A true packaging breakthrough, the Heinz Dip & Squeeze dual-function package gives ketchup lovers two ways to enjoy Heinz Ketchup: either peel back the lid for easy dipping, or tear off the tip to squeeze onto favorite foods. The new package holds three times as much Heinz Ketchup as the traditional packet.
A different article cites the team's challenges in developing this new packet:
Heinz has long struggled to find a design that lets diners dip or squeeze ketchup that could also be sold at a price acceptable to its restaurant customers. For this effort, it bought its design team a used minivan two years ago to test if their ideas really worked while eating on the road.Ok, I admit I don't have any nostalgia for the old ketchup packet. I remember my dad had a glove box full of McDonald's ketchup packets, along with a smattering of pepper & salt packages (ok, he probably still does. They were never thrown out). And maybe some of my youth was wasted smashing, squirting, or accidentally stepping on the packets. For sure, in the rare times I use individually packaged ketchup I usually use 3 of them, so making the packet server larger sort of makes sense.
But is this really a revolution? No, more like a minor skirmish. A bigger revolution would be a way to stop creating all this packaging. Or, the biggest challenge of all: to explain the difference between "ketchup" and "catsup".
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"Easy, Everywhere, Fun!" it says. But I'm not sure I want ketchup everywhere when I open it.
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