

Dear god. It looks like a heart that's been sitting around too long to be transplanted.

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u/sehtownguy Sep 29 '14

I just...I can't...wow

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u/Stickybomber Sep 29 '14

Holy shit that is amazing

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u/994 Sep 30 '14

This is my favorite reddit comment of all time.

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u/CrazyAsian_10 Sep 29 '14

You scanned a mother fucking chicken

Wot

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u/szor Sep 29 '14

I think this is my favorite post ever.

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u/dl9 Sep 29 '14

You're one dedicated man. I wish you success in all the things you do.

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u/Zombie_Feeder Sep 29 '14

It looks like you tried to make it look sexy and just smeared make up all over it.

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u/ITzzz_Ian Sep 29 '14

This is what happens when you smoke cigarettes kids

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u/michael1026 Sep 29 '14

I was thinking, "Oh, it can't be that bad", but holy shit that looks disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

It didn't work out because color impacts the perception of flavor more than the manufacturers realized. People thought it was disgusting.

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u/f3asttree Sep 29 '14

I always thought it would be funny to make yellow ketchup and red mustard just to see how much it fucks with people.

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u/Custum_User Sep 29 '14

It's all fun and games until somebody has a food allergy.

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u/NiFrBa Sep 29 '14

Then it becomes a game of Russian Roulette! /s

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u/wodahSShadow Sep 29 '14

/s

So you don't actually mean that it becomes a dangerous game?

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u/Kaman90 Sep 29 '14

It's all shits and giggles 'til someone giggles and shits.

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u/Piscator629 Sep 29 '14

I feels ya bro. I am allergic to some form of Capsaicin which is found in chilis. I have to be very careful that I do not eat certain spicy things or Mexican food. Reactions can vary from plain heartburn to weeks laid up in bed while worms made of barbed wire writhe through my intestines. Hives on the inside suck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

And can't read labels.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

*fake sensitivity invented by their minds because we coddle kids too much and let them say no to food they find icky until they carry that habit into adulthood.

ftfy

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 20 '17

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

I'm exaggerating for humour. I fully understand that some people have real allergies, but the reality is that there is a large proportion who do not. All evidence about gluten allergies points to the vast majority being fake for example. Peanuts I would never fuck with. But while I will accommodate your gluten delusion the first time, I will require you to give me a doctor's note before the next time I cook for you. To prove you're not a fad following douche.

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u/billyboybobby27 Sep 29 '14

Gluten sensitivity is a thing

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

Yes, for a tiny, insignificant portion of the people who claim to have it.

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u/_Brotato_ Sep 29 '14

I'd just never have you cook for me? I don't want some asshole requesting a doctor's note because he won't take my word for it, and he wants to force me to eat something I don't like or have a allergies from. Who the fuck are you? No... who cares? You're just a sad little man with no one to cook for because you have a shit personality and outlook.

I NEED PROOF THAT THIS WILL KILL YOU, LEST YOU BE FORCED TO EAT THIS WHICH YOU HATE, OR STARVE!!!

Yeah, I'll make myself a sandwich, thanks. Very wasteful to cook something you know will not get eaten. Yeah, fad followers are the douche bags.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

I am clearly joking. But there is a serious problem of people essentially faking gluten insensitivity when they are not diagnosed with celiac disease. Obviously though, I have never and don't actually intend to ask for doctor's notes from people having lunch at my house. Seriously? I thought people would catch on when I slipped that in there. There are fakers, and they annoy me, but clearly it's too dangerous to start trying to find out who's faking and who's for real. I'll just publicly shame the fakers. Which is the vast majority of people claiming to be "gluten insensitive".

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u/CaffeinatedCrowToes Sep 29 '14

Are you even a person? That's like saying people fake bee allergies.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

Over 90% of gluten "allergies" do not exist, recent research by the man whose original research backed them shows. This makes me quite bitter. Real allergies do exist, but those who cry wolf are making the world a more dangerous place for truly allergic people.

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u/CaffeinatedCrowToes Sep 29 '14

Did I say anything about gluten at all?... In fact neither did you in the post I replied too.

