No more squeezing accidents.The new Ketchup packets are coming!

I have always had a thing with the ketchup packets. For starters, they have always been difficult to open. You can never use them in your car. I used to get such anxiety trying to open thoses suckers with my teeth, while driving, while my children were waiting in the back seat to eat. By the time my kids were big enough to open them, the ketchup squirted everywhere. The smell of old ketchup in a car interior is like no other.

Our best ketchup packet squirt story wasn't even in a car. We were at a restaurant in Times Square having lunch before going to The Lion King and my son, after struggling to open a ketchup packet on his own, had it explode and spray all over the back of this lovely woman, dressed in a gorgeous white Chloe cashmere sweater. The fact that it also hit my daughter and my husband in the face was minor. Talk about a major oops.

Being a proud Pittsburgh girl and all, and having taken that awesome Heinz tour in elementary school with the white coated ketchup experts, you can imagine my excitement when the new ketchup pack was unveiled yesterday. It is shaped like a shallow cup. The top can be peeled back for dipping, or the end can be torn off for squeezing. It holds three times as much ketchup as a traditional packet.

F'en brilliant!