Squirtable food. Why?

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There seems to be a creeping, deeply unpleasant tendency for sauces to come in squirtable form. Mustard was the first to go, followed by mint sauce. Presumably it's a great wheeze for the manufacturers because they can claim that they need to add more water to make their stuff runny. I went to get a pot of Marmite earlier this evening. That's gone squirtable too. There's a repulsive rubber sphincter on the nozzle.

Is there any way of fighting back against this trend? I know that kindergarten pupils like squirty food, but do we all have to be subjected to this infantilism?

 

[classic33]

Heinz EZ Squirt Funky Purple Ketchup. From the 90's

 

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Maybe it all started with aerosol cream all those years ago. It won't be long before we are all sucking up some tasteless bland slurry that faintly resembles baby food. Teeth will have come entirely redundant.

 

[tyred]

Brown sauce of the Gods.

But if the bottle is half empty it is almost impossible to put a dollop on your chips and you will be sitting thumping the bottom of the bottle and wishing you had bought something in a squeezy bottle!

 

[T4tomo]

Squirty golden syrup is less messy than the tins and easier to measure out when baking with it.

Just saying....

 

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Brown sauce of the Gods.

But if the bottle is half empty it is almost impossible to put a dollop on your chips and you will be sitting thumping the bottom of the bottle and wishing you had bought something in a squeezy bottle!

I don't count that as squirtable. It's got a decent-sized neck, not a miserable hole.

 

[Accy cyclist]

That aerosol cream IS full of air. If you leave it for a while it breaks down into something like cream mixed into water. The nozzle also has to be washed after use. If you don't, the next time you use it you'll find the nozzle full of black fungus.

 

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Squirty golden syrup is less messy than the tins and easier to measure out when baking with it.

Just saying....

Have they still got the lion on the bottle? I suppose that would be some kind of small compensation for an inferior runny product.

 

[tyred]

I don't count that as squirtable. It's got a decent-sized neck, not a miserable hole.

That's the point. It is a glass bottle (although now available in squirtable ones). It is a very thick sauce and very nice but almost impossible to get it out of the bottle. The squirtable bottles are much easier to use so have become more popular so I consider it progress (although the glass one can be recycled/re-used).

 

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That's the point. It is a glass bottle (although now available in squirtable ones). It is a very thick sauce and very nice but almost impossible to get it out of the bottle. The squirtable bottles are much easier to use so have become more popular so I consider it progress (although the glass one can be recycled/re-used).

Yebbut, if they have to alter the sauce to make it more runny so it can squeeze out of a miserably small hole, surely that's a step too far?

 

[tyred]

Yebbut, if they have to alter the sauce to make it more runny so it can squeeze out of a miserably small hole, surely that's a step too far?

I don't see that it matters a great deal so long as the taste is the same.

 

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I don't see that it matters a great deal so long as the taste is the same.

Do you like watered down beer too?

 

[T4tomo]

Have they still got the lion on the bottle? I suppose that would be some kind of small compensation for an inferior runny product.

 

[classic33]

Squirty golden syrup is less messy than the tins and easier to measure out when baking with it.

Just saying....

Stand the tin in warm water first. Squirty Golden Syrup, heathen

 

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Splendid! There is hope...