Tomatoes are a weird food. Yes, they are technically a fruit because of how they grow and house their seeds in the middle, just like apples and oranges. But, from a flavor perspective, tomatoes function more like a veggie, playing well with carrots, peppers, and many other vegetables. So, that’s why the news that Heinz and Smoothie King are teaming up to create a tomato-based smoothie with ketchup weirdness.

This sounds like a very unfunny joke, but it is not. Heinz describes it as the first of its kind which “blends real fruits with Heinz Simply Tomato Ketchup to create a delicious and refreshing summer sip.” The name for it is simple: Heinz Tomato Ketchup Smoothie.

I guess, if you think about it, ketchup itself is sort of like a distant cousin to a tomato smoothie. If you’re wonderin

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