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Here’s your Friday how to. You can thank us later. Like after you’ve maximized the true square footage of the tiny ketchup condiment cups. Happy fry-dunking y’all.

Read about this mind-blowing nugget of information on Eli Ayrouth’s Foodbeast blog. Apparently you just pull the upper ring out to fan the cup into a LARGER cup. Who knew? Ayrouth’s friend, the one who passed on this genius tip, that’s who.

the old/wrong way:

the new/right way:

BAM!

This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2012.

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The REAL Way to Use Ketchup Cups: It will blow your mind!

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 10, 2012

<h1>The REAL Way to Use Ketchup Cups: It will blow your mind!</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />August 10, 2012</p> <p><strong>Here's your Friday <em>how to</em>. </strong>You can thank us later. Like after you've maximized the true square footage of the tiny ketchup condiment cups. Happy fry-dunking y'all.</p> <p>Read about this mind-blowing nugget of information on <a href="http://foodbeast.com/content/2012/08/01/so-apparently-weve-been-using-ketchup-cups-all-wrong/" target="_blank">Eli Ayrouth's Foodbeast blog</a>. Apparently you <strong>just pull the upper ring out to fan the cup into a LARGER cup. </strong>Who knew? Ayrouth's friend, the one who passed on this genius tip, that's who.</p> <p>the old/wrong way:</p> <p><img title="wrong" src="http://cdn.foodbeast.com.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ketchup-wrong.jpg" alt="wrong" width="600" height="318" /></p> <p>the new/right way:</p> <p><img title="right!" src="http://cdn.foodbeast.com.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/foodbeast-ketchup-fanning.jpg" alt="right!" width="600" height="366" /></p> <p>BAM!</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-real-way-to-use-ketchup-cups-it-will-blow-your-mind-2178730/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=20689&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-real-way-to-use-ketchup-cups-it-will-blow-your-mind-2178730/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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