Is there any truth to this? I got a text that said?

Question

Do not use any table condiments, an HIV infected man was caught putting his blood in ketchup.

EWW.....

Is this true? Have you heard anything about this?

Answer 1

doesnt have to be hiv to be nasty   play it safe use the packets

Answer 2

Might be true. People are capable of all kinds of nasty *** stuff.  If you are worried about it just don't use ketchup.

Answer 3

Sounds like someone was playing a terrible practical joke on you.   This sounds really implausible.

I personally don't use the ketchup in restaurants because we were eating out once and there was a little boy at another table sticking his tongue in the ketcup bottle while his parents were completely oblivious to what he was doing.  You never know what's in those things!  I really doubt you'd find HIV infected blood though.

Answer 4

Nasty!!! Sounds like this was an April Fool's (bad)joke.

The Muse

Answer 5

I have not heard of this, and if it is true it would be so nasty!. However I'd be shell-shocked, if it were true. I don't think it is.  I'm not sure why any person would do this, and it seems more  of an urban myth. However, even if it was true, HIV virus does not survive well outside the body, so placing it in the ketchup, and another person eating it, then contracting the virus would be very remote. I think its  a spin off of the HIV put in theater seats myth.

Answer 6

Well, here is what I think:

FALSE! I mean, it depends where you live...because I dont think that this man is gonna go all around the united states to every ketchup factory and doint this. I bet it was just some kind of joke or something! so, dont believe it!

Answer 7

Don't eat ketchup from the bottle and you won't have to worry about it. Just use packets. I'm not surprised by the lady that said a little kid was sticking his mouth on the bottle. People are disgusting. I avoid using things that have been used by other people I don't know.

As for the text message, people like making things up, and they like spreading bogus rumors because it entertains them. It's the same reason that people like to talk about how disasters might happen, and other impending doom type things. It entertains and excites them. My former mother in law once forwarded an email saying that you shouldn't buy gas, because an HIV-infected man had filled up a bunch of syringes with his blood and put them on gas pump handles so you would get infected when you pumped gas.

Have you ever seen a gas pump? There's no way someone could fit a syringe into the handle so that you wouldn't see it and it would inject you when you were trying to pump gas. People just like to spread crazy rumors.

Answer 8

The HIV virus wouldn't live anyways, it weaken with air contact and would dry out. So even if it is true its not gonna hurt you.

Answer 9

i think it was just one of those hoax text.

if that was true there would have been a HUGE recall and all over the news.

so go ahead and dip the frys!

Answer 10

I know that this applies more to emails, but I always give Snopes a look whenever something sounds suspicious like that.