Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for April 14, 2018

This comic brought to you by the “food science” people at TLC.

Will the Gravity be the same for the New Heinz Ketch Mayo??

Like all true superheroes, he is wearing his underwear as outerwear.

Chalk that one under two giant leaps for mankind…

His is NOT picking his nose!

I’m old enough to remember those distant days when flipping water bottles was a thing.

I notice manufacturers put the labels on now so that grocers won’t get confused about how to stock ketchup on their shelves.

It’s been done…

And the world was never the same…

Back in the late 70s or early 80s, the manufacturers of paper matchbooks held a contest to find a way to make the Strike Here strip at the bottom of the opening safer. It seems the “Close Cover Before Striking” reminder wasn’t good enough to keep people from accidentally setting the entire book ablaze with a stray spark.

I have no idea how many entries were received or even if there was a declared winner, but I do know that the solution eventually adopted was to simply move the strip to the CLOSED side of the book, where sparks couldn’t hit any raw matches.

Someone holding the patent is making a lot of money from the royalties. My condiments to you, sir.

A man called Paul Brown developed a special valve that released the contents of the bottle when its sides are pressed. His invention was bought by various companies, including Heinz who added it to the new upside-down bottle. Back in 1995 Brown sold his company and his invention brought him $13 million.

But we know it was really OPUS.

Gravity depravity.

Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku: Good work, you beat me to the explanation. I’ve been using Brown’s bottles for years for BBQ sauces, Mayo and lots of other thick condiments. You can buy them on Amazon. It did seem to take the bottlers quite a while to bring them to the grocery shelves.

Luckily, Opus the penguin is not the Hope of Mankind. (Of course, neither is Milo Bloom….)

Jim and Barb know that ketchup has natural mellowing agents that reduce the stress in penguins. These are the good times, so let your spirits riseTake some time to relax, and you’ll feel niceLife is flowing like ketchup on your fries

I miss the old non-manic, non-Garfield-eyes Opus. :-(