[syadasti]

W Ketchup - nice idea to make some quick money but based on false premises like most right-wing initiatives:

Americans allergic to the subtle Democratic flavor of Heinz ketchup can now plunge their 'freedom fries' into a 100-percent guaranteed, patriotic alternative: 'W Ketchup.' Here purple Heinz ketchup(AFP/HO/File)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/heinz.asp

Claim: Senator John Kerry's wife owns Heinz, a company that outsources much of its work abroad.

Status: False.

Although Senator Kerry has been critical of the Bush administration for rewarding "Benedict Arnold CEOs" who move "profits and jobs overseas," the above-quoted attempt to link Kerry (through his wife) with the very outsourcing he decries is flawed in two major ways. First off, Teresa Heinz Kerry does not "own the Heinz Corporation" — she has no involvement whatsoever with the management or operations of the H.J. Heinz Company, nor does she own anything close to a controlling interest of the company's stock. According to Heinz itself, the Heinz family trust which Mrs. Kerry inherited sold most of its shares of Heinz stock back in 1995 and currently holds less than a 4% interest in the company...

(A 4% stake in a company as large as Heinz still represents a considerable amount of money, but it isn't nearly large enough a share to give the holder any significant control or influence over the company's business decisions.)

Moreover, the Heinz Company's operations are not an example of the type of outsourcing that is currently a hot political issue (i.e., sending out work to offshore companies to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform). Heinz is a U.S.-based global business which sells its products in dozens of other countries, and like other food companies it has to localize some of its production at factories located in its foreign market areas. (It makes little sense from either an economic or a freshness standpoint to be shipping fruits and vegetables and/or finished food products halfway around the world rather than producing them locally.) One wouldn't expect, for example, every can and bottle of Coca-Cola sold anywhere in the world — whether it be Australia, China, or Portugal — to be produced by U.S. bottlers.)

As the H.J. Heinz Company notes, well over half its sales come from foreign markets, and it therefore operates overseas facilities to serve those markets...

 

[fluff]

But is it not still Heinz?

I dunno who's more confused, you or the republican spin machine..

(or me)

 

[syadasti]

But is it not still Heinz?

I dunno who's more confused, you or the republican spin machine..

(or me)

That is from yahoo photos - read the caption.

W Ketchup looks like this:

 

[Slugman]

Do you have the link to the "W" ketchup?

 

[syadasti]

Do you have the link to the "W" ketchup?

Does anyone know how to use the Internet or search tools - there is this thing called Google or Yahoo

http://www.wketchup.com

 

[LordOpie]

What's google?

 

[syadasti]

Some good ketchup:

http://www.worldsrealketchup.com

 

[Slugman]

Does anyone know how to use the Internet or search tools - there is this thing called Google or Yahoo

http://www.wketchup.com

Actually I typically include any link that I am talking about... so I expect it from others...

Besides, I'm too busy looking at other RM stuff to search :eviltongu

 

[fluff]

That is from yahoo photos - read the caption.

I read the caption:

'Americans allergic to the subtle Democratic flavor of Heinz ketchup can now plunge their 'freedom fries' into a 100-percent guaranteed, patriotic alternative: 'W Ketchup.' Here purple Heinz ketchup(AFP/HO/File)'

A great example of poor sentence structure. Especially when illustrated with purple Heinz.

 

[syadasti]

A great example of poor sentence structure. Especially when illustrated with purple Heinz.

Nah, just a lazy photo editor - they didn't feel like pulling the W photo and getting permission for it...

 

[Tenchiro]

Catsup = America loving patriotism
Ketchup = Pinko communism...