http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&e=3&u=/afp/us_vote_food

This is in response to Teresa Heinz-Kerry, the wife of John Kerry. In my opinion, this is stupid as hell, especially considering that the actual Heinz family only owns 4% of the company. And nevermind the fact there isn't anything more American than the story of Henry Heinz.

EDIT: In an unrelated note, http://jibjab.com/MovieViewer.aspx?contentid=162

[This message has been edited by KnobZ (edited July 10, 2004).]

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I vote that we call this new "W Ketchup" simply "Whutchup".

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited July 10, 2004).]

Hahahahahaha

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wtf...

Sometimes I hate this country. And the planet.

This really goes beyond words for me... it's just that stupid.

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Well I never... If our nation resorts to winning elections with KETCHUP, God knows what we'll do next. I find freedom fries, toast, ketchup or anything of the sort a juvenile effort to try to draw society to a cause. I personally don't like ketchup, but if I did, I would rather buy a generic store brand that sells ketchup by the bottle, not patriotism.

That is astoundingly stupid.

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I bet you think that's funny, don't you.

Stupid name, how many people are gonna think of "Dubya" instead of Washington?..

Then again for people who don't know it could turn them off of Bush more by labeling him a "sell-out."

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We hear that obesity is becoming the next big epidemic, but I disagree. I think it's stupidity.

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These people are sad. They don't use a ketchup because they don't like the husband of the person that owns the company. I hope they get herpes.

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Kieran: The reason I put a link to it is because she is in underwear and I know the admins are touchy on that.
Yecti: Jaiph will touch himself for hours if he so much as smells a woman's underwear

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited July 10, 2004).]

Hallelujah! Preach the truth, brother!

when people are worried about what political party there ketchup belongs to there is something rong with america

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I'm going to skip the stupidity of the first article and go to this. That's hilarious. kept me laughing the whole time. "From california... to the New York Islands *slap* what i do?"

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YES. I'd completely forgotten that part of War of the Worlds.

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Exactly. calm the hell down people. it's ****ing ketchup.



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It's a damned joke, people. It's hardly a serious campaign tactic, or even an angry boycott of goods from an anti-American nation like France, as is the case with 'freedom fries'. It's all simply a harmless joke, and if that offends you, then you need to get off your damned high horse and lighten up.

"You don't support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?" Heehee, that slogan cracks me up, politics completely aside. How does that not reek of pleasant satire?

Jerks.

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it's not the ketchup... it's the stupidity behind the ketchup

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There was also a flavor called "Iraqi road" (rocky road). Good stuff.



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Oh come on. "Nutty Environmentalist" is downright hilarious. It's such an uncouth stab while simultaneously being a clever play on words. You people are so wrapped up in politics that you can't see the funny. IT'S RIDICULOUS. THAT'S THE POINT!

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Or better yet, violated by a convicted felon using a mace.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

Or people could stop taking **** so seriously

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Whoa...I always thought Heinz ketchup was German. Or Austrian. Or Swiss.

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If you can read this, you need better glasses.

But what if it tastes nicer than Heinz?

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Here's a question: how many Americans actually call french fries "freedom fries" now?

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I'm not american, but I call them freedom fries for the comedic value.

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I don't know why anyone would complain about the Heinz company. Mrs. Kerry actually has very little control on it's management, she just collects money. The people that actually run the company have been supporting Bush for quite some time.

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/april/0422_heinz_supports_bush.shtml

Funny stuff. Those idiots that spent the time to make that ketchup are all driving American assembled cars with parts from around the world. Not to mention everything else they own. LOL!!!

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Pissed off?

That, my friend, is the problem with modern politics in this country.

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You know, even if this ketchup thing is just a joke, it's a STUPID one. Why make a joke that isn't funny? The only thing about it that I laugh at is the time they must have spent to make those lables.

You /do/ realize this is not the first time things like this have occurred?

I imagine we are not even the only country to have done such things, though unfortunately i cannot remember or think of any specific examples that weren't the US.

But WW1/2 were rather notorious for similar things. Most notably the change from 'Frankfurter' to 'hot dog', sometimes going as far as to use 'liberty cabbage' for 'sauerkraut', and 'liberty measles' for 'german' measles', along with similar sorts of replacements.

And if you want to get really technical, it's arguable that the very re-standardization of spelling in colonial America was a reactopmary distancing sort of measure from England. However, i do not think that is necessary to show that there is a long American history of bowdlerization.

The /real/ irony here though is that 'French fries' are actually Belgium, not the mention that we are the only language in the world [that i am aware of] which /calls/ them that in the first place, most everywhere else they are merely 'frittes' or 'pommes frittes' or some variation thereof.

So, remember as you are eating your Freedom Bread Waffles, and Freedom Potato Strips, and drinking your Freedom Bubbly White Wine, that the most important thing of all is to remember to engage in lots of Freedom Kissing to support your country and show your patriotism!

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I think some people are missing the issue here: Some people are trying to make ketchup a political issue. And to you it may seem like a joke, but it isn't to them. Just as the left has its psychos, so does the right. It's partisan crap like this that is ruining the country. It's ketchup for god's sake. If it tastes better, fine. But don't make it political.

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Kieran: The reason I put a link to it is because she is in underwear and I know the admins are touchy on that.
Yecti: Jaiph will touch himself for hours if he so much as smells a woman's underwear

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited July 11, 2004).]

I could have sworn both links are jokes (and funny too).

You guys are the ones taking the ketchup to seiously.

I love how "made in the USA" is supposed to be some sort of advert.

There is a reason why the vast majority of everything is made in other countries. That is because stuff made in America is crap.

Pretty much everything can be made in other countries better and cheaper. Foreigners work harder for a lower wage, and that is why they are employed. I gladly buy stuff that's made in foreign countries, as my money is rewarding the hard work of some bloke. I'm not going to reward someone just for being of the same nationality.
Wage has to be based on how hard you work, not where you're from. Foreigners are stealing all your jobs? Work harder, lazy Americans.

While I agree with you on the surface Mort, its is more complicated then that. I'll type it later if I have the time and you want me to.

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Kieran: The reason I put a link to it is because she is in underwear and I know the admins are touchy on that.
Yecti: Jaiph will touch himself for hours if he so much as smells a woman's underwear

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You might want to actually come up with a response before you make an idiotic reply like that.


Also, I do, Kieran.

I figure exploitation of third world countries probably comes into it?
For that, there's fair trade products.

It won't be long before we're branded thread hi-jackers for introducing an interesting subtopic into this thread, mind you. You might want to flood the forum with half a dozen threads to avoid this.

[This message has been edited by Mort-Hog (edited July 11, 2004).]