I also recommend Branston Baked Beans as an alternative to Heinz. Cheaper and better imo
Edit: British brand, Japanese owned
I concur! Branston beans have in my opinion a thicker consistency with a deeper flavour and creamier mouth feel. After being converted to Branston, Heinz tastes like metallic orange water with overly firm beans.
Curry ketptchup is a gift sent from the gods.
I’ve tried it once and it was disgustingly sweet. I’m unsure if the praise is just a meme or it’s another entry on the long list of typical german food I don’t like despite living there.
Like all ketchup, some are too sweet, some are more tart. Find the ketchup you like, and add curry powder to it.
Out of all the curry ketchups you can get in Germany, Hela has the highest sugar content (source: me comparing the labels in the supermarket)
I love it 🍬
Hela ketchup is just really fucking sweet for some reason. It is also one of the worse Gewürzketchups I had, the supermarket brands usually are way less sweet and have an actual difference in the flavour of their different products.
Curry ketchup blew my mind the first time I tried it. Need to figure out where I can buy it from in the UK.
You can make it with curry powder, it’s not so hard
Get your hands on some jalapeño puree ketchup, it’s amazing.
How can you eat that stuff? It’s supposed to be ketchup, not curry. And currywurst is also an abomination. Nürnbergers or polish white sausages!
Edit: typo
You don’t like something, we get it. Can I enjoy something delicious in peace?
Wait until they hear about mayochup
Basically cocktail sauce?
Feel free, I don’t hold you accountable to my opinion! I’m 100% sure that there are things in my cuisine that you’d find absolutely disgusting. Different people, different tastes.
But seriously: what is it good on?
It’s a good. 1:1 replacement for ketchup in all cases you’d use ketchup, IMO
You guys buy branded ketchup? Its Aldis store brand or nothing for me.
I buy Hela ketchup at Aldi, so I guess it’s their store brand? Definitely cheap.
Aren’t you contradicting yourself if you only buy aldis store brand?
No.
Heinz > Store brand > Hunts, i buy generic mustard and everything else unless there’s a good sale.
Hunts truly is garbage tier.
It’s a bit of a long drive to Aldis for some of us, I don’t know which country the closest one is in. Most people probably just buy what they grew up on. For me that’s Felix so I guess you could say it’s European, but Orkla is publicly traded so it sorta loses all meaning.
I only buy fancy shit now and just eat less of it, like stokes and a couple of local ones.
All that own brand stuff is just tomato juice concentrate with a load of thickening agents plus sugar and crap to make it taste like something. And Heinz was always overly sweet crap anyway.
ketchup? never heard of her
Til heinz is american
The Heinz who started the company was the son of German immigrant parents, hence the surname.
Brand ownership can get super weird.
Heinz is an American company. Daddies, which is a very British brand, is now owned by Heinz too, so is also American.
On the other hand Helmann’s (of both mayo and ketchup providence) is an American brand which is now owned by Unilever…so technically British.
Tell me about it! I spent waaaay too much time in the store today, looking up the incestuous corporate relationships.
Also, TIL I learned that I need reading glasses :(
Fucking tiny print
Fun fact time! Heinz originated in Pittsburgh and used to have a massive factory built in the 1910’s, and when it shut down they eventually renovated it into apartments. The buildings are now all named after what they once produced there - Bean Building, Meat Building, Cereal Building, Reservoir Building, and Shipping Building.
It’s rumored that the Meat Building has a vibrant gay community.
Real life lore
lol it sounds so not American
do Americans even know how to pronounce it properly?
Yes, they pronounce it correctly. Even if it was somehow a challenge, they have been hearing it in commercials since early childhood.
whoa ok I’m sorry just wondering
*Hela
Gewürzketchup is pretty different, though. It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of brands that make regular ketchup.
*Hola
*Helau
*Hula
*Hulu is not European.
Olau!
Thanks, fixed!
Neaver heard of Hela. And also never bought Heinz ketchup either. Only local Polish ketchups ftw.
That’s the best choice anyway, buy local to support local business and people
Until recently none of the local ketchup brands in Sweden was to my liking, they all taste like what un-refrigerated Heinz tastes like, which I hate. But now there are a few that are good, not the same but good in their own way!
Sometimes it just takes a few tries to get used to something
Made in Venlo, the Netherlands
I will buy European as much as possible but even I have my limits
yes. i cannot cope with not heinz
You spelt “Felix Ketchup” wrong.
Y’all should be using Hela regardless of my county’s dumb policies. Heinz is trash in comparison.
I absolutely love Hela but I honestly don’t see how anyone could think it could be a substitute for tomato ketchup. The two aren’t even remotely the same thing, except maybe in consistency.
And so much better too
Their Curry ketchup is awesome
I once went to a fancy steak house and ordered potato wedges on the side
They brought us a sauciere of their “new sauce they are working on” to try out
And I swear it was literally just slightly thinned hela curry ketchup
It tasted exactly the same. Still great on wedges, tho
The only thing my fries need is kewpie mayo 😋
You can make mayonnaise yourself within a few minutes. Its just eggyolk and oil. Tastes way better than anything store bought.
Also love Paladin from Portugal. They make a bunch of different condiments and sauces.
Speaking as a veteran of the Canadian Ketchup Wars, victory is achievable!
Canada brought Heinz to it’s knees in our ketchup war nearly a decade ago, you can do it too.
Sadly even french’s is now owned by the americans.
Wasn’t it always? I think it is a guys name, not a nationality.
The Americans boycotted it during the Iraq wars but that is just because they are stable geniuses.
[edit: just looked it up - Robert French — from New York ]
Upvoted for that “stable geniuses” line. Perfect
It was what the Canadian market moved to for ketchup and mustard after heinz fucked over Canadian workers. Its what the above is referring to, the move to the brand of “french’s” to be more pro Canadian.
I am not talking about what usa people did or did not do, just that the Canadian move to french’s is now not good enough.
Yeah but the goal of that Ketchup War wasn’t to boycott the US, just to ensure that ketchup was being produced in Canada. And it was successful as Heinz was forced to open a new plant in Canada.
Now I just get the store brand Ketchup (seems good enough to me, it’s likely made in the same plant as French’s) so I think the US is completely out from my Ketchup purchases. Though I’m not sure who owns that plant (it’s not French’s they just have a contract with that plant to make it for them) but the point is to reduce the amount of money going to the US as much as possible, and that’ll do it.
Aussie “ketchup” (tomatey sauce) is more rich and less firetruck red sickly sweet.
Rosella for those interested! https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/61679 (on a meat pie)
I’m a fan of Zeisner ketchup, but usually buy store brand (Boni) because my kids seem to drink it instead of dosing.
