Why Counterfeit Ketchup Is Exploding in New Jersey  In a
warehouse in New Jersey, some messy, weird stuff went down.
There was an explosion, but not just any explosion: a
counterfeit ketchup explosion. No, nobody was trying to sabotage
the illicit shipment, there's some science behind it.
Admittedly there are some other questions here? Why counterfeit
ketchup? The plan was to put cheap, standard Heinz into bottle
for the more expensive "Simply Heinz" and sell it at a profit.
Why mess with bottle switching instead of counterfeiting labels?
Who knows. Why are they exploding, on the other hand, is a
little simpler to explain.  By transferring the condiment from
one bottle to another, the hapless counterfeiters opened the
ketchup up to contamination by all kinds of microbes. But how is
that any different from standard bottling? Well in a legitimate
bottling operation, you kill those microbes with heat first. And
as for why unrefrigerated bottles of ketchup don't explode on
restaurant tables, they're being opened