Food Theory: We Are RUNNING OUT of Ketchup! (McDonalds) 

As an ex Taco Bell employee, we "supposed to give 1 sauce packet per item", but the stores order like 50 pounds of each sauce and some people need more than 1 packet sooo.. Enjoy having a quarter pound of sauce

I’ve been hoarding ketchup packets for years. This packet shortage will be the first thing I’ve ever been prepared for in my life.

I went to Wendy's a couple weeks ago and instead of giving me packets they gave me a little cup with a lid filled with ketchup, so much better than packets imo.

I'm surprised that fast food places don't package their own condiment packs, especially since they are always so weird about bbq sauce

"Ketchup packet demand is up 300%" The drawer that my mom has put all of her sauce packets in is finally going to be opened.

MatPat: "Okay, admittedly I'm being a bit overdramatic about the whole 'demise' thing." Your major was musical theatre, we aren't gonna judge you.

I discovered this channel only a few weeks ago, and by watching the episodes in chronological order, it becomes really apparent how the amount of dad jokes have been increasing a lot over time :v

A ketcup shortage Me a mayo fan: oh yeah its all coming together

"We are running out of ketchup." The poor college students who have their pockets filled with packets: *Oh no! Anyways.*

"We need ketchup packets for take out!" Heinz: "You got it! Touchless ketchup dispenser!"

Funny story about Taco Bell sauce packets: My dad is a regular at Taco Bell. He would always use tons of hot sauce on his food; he practically drank the stuff. The workers knew this, so James, the guy running the drive thru that day, gave us a mound of sauce. It was so much that it filled a gallon ice cream bucket and then some! It lasted us months!

As someone who doesn’t even eat ketchup I see this as an absolute win

As a former taco bell employee, we are told to just straight up toss giant handfuls of sauce so customers never complain about not having enough

As a Taco Bell worker, the sauce packet part is 100% accurate we don’t care how many sauces you want, we’ll give handfuls of sauce to people who order one taco if they ask. Even if people just ask for one we usually give a few.

Heinz will always have the best ketchup whether to dip in your hash browns or drink when you're stuck in a grocery store

mat pat: don't you see history repeating itself techno blade: don't you see history repeating itself

Ok, funny story, my friend has been stealing ketchup packets from the school cafeteria and putting them in his back pack, he has around 100 packets of ketchup in his bag, I have no words.

I think matpat is going insane just by looking at the intro

0:40 I love the intro...

Man! As an objectively ketchup obsessed guy, I gotta tell ya… more accurately speaking, the history of ketchup is from Central Europe. The first time it was made, it was a type of sauce called “catch up” or “Catsup,” and the most historically known primary ingredient was assorted edible mushrooms. A simple way of making the sauce was taking a large quantity of mushrooms in a basket or bucket, covering in salt to extract the moisture, separating as much moisture as possible by squeezing through a cloth, seasoning by preference and taste, and using like that, the mostly dehydrated mushrooms would be usable in other dishes, or if prepared a certain way, could simply be a travel snack. To my knowledge, the Chinese fish pickling thing is more along the lines of a way to make a soup broth and preserving the fish.

"I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes" "Really, Sir?" "I now have *Heinzsight"*

Canadian here. We turned out back on heniz several years ago because they left a bunch of our tomato farmers high and dry after not buying the crop they promised too. We all switched to frenchs because they stepped up and bought those tomatoes.

Those dip n squeeze packs are truly the ultimate fast food sauce delivery method

I have to say I love the original editing style and the current one a ton the animated images just gives it a nice aesthetic I now mostly associate with these great channels and my childhood.

“But then everything changed cause Heinz wasn’t prepared for...” when the fire nation attacked?

As an ex dairy queen employee I can say the entire staffs jobs were threatened by giving more than two dip and squeeze ketchups "if they want more after that give them regular packets" I had to tell someone that once in the drive thru

I just noticed the Intro has the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man in it!!! MattPat is and always been so funny and cool!

4:51 wait Wait WAIT!!! WHAT IS CATSUP!

The Taco Bell guy was so enthusiastic to give MatPat sauce that he grew a whole new hand just to pull a lever

No more ketchup? My Canadian brothers and sisters, rise up.

That Troll 2 reference was the best thing I've seen all day

7:15 Guess you could say it just didn't tickle their fancy.

