There has been  great deal of media coverage recently about “ketchup patriotism”.

 

In 2014, Heinz moved ketchup production to the United States and shut down its Leamington, ON plant putting almost 750 employees and many local tomato growers out of work.

 

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/international/town-where-the-tomato-is-king-rallies-to-save-its-heinz-plant.html?emc=edit_th_20151230&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=67505919&_r=0

 

So while Heinz ketchup (for dipping french fries, for stirring into a bowl of cheese-and-mac lunch, or for slathering on top of a slice of just-out-of-the-oven meatloaf) is no longer made in Canada, our country’s rule that tomato juice must be made from fresh tomatoes, not paste, saved jobs at the Leamington plant, the farmers who supply it with fresh tomatoes, and the town of Leamington itself whose citizens took over the plant.

 

And now French’s has decided to make ketchup at Leamington from Canadian tomatoes.