FEMALES OUT DUNK MEN IN KETCHUP SURVEY

FEMALES OUT DUNK MEN IN KETCHUP SURVEY

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Women's basketball isn't the only place you'll see female dunkers -- just check out your local hamburger stand. According to a new ketchup survey by Heinz, 61 percent of women prefer to dunk their french fries into ketchup, compared to only 54 percent of men. Other ketchup stats: -- 29 percent of Americans say they stick a knife into the bottle to tease the ketchup out, while 21 percent shake the bottle and 20 percent thump the bottom. -- 22 percent of college-age adults refuse to eat meat loaf unless it's covered with ketchup. -- Finally, the southern United States is the ketchup capital of the country. 14 percent of southerners consider themselves "ketchup maniacs" and dump the sauce on everything.

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