As someone who works at sonic, weve already moved to non-Heinz ketchup. I didnt know it was because of this until now lol

"ketchup packets are in high demand" *Local restaurant called sidelines when making my takeout order:* mm yes 2 handfuls

2:18 miss a good pun right there pat you should have said "ket-chup"

That was the best beginning to one of these videos yet

Scientists: *trying to stop a pandemic* The internet: we're running out of ketchup

The opening gag reminded me of this time in high school. I was car pooling with a few other kids to play practice after school and we stopped at Taco Bell to get drinks and nothing else. After making the order of drinks the drive thru guy asked "would you like hot sauce with that?"

That’s why at school they started handing out “fancy ketchup” packets over Heinz ketchup

Can we get that tapping-the-57 mini food theory? Maybe you can package it with some other "food theories for another day", call it "Food Theory: Leftovers", or something else to do with Takeout lol

I'm surprised you didn't do one on the whole chicken wings shortage tbh. After that crazy snowstorm in Texas, 50,000 chickens died and now lots of stores can't even get wings to sell to restaurants.

My grandfather dated the heiress of the Heinz family in college, if he had married her I might be swimming in a pool of condiments right now

I can't stop watching the intro it's just too funny 😂

I've been making the catch up joke for years and I'm honestly happy to hear it here on food theory

Hey Matt, I have a suggestion for a Food Theorie Episode. In modern cooking there are five basic sauces that are considered as so called mothersauces. Every other sauce there is can be created by altering these five. The mothersauces, as considered today are: Béchamel Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Espagnole Sauce, Velouté Sauce and Hollandaise Sauce. But among those is an imposter. The french author Auguste Escoffier first mentioned this definition in his book "Le guide culinaire", and he described the sauced as stated above with the one little difference, that he did not consider hollandaise a mothersauße, because there is a simpler more basic sauce, that is made the same way (a cold emulsion of egg(water) and oil), and this sauce is … mayonnaise. But because he did not list mayonnaise in the same paragraph as the other mothersauces, and only described his discovery in the introduction sentence above mayonnaise, that got lost in the official English translation, this information got lost and even disappeared from later publications. The cooking RU-vidr Alex (He is a frech guy that does food oriented videos) had doubt about the legitimacy of hollandaise and went to the Paris library to requested to read in the original version to proof that. But to this day almost every article on the internet published the wrong mothersauce status of hollandaise, denying mayo his rightful place in the Olymp of sauces. (He did try to contact Wikipedia to "fix" the article and after half a year he managed to secure a side note on the English entry of "Frech Mother Sauces" about mayonnaise be the OG mothersauce.) I highly recommend watching Alex's original video, because this was his discovery and not mine. I just thought it would make for a nice Food Theorie Episode. (Man did I write a lot. I should probably got to sleep now xD)

Can we just appreciate how many channels this guy has but he is able to post on I think all his channels about 1 time a week

I remember my first time watching robot chicken lol The edits are giving me nostalgia

Other countries :We don't have any ketchup Philippines :Chill while enjoying banana ketchup

Former Taco Bell employee, can confirm. We use to get into packet fights and a manger tried to put a stop to it by saying we had to pay for them. I handed them $20 and we took the box of a thousand.

The opening Taco Bell gag makes me think of TWO instances now where my dad ordered, like...3 things from Taco Bell, and they gave him-I kid you not-48 PACKETS OF HOT SAUCE!!!!!!!! Each time. So now my family has a bowl of hot sauce packets sitting on the table.

2:55 The 'oh my god!' guy has a fly on his forehead

The beginning skit actually got me this time 🤣

Honestly, I think the reason why Taco Bell gives out so many sauce packets is so you could make a machine gun that shoots sauce packets in the event of a zombie or robot apocalypse

The problem with being the number one supplier is that if you go down, you take everyone down with you...and everyone else is even quicker to seek out alternatives rather than hear "we'll be fine next week"

The intro skit is so relatable, I asked for a couple packets of mild and they gave me a pile of Diablo sauce.

I love that this is about ketchup, and I have a ketchup advertisement on the pre-roll ad.

Who spends days, researching about ketchup, just to entertain us, deserves a medal 🥇... Well done 👏

the dip n squeeze ketchup is like one of the best inventions ever and i still dont understand why other fast food chains havent been getting them

Interestingly, people were selling ketchup packets on ebay for absolutely absurd prices during the storage.

I completely agree with you on the dip n' squeeze packets, Matpat. Those things are awesome

I think at this point I'm just waiting for MatPat's Scooby-Doo moment where he dramatically reveals "Food Theory was Business Theory all along!" And I'm here for it.

