Heinz
About Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz, was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactured food products on six continents, and marketed them in more than 200 countries and territories. The company claimed to have 150 number-one or number-two brands worldwide as of 2013. Heinz ranked first in ketchup in the US with a market share in excess of 50%; the Ore-Ida label held 46% of the frozen potato sector in 2003.
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During World War II, Heinz developed a self-heating can of soup. To work it, it had to be lit like a bomb. Unfortunately, it very often exploded like one.
from 405: No Such Thing As Caviar-Flavoured Water, 2021-12-17 at 00:11:27 · read transcript
Other times Heinz came up
I was, James, when you said they have to have a hole in the top, I just thought, I thought you were going to say, because obviously, if the air all goes up in there, it just gets stuck in there and you just stay where you are at the sky. That's how that works, yeah. Do you know that, you may have seen it, actually, this is like extremely cutting-edge soup news right now. The Heinz have just released a Christmas soup, which is very exciting. They've just announced it as a kind of PR thing. They've only made 500 tins, but it's got, you know, everything.
407: No Such Thing As An Echidna With An After Eight Mint, 2021-12-31 · listen
Right. There's another American political connection in that the great, great, great granddaughter, something in that territory of Heinz, is married to John Kerry when he was running, and still is married, but when he was running for presidency. Yeah. So he didn't get the presidency, but he got to fall back on those baked bean billions, which is millions. Good consolation. She was Republican, wasn't she, Theresa?
405: No Such Thing As Caviar-Flavoured Water, 2021-12-17 · listen
This is an interesting one. Number 31, Queen. Number 96, The Queen. Ouch. I was just laughing the face for Lizzie. She's probably feeling under pressure. Heinz made mayo chop once. What's that? It's what it sounds like. Mayonnaise and ketchup? That's absolutely right. It's a combination product, and they launched it... I think they launched it in the US a while earlier, but they launched it in Canada in 2019, at which point the chief of the Kree people, you know, one of the First Nations peoples in Canada, explained that in the Kree language, it means shit face.
405: No Such Thing As Caviar-Flavoured Water, 2021-12-17 · listen
It was in Philadelphia. 10 million people visited a fifth of the American population. There were massive displays. They had all kinds of stuff, the biggest building in the world. It was where they first had Heinz ketchup. They first had, like, they had the arm of the Statue of Liberty because they hadn't afforded all the money for the actual statue. You could just pay. to go up the arm.
No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor, 2019-07-26 · listen
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- First Nations · Canada
- East Sussex · United Kingdom
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