Collinsville landmark, a giant ketchup bottle

Ketchup comes in handy with various food items. Fries go with ketchup. Burgers can be made more tasty with ketchup. Even meatloaf tastes delicious with this condiment. But, people who like ketchup were not quit ready for this big daddy of ketchup bottles.

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Exactly how big is it? Well try 8 foot tall and 4 foot wide plastic ketchup bottle.This was recently made in the Southern Illinois community in collaboration with the H.J. Heinz Co. Wow! I never heard anything like this before. Wonder where all the ketchup is going to go. A Heinz spokeswoman was rather shocked when she heard about this project. Tracey Parson said:

That’s a lot of ketchup!

In order to make this thing, the Heinz ketchup company donated about 4000 glass bottles. These were made available for a dollar.The idea behind this: To let people by these bottles and pour it in the huge plastic structure.

This bottle is mounted on a 170ft. tall water tower. This water tower was built back in 1949 by W.E.Caldwell company, and mostly meant for G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant.

The giant ketchup bottle will be left in the Southern Illinois town. This was once home to the Ketchup factory. The very interesting piece of roadside creation sort of looms over the entire town of Colinsville, making the contributors proud.


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