A ketchup packet large enough to do the job right

Published: July 30, 2007, 8:29 am

Tags: collinsville illinois, guinness book of world records attempt, heinz, ketchup

Filed under: Television/Film, Food Oddities, Condiments, AmericaI learned yesterday, thanks to the folks at How Much is Inside, that it takes 50 packets of ketchup to fill up one 14 ounce bottle of Heinz. This morning, I discovered (via CNN) that the town of Collinsville, Illinois determined to take the bottle/packet experiment a different direction and find out how many bottles of ketchup they could fit inside one, enormous ketchup packet. The H.J. Heinz Co. donated 4,000 glass bottles of ketchup to Collinsville, which they then "sold" for $1 to the townsfolk. They were then poured into the oversized packet. I wonder if they employed the "hit the 57 approach" in order to get the ketchup out of the bottle. In addition be being a Guinness Book of World Records attempt, the event was also a fund raiser for a local school that was recently damaged by fire. The article mentioned that in a few days the packet will be taken to the Heinz Co. headquarters in Pittsburgh. I wonder what

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