Pizza Hut responds after outraged customer says tomato ketchup is too 'sexual'

Pizza Hut responds after outraged customer says tomato ketchup is 'sexualised'

The squeeze bottle has really upset one Pizza Hut customer

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Pizza Hut responds after outraged customer says tomato ketchup is too…

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• BY RORY BENNETT
• 12:39, 2 NOV 2021

Mr Shann is taken aback by the label "sexualising" ketchup (Image: Hull Live/MEN MEDIA)

An outraged customer has expressed shock at Pizza Hut for “sexualising” their ketchup to the point that he felt “put off” using the sauce.
Adrian Shann, 31, reacted with disgust to the words ‘Shake, Squeeze and Squirt” cartoonishly printed on the condiment bottles.

Mr Shann was left in a state of distress after noticing the wording when at a Pizza Hut in Hull last month.

The £23 meal was Mr Shann’s first in the Pizza chain.
He said: "It's not innocent in my eyes. The barbecue sauce one said 'Squeeze', but the ketchup one said that... it put me off using it.

The squeeze bottle has really upset one Pizza Hut customer(Image: WalesOnline )
"It literally sounds like an app for swingers. I do not understand how someone could put that sentence together, it's awful.
"It is because of the chain's marketing aimed at children that I am worried."

Mr Shann said he saw a family joking about the wording, not seeming too bothered by it.
However, he said he believed it wasn’t appropriate to do so: "The adults had a laugh and then the children were asking their parents to tell them about it.




"If I had my niece with me, I would be worried. It's definitely not appropriate."
Mr Shann was so uncomfortable with the words that he made a formal complaint to Pizza Hut and did not initially receive a response.

Pizza Hut is falling victim to a one man crusade(Image: MyLondon)
However, since then, Pizza Hut replied to him via Hull Live and said: "I can only apologise if you were caused any offence or upset on your recent visit to our Hut, please know it is not our intention to make any of our guests feel uncomfortable.
"The wording on our ketchup is not meant to cause offence and sorry if this was interpreted this way.

"This has been the labelling of all ketchup bottles in our restaurants for some time now, and I can only apologise if this impacted the enjoyment of your email."
The angry diner, who was so incensed he contacted his MP about the wording on the bottle, said the food chain’s response was not enough.




"I am not happy with their response,” he said.
He added: "I cannot imagine anyone looking at that sauce as tomato ketchup again.
"It is sexualised and even more so now they didn't deserve my custom.”

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Thank god he didn't see the mayo.

 

[Shroom King]

No matter how mad I get about bullshit in my life, I can feel good knowing that I will never get triggered so hard by a bottle of ketchup that I complain to the fucking government about it.

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

The real crime here is letting anyone who puts ketchup on pizza finish saying anything without hammering their words back through their teeth.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Unfortunately corporate chains are too politically sensitive to say "go fuck yourself, you're the only person who cares, go eat at Panago you limp wristed faggot"

 

[Roybertitos]

Who the fuck eats pizza with ketchup? It's literally slathered in tomato sauce already and he wants to add more to it? This guy from some kind of backwards crazy land where they dip their fries in soy sauce and drizzle vegemite over their sundaes.

 

[Pentex]

I renounce the devil and all of his works.

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[kcbbq]

And the brits say Americans are puritanical prudes...

 

[Billy Beer]

Ymmv but in the UK pizza hut joints I've eaten at, a bowl of ketchup to dip the pizza in, is a must.

I wouldn't so this with any other pizza, anywhere. But for some reason, pizza hut pizza tastes better with Tommy K

 

[Fomo Hoire]

An outraged customer has expressed shock at Pizza Hut for “sexualising” their ketchup to the point that he felt “put off” using the sauce.
Adrian Shann, 31, reacted with disgust to the words ‘Shake, Squeeze and Squirt” cartoonishly printed on the condiment bottles.

Yo dude, if you shake your woman and she squirts... Either you got one kinky lady, or that's not squirt. That's piss. Stop assaulting your lady just because you're horny.

 

[Titos]

Why the fuck is there ketchup at a pizza place? What the fuck is wrong with angloids?

 

[Crazedking]

Why the fuck is there ketchup at a pizza place? What the fuck is wrong with angloids?

sometime you want ketchup with your side of fries that goes with the pizza.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Tell me you're a coomer without telling me you're a coomer.

 

[Drdinnermint]

Poes law writ large. This could literally have come from the onion or newsthump

 

[Red Hood]

...why does Pizza Hut have ketchup at all?

 

[Dysnomia]

After taking a good look at his Twitter I think he's trolling. He loves to sexualize himself and dress up as a thot with balloons for tits. He has no room to criticize innuendos on ketchup bottles.

 

[Prosopagnosia]

That stupid sexy ketchup….

@Dysnomia please share!

 

[The Lawgiver]

...why does Pizza Hut have ketchup at all?

They have some stuff other than pizza so probably as an optional topping thing for a side or some shit.

This situation reminds me of that stint where Wegmans coffee section got renamed to the buzz and some person or group complained about the slogan being too close to a drug abuse reference and they changed it and issued an apology.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Jesus what a faggot. His entire family is shamed for generations.

 

[JULAY]

The most interesting thing is that they're still building the old style Pizza Hut buildings in the UK. The one in my hometown had the same design 40 years ago.