Food theory idea - Can we have an episode where you try to find the best hangover cure? Like you did with spice but...maybe a little more theory and less actual hangover-ness

I can’t believe how much effort the food theorists put into videos

I love how Edd Crouse actually became a thing. In this theory and the last and hopefully all the more to come. (Note: Is like lagging behind on sub videos)

This is like that scene in The Martian where he runs out of ketchup and immediately becomes depressed.

So they made the gag at the beginning where taco bell is weirdly eager to give away sauce packets. And it reminded of the time I ordered a 12 pack of tacos and when they asked me what type of sauce I wanted I said "Just give me all of em, im the sauce boss" and they responded with "I got you fam." and when i got home and opened the box half of it was filled with sauce packets.

I can't wait to see this guy's next series after this

Man can’t relate more it’s not only shortage in franchises but in regular homes I went to store the other day and found no ketchup

As someone who works at McDonalds: we are in fact NOT running out of ketchup. Just workers.

I went to McDonald’s yesterday and got a large thing of fries when I asked for ketchup they gave me three packets, this is truly dark times 😭

1:59 I’ve never NOT had ketchup in my fridge, Bro

lol that intro was sublime xD

I love the Food theory gang. I could just chow down on a sandwich and eat some fries while hearing good ol MatPat just explain a theory he came up with.

I wonder how he looked like IRL in his closet saying : "Curse you taco bell"🤣🤣

I bet you there’s lore in the food theory intro

My mom has been saving ketchup mustard and mayonnaise packets for around 5 years. I guess that stash of hers actually came in handy

Me who has been using BBQ sauce my whole life: *_"My goals are beyond your understanding."_*

I like how the intros aren’t funny sometimes but how much they make me laugh.

The intro was awesome!

I love how matpat made taco bell like that, always wanting 2 give sauce packets!

Theory Idea: How long can dairy queen blizzards stay upside down and how

Heinz may be the market leader and all, but when you go to some hole-in-the-wall local restaurant and they give you Red Gold ketchup packets, you KNOW you're in for some amazing food!

I love that opening. LOLOLOL

5:00 there goes that king of queens joke

Me eating fries with ketchup right now: "Oh no, anyway!"

Hitting the ketchup bottle in the 57 definitely works better than just shacking it. I worked at a Johnny Rockets in high school where we had to make smiley faces out of the ketchup coming out of the glass bottles. As you can imagine this was difficult. We actually found out that instead of your hand hitting the 57 the best way to do it was to keep your hand in the same place and moving the bottle to let the 57 hit your palm.

We also had catch-up shortages in schools I was wondering why they only were giving out one ketchup packet to each student, I originally thought it was because of Covid and they didn’t want people touching the packets but now I know why sadly I’m not on food theory as much as I am the other two channels so this took me quite a while to find.

As someone who hasn't eaten ketchup since childhood this just makes me happy

Never thought I’d be enjoying learning about the history of ketchup this much.

"I guess you could say this is a golden opportunity for Heinz's competitors to ketch-up" me: *forgets that I'm not on a voice chat and drums on the desk* badum-tsh *realization* ...I mean, I'm sure he would've appreciated it if he could hear me

Sans in Undertale Genocide Route: *angry* and *being brave* Sans seeing this video: This is BAD!!! *panics* Sans when he watches 2:48: Oh. Phew. *calms*

Funfact: The Ketchup in McDonalds Portugal is made in Portugal and it is exported to some McDonalds locations in Spain and France.

Matpat: "-but that year everything changed when-- Me: " THE FIRE NATION ATTACKED??!!" Matpat: -- when Heinz- Me: ...

For the past decade in the UK, we've had adverts for supermarket branded ketchup, these days I just buy any ketchup, that's also because of an either bigger paradigm shift: Helman's the mayonnaise company introduced ketchup and Heinz introduced their own Mayonaise.

Wow this is actually interesting to me since I realized I changed my preference for ketchup from Heinz to no name and French’s catsup

Heinz also took a BIT of a hit recently when they decided to stop using Canadian tomatoes and yet continue to sell their product in Canada ... a good chunk of folk around here switched to French's which proudly played up their Canadian tomato content.

Dear food theory: thanks for helping me to write a couple papers for my MBA. Yes, I did reference you and hoping my professor doesn’t judge me. Maybe he’s a subscriber too.

Before covid:McDonald’s wasn’t busy at 5-6pm During covid: ultra busy at 5-6pm

As my grandmas wise words are, “Cats up is the best”

Taco Bell is always giving away sauce, until you order two crunch wraps. Suddenly you only need one half filled fire sauce.