McDonald's hasn't updated their ketchup packet design since 1986?!

[Pardus]

Those ketchup packets can survive a nuclear holocaust. I have some in my fridge that have probably been there since I bought the house. First time I see "Fancy" ketchup though.

So do McDonald's french fries.

 

[KeithP]

Wouldn't that copyright be for the actual ketchup and not the packaging?

-KeithP

 

[Red Squirrel]

So do McDonald's french fries.

Haha yeah that is true... I need to try that experiment some day. The fries, burger and maybe the nuggets too.

Though it will be hard to go buy food for a purpose other than eating it. Using the word food loosely here. :biggrin:

 

[Zenmervolt]

Spoiler

All ketchup grades are made with reject tomatoes

Didn't know that was a secret.

ZV

 

[OutHouse]

McDonalds only used Heinz in two american markets. Those are Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. Everywhere else in the US has not used Heinz since the 1970s to early 1980s(McDonalds started phasing out Heinz in 1973/1974). So those two markets are getting switched over to what every other market has already been using for up to four decades. Its a private formula for McDonalds that is manufactured by several different manufacturers.

For the record. Theres almost zero difference between Heinz and McDonalds ketchup. That said Whataburger ketchup > any other ketchup by many times over.

yes, my first job was mcdonalds when I was 16 and the mcducks in denver used Hunts the big 5 pound bag had hunts printed on it.. i remember remember mcducks used hunts and bk used heinz.

 

[Leros]

Fun facts about grade 1 food:

In order to qualify as U.S. No. 1 Grade, the commodities listed below cannot exceed the following limits of contamination:

Ketchup -- 30 fruit fly eggs per 100 grams
Canned corn -- 2 insect larvae per 100 grams
Blueberries -- 2 maggots per 100 berries
Peanut butter -- 50 insect fragments per 100 grams
Curry powder -- 100 insect fragments per 100 grams
Wheat -- 1% of grains infested
Sesame seed -- 5% of seeds infested
Coffee -- 10% of beans infested

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/food.html

 

[sao123]

If your McDonalds isn't using this: it's not worth eating there.

The cumulative affect of 3 years or R&D and millions of dollars = Ketchup Packet 2.0

 

[OutHouse]

Fun facts about grade 1 food:


http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/food.html

look up the USDA requirements for canned fruit cocktail. its crazy

 

[alkemyst]

If your McDonalds isn't using this: it's not worth eating there.

The cumulative affect of 3 years or R&D and millions of dollars = Ketchup Packet 2.0

This only works well if it's take out.

 

[alkemyst]

Didn't know that was a secret.

ZV

QFT. Like most of the fruit/vegetable market. The stock that can't be sold outright, gets processed.

I think too many here should just read a simple book I had to in middle school named "The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

 

[Leros]

If your McDonalds isn't using this: it's not worth eating there.

The cumulative affect of 3 years or R&D and millions of dollars = Ketchup Packet 2.0

Looks like that might use more material than the foil packet.

 

[JMapleton]

Fun facts about grade 1 food:


http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/food.html

That's why we have a digestive system. You cannot avoid that stuff.

 

[SparkyJJO]

That's why we have a digestive system. You cannot avoid that stuff.

A little extra protein never hurt anyone.

 

[trmiv]

Looks like that might use more material than the foil packet.

That's 3 foil packets worth of ketchup in each one though.

 

[LTC8K6]

The contents will change soon. McDonald's is dumping Heinz. Heinz sold out to Buffet/3G. 3G owns Burger King.

McDonald's dumped Heinz a while ago as you can see by the copyright date on the ketchup packet. Heinz ketchup was only used in a very limited area in the US for a long time before this final split.

McDonald's quit using Heinz for the majority of the US a long time ago when Heinz could not meet demand. It was in the 1970's that Heinz lost most of McD's business.

 

[LTC8K6]

Heinz was only used in two markets in the U.S.," said Lisa McComb, director of McDonald's U.S. media relations.

In this country, Heinz ketchup has been served in McDonald's restaurants only in the Pittsburgh and Minneapolis markets.

http://www.post-gazette.com/busines...en-Arches-dropping-Heinz/stories/201310250056

 

[IronWing]

McDonald's hasn't updated their ketchup packet design since 1986?!

McDonalds has a very conservative company culture. They haven't changed the french fry oil since 1972.

 

[twinrider1]

...McDonald's quit using Heinz for the majority of the US a long time ago...

Thanks. I like McD's ketchup. Heinz, I thought, was the only ketchup I liked. I wonder who makes McD's ketchup.

 

[mmntech]

It's unusual for a company not to change the graphic design of packaging for such a long time. Though it probably works for them. Why spend good money changing it?

The whole ketchup issue is certainly hurting Heinz, or at least they say it is. They just announced them were shutting down their 105 year old factory in Leamington Ontario. That's going to absolutely devastate that community. Not just the workers at the factory either. They always used locally grown tomatoes, and Leamington is Tomato Town. So a lot of farmers will be put out of business too. Probably using the McDick's thing as a cover to move the plant to Mexico or China.

 

[waggy]

McDonalds has a very conservative company culture. They haven't changed the french fry oil since 1972.

wrong. they just did a few years ago.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/MCDONALD-S-OIL-CHANGE-Fast-food-giant-to-trim-3185573.php

 

[NoTine42]

Didn't know that was a secret.

ZV

Heinz tries to make a big deal how their tomatoes use Heinz specific tomato seed, implying they are tastier...but really its because they developed a plant that all tomatoes ripen at the same time, so a machine can mechanically harvest the entire plant.

 

[CZroe]

wrong. they just did a few years ago.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/MCDONALD-S-OIL-CHANGE-Fast-food-giant-to-trim-3185573.php

Article mentions changes in 2003 and 1990. The 2003 changes were all over the news back then because of the "ZONE! Trans-fats!" stuff in the media.

 

[Phoenix86]

McDonalds has a very conservative company culture. They haven't changed the french fry oil since 1972.

I'd think you have to change that every week or so. :hmm:

 

[IronWing]

I'd think you have to change that every week or so. :hmm:

No one gets my jokes.

 

[sao123]

Thanks. I like McD's ketchup. Heinz, I thought, was the only ketchup I liked. I wonder who makes McD's ketchup.

Golden State Foods, makers of the big mac sauce.