When it comes to Ketchup, it’s either Heinz or nothing, and
I’m looking at you, Hunt’s! Daddies Ketchup apparently is a real brand in the
United Kingdom and this artist seems to be evoking the spirit of Andy Warhol
reproducing commercial art. This giant ketchup bottle balloon is an inflatable
and is part of the Common Ground Art Exhibit at City Hall Park, which is right
near the WTC Path.
I’m trying to conceptualize what Irish Ketchup might be
like. Non-American ketchup, that’s just not right. But I am actually 25 percent
Irish and enjoy ketchup on hot dogs, which on those of Irish descent seem to
understand. There’s no apostrophe so it
is not the recommended condiment of a specific Daddy, but the ketchup of all fathers
and father figures. The guy on the label resembles William F. Buckley.
Daddies Ketchup is by Paul McCarthy. I am not sure what
social significance it inspires, but a giant ketchup bottle amongst the green
branches of summer is pretty funny in a when ketchup attacks kind of way.
Catsup is scarier though.
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