No Blood For Ketchup!

Please Pass On The Ketchup
Or: Don't Think Too Deep On The Symbolism

7/12/04 - Don't think too deep on the symbolism? What are we trying to say? Whatcha suppose they mean by "W" ... anyone we know? Looking at that big red bottle of "W Ketchup" conjures up images of, what, blood? Of course not.

Here we have another example of Food for Republicans, and you can take your freedom fries and stick them in it. Republican Food appeals to its main demographic, flag-waving warmongers, by including elements of war, like Star Spangled's "Choc & Awe" Ice Cream (chocolate ice cream exploding with chocolate chips & cookie bits - har har). Here, we have guns and soldiers on both the front and back label, lots of stars and stripes, and of course the agitated looking eagle. [The eagle is actually expressing anger towards those that do not support the environment]

You know, Washington doesn't look like he approved this message. Reagan, pictured on their sell page, probably didn't either, as he thought "ketchup is a vegetable".

Of course, as these folks are quick to point out, Heinz Ketchup = Evil Democrats, so buy this stuff instead. Well, these ketchup tycoonettes must have got the same e-mail a few months back that got Republicans all anti-Heinz. Not only does Teresa Heinz have little to zero influence on the company, Heinz has thus far given 85% of the political contributions to the Republicans (most big companies give to Republicans to remain big)

So much for #1 and #2 reasons on the "About W Ketchup" page. In case you missed #1, scroll down this same page, and learn how food manufacturers sometimes grow, process, and sell food LOCALLY, hence the need for factories in other countries. #3 is a little harder to touch.

"A portion of every W Ketchup sale will be donated to to the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships for the children of active duty service members killed in the line of duty." OK - that's respectful. But when the president of this UN and environmental-hating Freedom Alliance, Thomas Kilgannon, says, “We’re beginning a program this year to get young kids—high school and college students—interested in military service,” does this mean the scholarships the kids get send them to military college? Hey! No blood for ketchup!

They say that the "W" stands for Washington, which may be true, because W doesn't even know what W stands for. Although, looking back at the ketchup bottle, and the last 3 1/2 years of Bush, safe to say the W stands for war on both.