UNITED STATES - AUGUST 22: Heinz ketchup packets are shown in New York on Monday, August 22, 2005. H.J. Heinz Co., the world's biggest ketchup maker, said first-quarter profit fell 19 percent on expenses to cut jobs and sell businesses. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
<p><a class=" xil3i" tabindex="0" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roomies/">#Roomies</a>, you may have to start going in that drawer full of condiments, if you want some ketchup.</p>
<p>Folks have been ordering in so much that there is a <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/?s=pandemic&;post_type=post">shortage of ketchup packets</a>, across the country.</p>
<p>According to <a class="notranslate" tabindex="0" href="https://www.instagram.com/cnn/">@cnn</a>, restaurants are having a hard time keeping condiments, specifically ketchup packets, in stock. This is reportedly because people are ordering in more due to the pandemic.</p>
<p><a class="notranslate" tabindex="0" href="https://www.instagram.com/cnn/">@cnn</a> also reports that Heinz—the largest ketchup producer in the country— is in the middle of the chaos.</p>
<p>The company is working to add “manufacturing lines that will increase production by about 25% for a total of more than 12 billion packets a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We made strategic manufacturing investments at the start of the pandemic to keep up with the surge in demand for ketchup packets driven by the accelerated delivery and take-out trends; at the same time, we also fast-tracked future-focused culinary and packaging innovations, as well as further manufacturing expansion<strong> </strong>plans,&#8221; said Steve Cornell, president of Kraft Heinz&#8217;s enhancers, specialty and away from home business unit,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com">CNN</a> reports.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.wsj.com">Wall Street Journal</a>, some people are actually selling their online ketchup packets amid the pandemic. &#8220;An Indianapolis woman who sold off 20 packets for $8 dollars (reasonable!) and a man from Illinois that tried selling single packets off for $4 each (???). According to the Journal, the latter’s listing read: &#8216;There’s a shortage. Don’t try to lowball me, I know what I’ve got,'&#8221; <a href="https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-black-market-for-ketchup-packets-now-1846689465">Gizmodo</a> reports.</p>
<p>If it&#8217;s one thing for sure, we all know someone with an unlimited supply of ketchup stored somewhere.</p>
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