Heinz up for grabs / sold

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:37

I started a thread last year about Cadbury's going abroad and more recently losing Branston pickle to overseas. Now, Heinz is going abroad as well. With our disappearing high street and our exports decimated, what have we got to offer as a country? Responses in my last thread were along the lines of "we'll become a services-only country", but haven't a lot of that gone off-shore too with Indian call centres? It just surprises me how we still run as a 1st world country. 1st world problems eh?

Muffin` · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:45

Heinz is a US company not UK, it's not gone anywhere?

TheVoice · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:49

Muffin` said:
Heinz is a US company not UK, it's not gone anywhere?

What next, Ford?!

[DOD]Asprilla · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:50

Believe it or not we have the second biggest car manufacturing industry in Europe. Yes, all of it is foreign owned, but don't let anyone tell you we don't make anything anymore.

Azza · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:54

What? Since when was Heinz a UK company?

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:08

Ahh my bad. I thought it was UK because we say "ketchup" which is written on their bottles where US tends to say red sauce?

Antony101 · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:11

Monserrat said:
Ahh my bad. I thought it was UK because we say "ketchup" which is written on their bottles where US tends to say red sauce?

You seem to have that the wrong way too? I don't know anyone that says "ketchup"?

'Harry · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:14

??

It's ketchup there, red sauce here.

Time for a nap, monty :-D

Smigly · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:14

I say ketchup!!

Azza · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:21

Monserrat said:
Ahh my bad. I thought it was UK because we say "ketchup" which is written on their bottles where US tends to say red sauce?

Eh?

Have you been out in the sun in sunny Stafford too long?

diamount · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:23

I don't blame you for thinking it's a British company. One of the many common misnomers.

Nexus · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:28

Red Sauce is just a colloquial expression of the product though.

You don't got into a supermarket in the US and pick up a bottle of Heinz Red Sauce, or this country for that matter. Infact, I've lived in both places and not really heard many people refer to it as red sauce.

I'd also add that while Tomato Sauce tends to be used here more than the word Ketchup... Ketchup is hardly an American term, it was first used here in the UK to describe such sauces long before America was even colonised.

realscot · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:34

as long as they dont fiddle with the tom sauce and leave it as is it really doesn't bother me.
There really is no other alternative to heinz tomato sauce as every single other one i've tried doesn't even come close. (and i've tried many) I'd go as far to say that several of them have resulted in me throwing out whatever it was that I put it on.

ince · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:35

Oh no Hershey's will be next

Lunatic Dreyfus · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:41

At this rate Boeing will be gone too.

Madness.

Heliospherez · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:45

realscot said:
as long as they dont fiddle with the tom sauce and leave it as is it really doesn't bother me.
There really is no other alternative to heinz tomato sauce as every single other one i've tried doesn't even come close. (and i've tried many) I'd go as far to say that several of them have resulted in me throwing out whatever it was that I put it on.

Have to say - I think the opposite. I think their tomato sauce is one of the worst on the market. It seems watery, too bright and doesn't really taste of tomatoes at all.

Have you tried Lidls own brand - or Marks and Spencers own brand ? I even think Cross and Blackwell is way nicer (thicker and more tomato taste)

I do however think their "brown" sauce is one of the better ones.

Naffa · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:48

I can see a debate of epic proportions brewing, so all I'm going to say is...

Ketchup...? Catsup? Ketchup? Catsup? Ketchup? Catsup?

King Damager · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:53

To be Warren Buffet and just casually buy a company like Heinz....

(I'm sure he didn't casually buy it... But *sigh*)

kd

Nexus · 14 Feb 2013 at 19:14

Heliospherez said:
Have to say - I think the opposite. I think their tomato sauce is one of the worst on the market. It seems watery, too bright and doesn't really taste of tomatoes at all.

Have you tried Lidls own brand - or Marks and Spencers own brand ? I even think Cross and Blackwell is way nicer (thicker and more tomato taste)

I do however think their "brown" sauce is one of the better ones.

realscot said:
as long as they dont fiddle with the tom sauce and leave it as is it really doesn't bother me.
There really is no other alternative to heinz tomato sauce as every single other one i've tried doesn't even come close. (and i've tried many) I'd go as far to say that several of them have resulted in me throwing out whatever it was that I put it on.

Which? did a blind taste test of thirteen different high street tomato sauces a few years ago and Heinz came second from bottom!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-Heinz-ketchup-comes-BOTTOM-taste-tests.html

Since then, I've tried the Tesco and M&S brand (as Sainsbury's isn't near me) and they certainly have a better and tomato flavour taste.

Bloomfield · 14 Feb 2013 at 19:20

I like Heinz because it doesn't taste like tomatoes

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I've also never heard anyone call it "Tomato Ketchup" either, always Tomato/Red Sauce.