Things You Find in a Bottle of Ketchup
';It could happen to anyone.
A Swedish woman said on Sunday that she had found a penis in a bottle of ketchup.
Does this point to the perceived Swedish obsession with sex? Or rather, does it point to their proclivity to take things apart and put them together again?
Viktoria Ed said she was lucky enough to discover the organ before putting the sauce on her bread rolls, unlike her husband Stefan and their children, Madeleine and Simon.“It looked like a penis, of an adult if it’s human, and medium sized,” she said.
Ms Ed cannot tell whether or not it is human? Perhaps it is that of a part-human part animal hybrid.
It is also good to see that despite her obvious shock, she managed to evaluate the size of the organ. (What is it about the male organ that makes commenting on its size mandatory, whatever the situation?)
But back to the story..
“It’s disgusting. The top of the bottle was intact, as if it had just left the factory. We would like to know how this thing ended up in a ketchup bottle.”
I am willing to fathom a guess. And perhaps there is a clue in the name of the Swedish ketchup distributor:
The Godegaarden brand ketchup was made in Turkey and distributed in Sweden by the company Axfood.
Ouch.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
February 15th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Well it’s a good thing she was LUCKY ENOUGH to discover it. I’m terribly sorry but I’m afraid I have to steal this one.
February 15th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
It’s unfair to stereotype Swedes in that way, though. They are now more “obsessed with sex” than a secular person in other Western societies, no more than a secular Israeli, infact. It is also unfair to compare to USA, where 50 million people are fundemental Christians who don’t practice premarital sex (and obviously manage to influence people around them, to an extent), as well as the various ethnic groups in USA who don’t practice premarital sex. Swedes are lutherans, and most of them are non religious people with your average, modern attitude towards life. I have encountered a lot of people from all over the world in my lifetime. If I were to say that a certain country has more promiscuous inhabitants than others, I would name Americans. Secular American women (at least the ones I’ve known, and I’ve known many, and I am 500% certain that I know more Swedes than you, or any non-Swede who reads this), are often very ready to have numerous sex partners that they don’t know well. More so than Scandinavian women. It’s their choice though…
So anyway. Drop the stereotyping, Dave
February 15th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
I think 9 out of 10 readers would realize that I was not stereotyping, but merely pointing to an unfounded reputation so as to get a cheap laugh. The post was not about Swedes, but rather disgusting things in ketchup. So don’t take it too seriously.
February 16th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Who noticed the “Swedish” part… I was too busy being shocked about the organ found in the condiment bottle… but hey, it could happen in any country, right???