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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Pudliszki or death.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can online. And if you haven't ever had curry ketchup, prepare for your life to change.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Do yourselves one better and find chili sauce, itโ€™s like ketchup made with peppers too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y'all should be using Hela regardless of my county's dumb policies. Heinz is trash in comparison.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

You guys buy branded ketchup? Its Aldis store brand or nothing for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heinz > Store brand > Hunts, i buy generic mustard and everything else unless thereโ€™s a good sale.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hunts truly is garbage tier.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will buy European as much as possible but even I have my limits

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

yes. i cannot cope with not heinz

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I also recommend Branston Baked Beans as an alternative to Heinz. Cheaper and better imo

Edit: British brand, Japanese owned

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I donโ€™t always want Gewรผrz in my Ketchup tho.

But there are enough alternatives to be fair.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it taste similar to American ketchup, or is it sweeter like the German ketchup I remember as a kid?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hela has 3-4 different variants of "regular" non-curry ketchup with varying degrees of sweetness.

You just gotta find the one you like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Neaver heard of Hela. And also never bought Heinz ketchup either. Only local Polish ketchups ftw.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the best choice anyway, buy local to support local business and people

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sometimes it just takes a few tries to get used to something

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Also love Paladin from Portugal. They make a bunch of different condiments and sauces.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

The Heinz who started the company was the son of German immigrant parents, hence the surname.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The only thing my fries need is kewpie mayo ๐Ÿ˜‹

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can make mayonnaise yourself within a few minutes. Its just eggyolk and oil. Tastes way better than anything store bought.

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Curry ketptchup is a gift sent from the gods.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Get your hands on some jalapeรฑo puree ketchup, it's amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Hela ketchup is just really fucking sweet for some reason. It is also one of the worse Gewรผrzketchups I had, the supermarket brands usually are way less sweet and have an actual difference in the flavour of their different products.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Like all ketchup, some are too sweet, some are more tart. Find the ketchup you like, and add curry powder to it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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 ๐Ÿฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Curry ketchup blew my mind the first time I tried it. Need to figure out where I can buy it from in the UK.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You can make it with curry powder, it's not so hard

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

*Hela

Gewรผrzketchup is pretty different, though. It's not like there aren't hundreds of brands that make regular ketchup.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

*Hulu is not European.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks, fixed!

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