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battle_sight_zero
10-12-2012, 20:24
Just went out with the family to a local restaurant. Ordered my son a kid menu hamburger plate. The waiter comes with the dinner and the standard ketchup and mustard bottles. Go to put some ketchup on the burger and notice that the bottle is expanding in my hand, the bottle cap then explodes off the bottle and sends stuff flying all over the place. Turns out some ASSW78pe put something carbonated in the ketchup to make it explode. Whatever it was, made the ketchup pink and bubbly and contaminated 4 other dinners at the table. What a very jacked up person to do such a thing. Some people are just so whacked in the head these days. Kind of makes me worried about what people are doing to these routine restaurant condiments.
SideShow Bob
10-12-2012, 20:35
Hopefully the restaurant comped your party.
sniper7
10-12-2012, 20:39
they probably thought it was hilarious. Sorry you had to deal with it, hopefully it didn't make a mess of your clothes and you got new dinners
merl
10-12-2012, 20:39
once you pull the pin, Mr Grenade is not your friend :)
ChunkyMonkey
10-12-2012, 20:42
It's the baking soda in ketchup prank. It's beyond stupid.
Ah Pook
10-12-2012, 20:44
Hopefully the restaurant comped your party.
Looks like he condimented the party.


Sorry I had to.

Which local restaurant? I have had bad ketchup before that exploded out of the bottle.
hghclsswhitetrsh
10-12-2012, 20:46
That's sucks bro.
battle_sight_zero
10-12-2012, 20:54
The place was El Paral in Littleton, and they did take care of us. Dinners were taken an replaced. The baking soda makes sense.
Ah Pook
10-12-2012, 21:16
The place was El Paral in Littleton, and they did take care of us. Dinners were taken an replaced. The baking soda makes sense.
I thought you meant local Boulder. Glad they took care of you, properly.
Singlestack
10-12-2012, 21:34
That must have looked like a scene in Scarface when it went off. Glad it worked out.

Singlestack
WETWRKS
10-13-2012, 02:57
Sorry but I had to laugh at this. If anything can go wrong with condements it probably has happened to me. In one trip to Wyoming and back I had something like 4 different things like this happen including having a 2 or 3 year old throw a glass bottle of ketchup and hit me in the back of the head with it. I wore ketchup at least twice that trip and had one flow out of a bottle like a volcano. Sat there and watched it flow most of the meal.
Clint45
10-13-2012, 05:52
The baking soda makes sense.

Only if it was done in the kitchen by an employee. That reaction takes place in about 60 seconds.
Byte Stryke
10-13-2012, 07:59
Only if it was done in the kitchen by an employee. That reaction takes place in about 60 seconds.


being the geek I am, if you place the baking soda in an open ended packet, open end up. The Process will not start until someone inverts the bottle.

party one sets it up, leaves the table. Wait staff cleans up the table and puts everything up. You come along, get the bottle and SHAKE IT, starting chemical process.

Seriously, subconsciously we always shake the condiment bottles.
Guylee
10-13-2012, 08:56
That is in no way absolutely hilarious and I am not laughing hysterically.
battle_sight_zero
10-13-2012, 08:59
being the geek I am, if you place the baking soda in an open ended packet, open end up. The Process will not start until someone inverts the bottle.

party one sets it up, leaves the table. Wait staff cleans up the table and puts everything up. You come along, get the bottle and SHAKE IT, starting chemical process.

Seriously, subconsciously we always shake the condiment bottles.



I appreciate jokes at work or by family members, but putting something in someones(someone you dont know) food before they eat is not cool. If that stuff would not have exploded my son may have ate it on his hamburger. Thinking about it now: watching the bottle expand in my hand for those seconds should have prompted me to toss it.
SouthPaw
10-13-2012, 09:12
The vinegar in the ketchup plus the baking soda makes a mess. Always check the salt, pepper, parm cheese lids, etc before shaking them on your food. Kids will put the lid on just enough so when you tip it over the lids falls off. Another thing they used to do in high school was put a bunch of salt in the parm cheese shaker. You can imagine what your pizza tasted like once you put it on your food.

This is probably a dumb question but did you shake the ketchup bottle and then it started to expand or were you handed an already expanding bottle? I am almost wondering if it was an employee there that did it.