I'm going to park in my driveway in celebration.

Sugar.

Do you really want unfancy ketchup, Subby?

Specific gravity, that's what.

I just figured it was because they wanted walk-up ATMs to have braille & there's no sense in ordering different buttons for the drive-up ATMs. Is that too easy?

There are lots of other mysteries out there. Like why do people still text with T9 shorthand when almost all of us now have full keyboards?

2 words, subby

/bug parts

Jake Havechek: Why does Store 24 have locks on the door?

In case it becomes a crime scene

katerbug72: Like Dijon Ketchup?

/not obscure

can you blame em?

Parthenogenetic: The taste of Heinz's ketchup began at the tip of the tongue, where our receptors for sweet and salty first appear, moved along the sides, where sour notes seem the strongest, then hit the back of the tongue, for umami and bitter, in one long crescendo.

Oh for fark's sake I can't trust any essay that uses outdated debunked bullshiat. The idea that our taste buds are localized came about from a mistranslation, and is very simple to debunk: If all our bitter receptors were at the back of our tongue, then you can put soap anywhere on the front half of your tongue and not taste any bitterness.

Then there's this crap:

Parthenogenetic: When Heinz moved to ripe tomatoes and increased the percentage of tomato solids, he made ketchup, first and foremost, a potent source of umami. Then he dramatically increased the concentration of vinegar, so that his ketchup had twice the acidity of most other ketchups; now ketchup was sour, another of the fundamental tastes. The post-benzoate ketchups also doubled the concentration of sugar-so now ketchup was also sweet-and all along ketchup had been salty and bitter.

So they increased the tomatoes, and the vinegar, and the sugar. Anyone ever baked something? Quick, what happens when you increase ALL the main ingredients? Yeah, you just get more. Recipes are all about ratios; increase everything and the ratios don't change; you just get more ketchup.

Ketchup is addictive because it's got a crapton of HFCS in it, and fructose is addictive.

I particularly like the instant lottery ticket vending machine's inclusion of "Please Ask Attendant For Assistance" in braille.

Every time I pass one I can't help but think of a scenario in which a cashier has to explain each of the 20 scratch-offs to a curious blind person.

Cashier: OK, so the first one is a "7, 11, 21". That's where you have to scratch off each section and if the numbers add up to 7, 11, or 21 you win the prize below.

Blind Person: Oh. I see. What's the next one?

Cashier: The next one is "Lucky Beehive Bonanza". That's where...

Never mind if the vending machine also has Powerball, Mega Millions, etc.

Now how to blind people know when to stop wiping their arse?

/RIP Bob Schimmel

dragonchild: So they increased the tomatoes, and the vinegar, and the sugar. Anyone ever baked something? Quick, what happens when you increase ALL the main ingredients? Yeah, you just get more. Recipes are all about ratios; increase everything and the ratios don't change; you just get more ketchup.

Unless you cook it down to condense those flavors, like they do in catsup or any other type of sauce.

Jeebus Saves: Unless you cook it down to condense those flavors, like they do in catsup or any other type of sauce.

That's a function of cooking time, and if that's what Heitz did the author's an idiot for not just saying "they made it more concentrated". It's nonsensical to talk about "they increased this, they increased this, and they increased this" when the factory's dumping them into vats in specific ratios and then cooking them for a specific amount of time. They don't measure the inputs that go into each bottle so much as calculate them.

pastorkius: offmymeds: But aren't drive-up ATM's usually on the drivers side? If the blind person is a passenger they'd have to get out of the vehicle to use the keypad. Why not just go into the bank itself?

I make all my blind friends sit in the back seat. It's not like they need to sit up front and take in the view or anything.

We need a blind Rosa Parks to stand up to sightists like you.

Di Atribe: I just figured it was because they wanted walk-up ATMs to have braille & there's no sense in ordering different buttons for the drive-up ATMs. Is that too easy?

That is, in fact, the real reason, belated industry standards or not.

Mental Floss mis-answering a question already handled by The Straight Dope twenty years ago, not to mention that it's probably listed by Snopes. Well, no one's perfect.