How It's Made - Ketchup

[RWebb]

[cabmandone]

I'll take ya up to Bowling Green or over by Minster and you can see if for yourself.

[wdfifteen]

I always suspected that was what was in those red bottles. What a horror! My homemade ketchup is less than 10% human blood and animal waste. They should be ashamed.

[Nostril Cheese]

Truth, Yo.

My mother is obsessed with "organic" products. I sent this clip to her.

[MBAtarga]

So where's the soylent green video?

[Pazuzu]

If you want that proper, vinegar flavor profile in your catsup, then you need to make sure to source the blood from really rotten, old, spinster cat-ladies. Thus, the basis for the name...

[Seahawk]

The rest of the story, from Garage Journal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/iks1yl/tifu_by_accidentally_sparking_international/

Oh, and the death threats. Since I posted it, there usually isn't more than a day or two that goes by where I don't receive SOME sort of threatening message or comment because I've "exposed" the "conspiracy" behind ketchup. Everything from DDoS threats, swatting threats, someone called for a Fatwa once (!) - all over this dumber-than-dirt idea I made bored on a Sunday.

[sammyg2]

Actions have consequences.

[stealthn]

I was not expecting that, hilarious.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Actions have consequences.

Yea, most actions have reactions. But a very obvious satire does not deserve death threats.

62 years ago, British people believed that spaghetti grows on trees. Their belief blossomed after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) aired an authentic-looking serious Panorama 3-minute documentary on the subject.

https://www.ststworld.com/spaghetti-tree-hoax/

They had thousands of people ask how they can plant a spaghetti tree. No one back then threatened death for the sill hoax.