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The great ketchup war of 2016 will go down as one of Canada’s most over-processed, anti-climatic wars of all time. Tensions had been brewing between Heinz ketchup loyalists and French’s ketchup revolutionaries for only three weeks or so before intervention from a third party — one Loblaw Companies Limited — brought the conflict to a head on Monday. On that day, French’s president told the media that Loblaws had stopped selling its product, which had, for a number of weeks, experienced a surge in sales thanks to a viral Facebook post that urged consumers to buy French’s instead of Heinz.

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That Facebook post noted that French’s makes its ketchup using tomatoes from Leamington, Ont., whereas Heinz had shut down its Leamington operation in 2014 and moved its ketchup production to the U.S. In response to that post, patriotic condiment-lovers vowed to switch their allegiances from Heinz to French’s, and looked to their local grocers to act on their fidelity to Canada. But French’s was nowhere to be found on Loblaws’ shelves: it was being phased out, according to the company, because of poor sales. This news incited the masses, which expressed its discontent with 140-character social media attacks, and by Tuesday afternoon, Loblaws had capitulated, announcing it would stock French’s ketchup in its stores once more.