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Church creates giant ketchup packet

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COLLINSVILLE, Ill., July 31 (UPI) -- An Illinois church that created what is believed to be the world's largest ketchup packet must now decide what to do with it.

The H.J. Heinz Co. donated 4,000 16-ounce bottles of sticky red ketchup to the Son Life Church in Collinsville for the event. Thousands of people were willing to pay $1 Saturday for the privilege of pouring one of the bottles into a vat so it could be pumped into the 8-foot by 4-foot packet designed by a Chicago company.

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"This is a great way to be a part of our community," David Amsden, the church's senior pastor, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I love it."

The church has set up a Web site, www.worldslargestketchuppacket.com, to commemorate its feat and asks visitors to vote on what to do with the packet, estimated to weigh about 1,000 pounds. The five choices are: Call David Letterman and see if we can throw it off his roof, Have a monster truck run over it, Donate it to Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Keep it for posterity's sake and Put it up for auction.

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The church is also seeking recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records, which now has no champion condiment containers.

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