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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

0:40 I love the intro...

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.

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

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

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 think matpat is going insane just by looking at the intro

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

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

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