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The Ketchup Bottle That Squirts a String Instead

the string is the sauce

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The Ketchup Bottle That Squirts a String Instead

A squeeze bottle loaded with a red cord. Aim it at someone, squeeze, and something red comes out very fast.

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  • prank
  • ketchup
  • gag gift
  • dinner table
  • classic gag
  • practical joke

What Is This Thing?

A red squeeze bottle of the kind found in every diner, loaded not with sauce but with a long red cord attached inside. Aim it at someone, squeeze, and the cord shoots out of the nozzle in a fast red arc.

For about half a second it is indistinguishable from a bottle of ketchup being emptied onto a person.

Why You Don't Need It

It is a bottle that cannot hold ketchup. Whatever condiment situation you had before, this does not address it.

The cord also has to be fed back in by hand after every use, which is the least funny part of the object and takes longer than the joke.

Why You'll Buy It Anyway

Because the reaction is involuntary and immediate. Nobody stops to evaluate the situation. They flinch, they look at their shirt, and then they work out what happened — and that half-second gap is the entire product.

It is a genuinely old gag and it still works, which is worth something on a site full of things that work once.

The Ketchup Bottle That Squirts a String Instead — photograph 2

Who It's Actually For

Dinner tables, cafés, and families who eat together often enough for a second bottle to go unnoticed. It is a standard April Fools' item and a reliable one.

It is also the rare prank that is completely clean. Nothing spills, nothing stains, nothing needs wiping up afterwards.

before you click buy

The illusion depends on context. On a table with other condiments it is convincing; held out in the open by someone grinning, it is not.

The cord is attached at one end and pulls back in, which is the design working as intended rather than a fault. Check whether the listing is for one bottle or a pair, since both are sold at similar prices.

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