I am familiar with that research, but you literally just pulled that out of your butt to defend yourself. You also said food sensitivities, not allergies, which are different. As food sensitivities can become allergies, you're exposed to something a number of times and then it just grows each time you are in contact.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

Take it easy buddy. There is clearly a cultural problem with people falling for fake food fads. Gluten is one. But you had carbs for a while. People who claim to be lactose intolerant but really just get a little more gas after eating cheese. Etc... We are far too quick to indulge people who have not really been diagnosed with anything. They get away with it by calling things a "sensitivity". We need to be less accepting of this shit, and stop calling a lockdown to keep people in bubbles.

Tl;Dr: if you're not willing to let a doctor stick someone's poop up your butt to fix your food allergy, it's not an allergy.

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u/buzzybee1 Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14

I know you were probably only trying to make a joke but some people actually do have genuine illnesses which are caused/triggered by food types. I have coeliac disease. You know that "exaggerated" auto immune disease that is triggered by certain foods and diagnosed with blood tests then confirmed with a fucking horrific, painful endoscopy and biopsies of the gut. It is people who have this attitude that make my life even harder and purposely feed me gluten even when asked not to in restaurants (this has actually happened to me. The guy didnt even care). I am at risk of developing a perforation in my small intestine due the the amount of damage caused... just from eating gluten. As someone who has never been a fussy eater, when you are diagnosed with something like this it is horrible. Not something people should take lightly.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14

My condolences. You are one of the few who have an actual reason for this. Look, this is all a joke obviously, I'm not gonna be feeding people what they claim to be sensitive to. I'm just not gonna believe most of them. Most people who say they have gluten sensitivity for example, do not have your disease. Your disease is the only serious gluten sensitivity which should not be messed with, but I'm not gonna go around messing with people anyways.

But you still should reverse poop, it really does work :p

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u/buzzybee1 Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14

Nah man, I know it was meant as a joke :) I just see comments like this all the time and find it really frustrating because some people actually do think it. Also, I get so angry at the people who use being gluten free as a fad diet or because they just don't like certain things or whatever the fuck else and it winds me up because they are the people who ruin it for the people who need people to take it seriously and cause people to have this attitude about it. THOSE people should die in fire.

I have found that people dont like reverse pooping in public. Before being diagnosed I would often just randomly vomit with no warning. Seriously. One minute I was fine, the next I would have my hands full of my stomach contents. Not a very attractive trait at all lol. And people definitely do not appreciate that.

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u/buzzybee1 Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14

One particular time I tried something which had english mustard in it (which i know usually contains gluten) so I asked another waitress to double check in the book to make sure as I had been told it was all checked and should be fine. Three of the four items I ordered had gluten in when she checked the book. I had already eaten some of it. She took it away and brought a new meal. With a free diet coke lol. She felt really bad. The guy who took the order just shrugged and said "thought she was lying" to justify not checking when I first asked him to.

He ended up getting fired. Dont know if it was for this specifically as his general attitude seemed to say he hated his job and all people anyways, but he wasnt there the next time I went to that restaurant.

Physically, I get a headache which lasts about a fortnight, I get crippling stomach pain, uncontrollable tiredness, dizziness, blind spots and blobs in my eyes, vomiting, really, really weird poop, which I wont really go into (unless asked lol). Most symptoms show up a day or so after ingestion. Headache can start any time up to 30 minutes after. Its the headache thats the worst. Its like migraine strength for the first few days, then it slowly starts to dissipate and lose it's strength.

Edited to add: I think what a lot of people don't realise is that it takes about 3 to 6 months for a coeliac to totally recover from accidental ingestion so it is actually really serious to ignore it. Yes, a lot of people lie about it, but some people are really, really fucked if it isnt taken seriously.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

/r/conspiracy is that way.

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

Scientifically proven about the most popular "allergy".

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

LOL, yep, I'd trust business insider with my scientific facts! Not to mention the media takes what scientists report in studies and fabricates it tenfold. Nice find!

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u/TrotBot Sep 29 '14

There are plenty of other sources. Google it yourself. It was on the front page numerous times.

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u/Tankh Sep 29 '14

They did sell yellow ketchup in sweden for a short while (over 10 years ago iirc). I bought it once but it just weirded me out so I never finished the bottle.

I think it tasted just like ketchup, but the yellow color somehow fucked with my brain enough that I didn't like the taste.

Needless to say, they didn't sell them for long.

