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MayoKetchup, Pink Sauce, Golf Sauce, Fry Sauce.....Mayochup?

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What's in a sauce? Apparently much, at least when beloved condiments are involved. 

Last month Heinz released a video on social media teasing the release of a new product, Mayochup. The product is a mix of ketchup and mayonnaise. 

The response was mixed. Some people were happy two of their favorite condiments would soon be found in one bottle, but others expressed discontent with Heinz releasing a product they felt lacked originality. 

The Miami Herald's Food and Dining Editor Carlos Frias said many Latin American and Caribbean countries "laid claim" to being the place of origin for mixing the two condiments into one sauce. But he said the mix is also the basis for Russian and Thousand Island dressing, which have been used by Americans for generations.

"We can safely say that it's been around long enough where we don't have to come up with a new name for it like Mayochup," said Frias. " I don't know about you, but Mayochup sounds like an embarrassing bodily noise." 

Although the sauce is made of two simple ingredients, there is an array of ways the sauce is consumed. 

At the Venezuelan-Peruvian fusion restaurant  Bocas House Coral Gables, Chef Gabriel Chavez said the restaurants adds one-third of ketchup to two-thirds of mayonnaise, then adds a small amount of Sriracha hot sauce to give the sauce a spicy kick at the end. 

When the topic was brought up in our newsroom, a debate quickly ensued on the best ketchup to mayonnaise ratio and the best food to eat it with. 

Mashed fried green plantains  (called tostones), french fries and burgers were the most agreed upon food items to be consumed with the sauce. 

In South Korea, fellow WLRN intern Danny Huang said he encountered a recipe for a ketchup-mayonnaise sauce on the back of a shrimp chip bag as a recommendation to "best enjoy the chip, they called it K-yonnaise," he said. 

Last year, Huang was eating fish and chips while visiting a friend in London. His friend told Huang that mixing ketchup and mayonnaise would make a great sauce for their meal. 

Those willing to give Heinz's Mayochup a try will have to wait until later this year when it's scheduled to be distributed to grocery stores. In the meantime, it seems the best strategy is to stick with old-school rules and keep on mixing ketchup and mayo by hand. 

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