Once I decided to ditch the sand castle enthusiast, Ketchup made it easy.
The fries (made with a cattle feed known as "cow corn") were served on a landing pad of ketchup made from discarded beet bits.
This Labor Day, you can let loose those locavore instincts and slather your burgers with new seasonal ketchup made from New Jersey tomatoes.
In the "Who Knew?" category, HEINZ KETCHUP made its public debut at the 1876 Philadelphia Fair, and I especially liked the wordplay in the clue at 23 Across: "Get an inside look at our booth" for XRAY MACHINE.
For $1.50, you can have your crispy-skinned frank draped in a thick, brown, clove-accented meat sauce, which, along with chopped onions and a lather of mustard and ketchup, makes for quite a satisfying bite.
If the thought of blue fries covered in purple ketchup makes you cringe, consider that Heinz decided on its potato flavors after a year of testing 50 of them.
When Jim Wigon set up shop that day in Zabar's, then, his operating assumption was that there ought to be some segment of the population that preferred a ketchup made with Stanislaus tomato paste and hand-chopped basil and maple syrup.
If the idea of "luxury ketchup" makes you guffaw, you aren't alone.
If you're craving a burger and/or fries with real ketchup, make your way here.
Served with pickled cucumber butts -- the ends and offcuts discarded by the processor to allow for uniform pickle slices and ketchup made from reject beets that would otherwise be composted".
The burgers are served rare, the ketchup made in house, and the servers are occasionally eye-rollingly pretentious about the whole shtick (and the end of the day, we really are just talking about sandwiches).