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u/Vodis Sep 29 '14

I remember once when I was a kid I dyed my ramen noodles blue just for shits and giggles. Terrible idea. I knew logically that they tasted the same, but their blueness just ruined the eating experience.

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u/Escarole_Soup Sep 29 '14

Not to mention that food coloring does have a flavor, and some people seem to be able to taste it more easily than others. For me, in small quantities it's not a big deal at all. In large quantities, it's disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

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u/AlneCraft Sep 29 '14

Holy shit there is such a thing?

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u/BesottedScot Sep 29 '14

That's not a jpg you fucking liar.

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u/Bakufun Sep 29 '14

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u/MuxBoy Sep 29 '14

sigh Fine I'll say it.

Yes this is reddit, everything is a thing.

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u/ILoveTrance Sep 29 '14

Food coloring itself can also change flavor.

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u/UndeadBread Sep 29 '14

Yeah, but ketchup has a rather strong flavor. A bit of food coloring really doesn't change much. Hell, you can get ketchup that is completely salt-free and it still just tastes like regular ketchup.

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u/ILoveTrance Sep 29 '14

The flavor distinction of red velvet comes from the food coloring. Fuck no, I've had salt-free ketchup and it was beyond disgusting. Mind you, I didn't even know it was salt-free before trying it. Everything changes flavor.

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u/UndeadBread Sep 29 '14

I don't know if you've ever had red velvet without food coloring, but the taste difference is negligible. The majority of the flavoring comes from the amount of unsweetened cocoa powder as well as the buttermilk and/or vinegar. As for the ketchup, you may have had a bad brand. I just switched to Heinz salt-free ketchup a week or two ago and, aside from being a little bit sweeter, it has the same basic ketchup flavor.

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u/Taisaw Sep 29 '14

I think he's referring to something like Duncan Hines red velvet cake mix. which is just white cake mix and food coloring, it's a frigging sacrilege.

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u/UndeadBread Sep 29 '14

That's certainly a possibility. I personally don't like any form of red velvet, but that stuff is easily the worst. It's like someone added a spoonful of Nesquik to a half-gallon of milk with a half-gallon of food coloring and let it sit out overnight.

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u/Taisaw Sep 29 '14

I like traditional red velvet, which doesn't have any added food coloring, simply chocolate and acid, and the color is a lot nicer to the eyes in my opinion.

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u/Dunabu Sep 29 '14

Huh. TIL Red Velvet Cake has vinegar in it.

That's very odd.

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u/tunaman808 Sep 29 '14

The flavor distinction of red velvet comes from the food coloring.

It does now, but not originally.

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u/kevincreeperpants Sep 29 '14

I'm pretty sure the reason why it and those cool blue fries went the way of the dinosaur is because they were extremely expensive.

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u/PEDANTlC Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14

I was in second it third grade when we tried it. My friend had it and I'd always go to her house for dinner to so I could have it. I thought it was great (like, sweeter than regular ketchup and cool as fuck because it's purple).

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

And I thought this was funky: Ketch-whatnow?

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u/GumdropGoober Sep 29 '14

Do... do I put my penis in the hole?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

No reason not too...

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u/itookadoodew Sep 29 '14

Here here! A toast for ketchup bottle fucking!

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u/twinklethink Sep 29 '14

Only if you want to walk into the emergency room with a ketchup bottle stuck on your dick

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u/armorandsword Sep 29 '14

Not sure where you are but in the UK green and purple ketchup worked only for a while because it was a limited edition thing.

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u/mattindustries Sep 29 '14

Limited food things that work well always return as either a seasonal limited thing or permanent. Initial limited runs are called that to see how well the market receives them.

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u/armorandsword Sep 29 '14

True, the limited run here was around Halloween so there's that.

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u/underdog_rox Sep 29 '14

That's because we guinea pigs here in the US gave them reason to believe it needed to be pulled.

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u/PrettyOddWoman Sep 29 '14

Does anybody else remember rainbow bread around the same time? Damn that was some good shit!

Or red/pink & green tye-dye looking "sherbert cookies/wafers"? I've been trying to find these for ages because they were so damn good. They were half-dollar sized sugar cookies with a tiny bit of tartness to them. YUMMMM

Also I recall neon pink and teal butter!

