Hashish and chips? Dutch fast food shops to serve cannabis mayonnaise

Diners at Manneken Pis in Amsterdam will be able to dip their Flemish fries in the sauce

Yay!

The condiment has been made without tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC – the active ingredient that makes cannabis users feel chilled out and sometimes hallucinate.

Boooo!

Playing ketchup: China grabs share of tomato production

Tomatoes do not feature in the Chinese national diet yet the country now grows more tomatoes for processing than anywhere except California. 

Once mashed into basic paste they are shipped mainly to Europe in industrial quantities to be processed into favourites such as puree, passata, ketchup, pasta sauce and salsa.

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Michael Jordan’s ‘McJordan’ 1992 McDonald’s Sauce Hits Ebay for $10K

Jordan and McDonald’s launched the McJordan Burger in 1992. The all-star sandwich consisted of a quarter-pound beef patty with onions, pickles, cheese and bacon and a special barbecue sauce made specifically for the McJordan. The burger was sold at limited franchises around the US for a limited time that year. 

Nearly 20 years later, a posting on Ebay brought back the 90s in the form of a unopened, one gallon jug of special McJordan barbecue sauce. The going price? $9,995.

Staten Island teen with mayonnaise jar full of marijuana finds he cannot outrun a horse

Is Britain bootlegging Pickapeppa sauce?

When the food firm WANIS lost their rights to import the delicious pickapeppa sauce they thought outside of the box by recreating their own version of the recipe, printing fake labels and selling about 30,000 bottles of the counterfeit sauce over the course of 16 months throughout Britain.

From Wikipedia:

Pickapeppa sauce is a Jamaican condiment similar to A1 or Worcestershire sauce, but with a sweeter, mellower flavor. It is sometimes described as “Jamaican ketchup” or “Jamaican A-1”.

Assault ‘n’ vinegar: Shopkeeper fights off armed robbers with condiment

As he got to the till, Mr Hussain reached down and picked up a full bottle of Sarsons vinegar from a lower shelf.  “I just shouted and they ran out of the door.  “It was all over in 20 seconds,” he revealed.

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