Can we talk about how 90% of ketchup bottles have the same cap design flaw?

I was at a cookout last weekend and noticed almost every ketchup bottle I picked up had dried crusty stuff stuck in the cap threads. After cleaning three bottles, I looked it up and found out it's because the cap design hasn't changed since the 1980s - most brands still use that same shallow thread pattern. A food science blog I read said roughly 15% of ketchup gets wasted globally just from this clogging issue. Has anyone else found a bottle that actually solves this, or do we just deal with it?

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jason_lewis319d ago

Same deal here, it's like they don't even try.

murphy.aaron19d ago

Disagree, I’ve never had that problem with bottles.

the_alice19d ago

Huh, really? I saw a thread the other day where people were saying the opposite happens with aluminum.