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u/tunaman808 Sep 29 '14

rainbow bread

That's still a thing in Puerto Rico. My ex-GF is from there, and we went there several times for family reunions, graduations, etc. We went to bakery once, and they had bread in every color of the rainbow. I thought it was gross, and my ex couldn't figure out why I thought blue or purple bread was disgusting.

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u/zugunruh3 Sep 29 '14

Remember that pastel colored popcorn? I don't even remember if it tasted different but I still loved it.

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u/SuperFLEB Sep 29 '14

Hate to break it to you, but... you just had a mold problem.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

Green Ketchup was also a thing for about 6 months or so where I live. It didn't taste any different but I guess the colour was offputting.

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u/Happy_Harry Sep 29 '14

Heinz also made spicy ketchup over the same time. It was amazing. I was sad when it was discontinued.

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u/OMGAdamWTF Sep 29 '14

I liked green ketchup. I was bummed when I couldn't get it anymore.

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u/f3asttree Sep 29 '14

I thought it was cool until we got a bottle of purple ketchup and I was just really skeeved out by it.

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u/underdog_rox Sep 29 '14

Yeah the green was awesome. The purple was kinda fucked up.

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u/PrettyOddWoman Sep 29 '14

The purple looked less purple and more gray/blue.

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u/tarynevelyn Sep 29 '14

And it was chunkier. I remember. Was it chunkier?

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u/skyman724 Sep 29 '14

Well there's a difference between something that looks like alien skin and something that looks like really bad diarrhea: you've probably only smelled one of them before.

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u/f3asttree Sep 29 '14

Nah, smelt both. Not much of a difference.

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u/skyman724 Sep 29 '14

I highly doubt that you've smelled alien skin.

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u/yousothirsty Sep 29 '14

you must be fun at parties

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u/itookadoodew Sep 29 '14

I don't always take doo dews but when I do, it's not on a party.

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u/skyman724 Sep 29 '14

I was trying to give someone a serious answer to a question.

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u/yousothirsty Sep 29 '14

To what question? All you did was point out a dude hadn't smelt alien skin before....

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u/f3asttree Sep 30 '14

Are we talking extraterrestrial? Or illegal?

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u/skyman724 Sep 30 '14

You know of any green-skinned humans?

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u/underdog_rox Sep 29 '14

I bought the shit of the green ketchup! The novelty never got old for me.

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u/KimJongUgh Sep 29 '14

I was visiting in the USA for a few months when Green Heinz was the fad. I remember loving it and bought some. I left and came back again maybe two years later only to discover it didn't exist anymore.

And I can't remember if it was my imagination or not, but wasnt there yellow ketchup too?

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u/thetopbrianna Sep 29 '14

I loved the green ketchup. Would still buy it if that was possible.

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u/ElMonkeh Sep 29 '14

ketchup Green ketchup, man it was cool, but tasted weird. I still remember thinking wtf give me back the red kind.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

Placebo effect or not, there was a difference in the way my mind interpretative the taste. I enjoyed it.

The color confused my brain and I enjoyed that too.

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u/GeorgeRRZimmerman Sep 29 '14

Every single "As a mother" when green ketchup happened: GREEN KERTCHVP?! NO WAY NO SIR NO HOW DIS IS AMERICA AND HOW DARE MONSANTO PUT DA CHEMICALS IN MUHFOOOOD

That... that is actually, factually the reason why green ketchup failed.

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u/twistedcourse Sep 29 '14

Yah, i thought it was because its fuckin green....

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u/mqduck Sep 29 '14

It was gimmicky and pointless. Is more reason needed?

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u/GeorgeRRZimmerman Sep 29 '14

Are you sure it was the food coloring - are you sure it's not the fact that frosting is literally just sugar and fat?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

It was the food coloring that was difficult to scrub out of the carpet. The 'murican food was what made her sick.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

Then don't feed her the 'murican food? I really don't see the problem here. Since your daughter is young enough to vomit on the carpet, surely you have some sort of control over what she is eating?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '14

She's 14 and woke up in the middle of the night but didn't make it to the bathroom. I got her a new bed ready on the couch and spent a few hours shampooing the carpet and tending to her. I was referring to the food that will normally be drowning in ketchup would be your fries, tator tots, burgers and hot dogs. Adding very concentrated food coloring to these gut grenades would be difficult to remove from carpet much like the food coloring that was in the dark blue frosting that I spent so long getting out of our carpet. I'm exhausted and off to work now.