- I want ketchup.
(laughs)
That's my intro.
(upbeat hip-hop music)
I'm Lizz, and I love ketchup,
and I'm going to blow this test out of the water.
- I'm Nate, and I also love ketchup,
and I'm going to blow this test more out of the water.
- I'm Shelby.
- I'm Nick.
- And we're taste testing different types of ketchup.
- And I'm a ketchup pro, been eating since about 1993.
So had every kind of ketchup.
I've had all kinds of fancy ketchup, vinegary ketchup,
spicy ketchup, sweet ketchup so,
bring it at me.
- Many of my friends have caught me just squeezing
the ketchup onto my finger and eating it.
Or if I have extra ketchup packets at,
like, In-N-Out or something,
I'll just squeeze the ketchup packet into my mouth.
- I'm actually a ketchup master,
and I've been having ketchup since 1991.
- Oh okay.
- Yeah
- When were you born?
- 1991
- Good ketchup just makes you go, "wow!"
Just takes any food and elevates it to the next level.
Bad ketchup, you're just, it's just like
you're putting, like, slop on food,
and it just makes your food not wow.
- Like not wow.
- Yeah, let's do it. Let's bring it.
I'm ready for the ketchup.
(upbeat hip-hop music)
- [Both] One, two, three.
(gasp)
- McDonald's french fries.
The holy grail of french fries!
- It's like the smell you get
when you're like in a ball pit.
So good.
- In a ball pit?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- When's the last time you were in a ball pit?
- Actually, kind of recently.
Don't ask questions.
I just was.
- Oh!
Okay, oh.
(funky music)
- This is McDonald's ketchup - McDonald's ketchup!
- You know at one point they called this fancy ketchup.
- That's right!
That's what they put on their packets.
- They did!
- I don't like it quite as much.
- Not a fan of the McDonald's.
- No, I don't like, I don't like the vinegariness.
I think, I've always thought this,
like I'm not even kidding, this is thoughts in my head
when I as eating McDonald's fries as a kid, like.
I feel like this ketchup
takes away the McDonald's fry flavor.
- So, I usually open it and I do, like one fry
and I like, I do it like-
- Yeah, I'll do that - across the top.
- Oh, you don't like it?
You're not a fan?
- Well, I wouldn't say that I like, dislike it.
Like, if I was like stranded on an island
and it was all I had to eat, I would eat it.
- Yeah, you just do it nice.
- Yeah, just get it on there nice and good.
- Right across the top.
- There we go.
- Yeah, yeah, I'm just-
- Yeah good, waft it, you know.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- For me, I'm very neutral on it.
I'm fine with it.
Obviously like I would go with
a different sauce for McDonald's
but if it's like all they have, I'm okay.
- This is like your childhood in a packet.
(suspicious music)
- All right, it's a little fancier.
The container is different.
No more plastic pack.
- It's already, you can tell it's darker.
(spoon clanking)
It's a much richer red.
- Hmm.
- Looks,
- Nice color.
- Yeah, its got a good color.
- The deep, deep color - The nice, visc, vis,
- Viscosity.
- Viscosity, yeah!
I'm not good at talking.
- Mm!
- It's pretty good.
- Interesting.
Smells sweeter.
- It is definitely sweeter.
Now that you mention the vinegar,
it's really hard not to think
about the vinegar in the ketchup.
- Yeah.
Well, you learn something new every day.
- Let's waft it.
- Oh yeah.
- Okay.
I have a feeling this ones gonna be less sweet.
- All right, let's try this mason jar ketchup.
This is weird.
- Jar ketchup.
- Yeah.
Okay, I can't eat it with the fries.
It gets mixed in.
- This one to me is a little bit bland honestly.
- Yeah, there's not a lot of flavor.
- Yeah.
- Which is surprising for how much it smelled like that.
- I know.
I thought it was gonna be like even smoky, sort of
but, yeah this ones not really doing anything for me,
to be honest.
- Fries are so good.
(lips smacking)
- It's interesting.
I like it.
- This is Heinz.
- This is Heinz?
- Maybe I'll get like one more fry, just,
you know just to be safe.
- Yeah this is, it's like you said,
this makes your food not wow.
- Yeah, please.
Don't try and fool me with your jar.
(laughs)
Next.
- No, it's like I wanna go back to McDonald's
- No, I miss the McDonald's ketchup.
(light orchestral music)
- Oh, thank you. - Oh, oh my.
- Ooh, okay.
- Oh! - Oh!
Oh my gosh.
Five star treatment.
- Oh, why thank you.
- Wow.
Are we having spaghetti?
- Seeing some little small flecks in there.
Aw, hmm.
- Think this is the fancy one.
- Mm-hmm.
- It's got flecks in it.
- I've never seen ketchup like this before.
- Ooh, smells,
- Ooh, I smell truffle.
- I do too.
- I smell truffle oil - Ooh.
- Oh!
If there's anything that I love,
it's ketchup and it's truffles.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah, there's like some dark-
- Whoa!
That was really good.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- I guess we just gotta dip.
- Yeah.
(record scratching)
- Ooh.
- Oh!
- Mm, yeah.
- This truffle ketchup is so good!
(laughs)
- It's so good!
- This is the good stuff, right here.
- Oh man! - Mm-hmm.
- Oh my god.
- You see, this is taking this fry from like,
a good fry, to a wow fry.
- To a wow fry!
- Oh my god!
- We should trademark that.
(bell dings) Wow fry.
- I don't know what you're waiting for.
- I need to observe it, before you try it.
Part of the taste is the visual appeal of it.
- Yeah.
- I think I literally just drooled.
(laughs)
Like, it's so good.
- Wow, I don't like truffle that much.
I think it's super overrated.
People just like it because it's fancy,
so I am very hesitant.
I don't think I'm gonna like this one quite as much
but let's see.
(jazzy music)
Wow, I was right.
I don't like this one quite as much.
- This is like an adequate amount of ketchup for me.
Most people they do the little, you know
the little tiny puddle. - Mm-hmm.
- No, I need like a pool.
- I don't know.
I kind of like this one the most,
Of them all.
If it wasn't presented so elegantly,
I still would've been able to tell
that it's the fanciest one.
- I'm just gonna keep eating. - Yeah.
I'm just gonna keep going.
- You know?
- Not gonna stop.
(upbeat percussion music)
- I really liked the third ketchup the best
because, A, I love truffle, can't go wrong with truffle.
B, it actually did taste like ketchup,
still had a nice vinegary flavor
and C, very, very good consistency
and D, I just wanted to lick it off the plate.
That's an indescribable quality.
- I liked the Heinz, number two the best
and the third one the least.
- [Producer] The second one was not Heinz.
- It wasn't.
- [Producer] It was all natural healthy
garden sugar free ketchup.
- I wanna see it after!
- I like the most expensive one the best.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't know, that one was just so good.
I think I might be into the finer things in ketchup.
How much can for $24? - That's it.
- That little jar right there?
I don't think I like it anymore.
(laughs)
It's too expensive - Dang.
- $24?
- That's a lot, that's a lot of clams for ketchup.
- I think ketchup is the number one condiment.
You can argue with me in the comments
if you think I'm wrong
but there is really no condiment better than ketchup.
It's good on everything.
- Life without ketchup is a life not truly lived.
- Facts.
(upbeat jazzy music)