What do you do when you’re traveling and see something so offensive it makes you want to return home immediately? One man’s solution was to take it to TikTok.
Traveling in Canada, Az (@itsazyo) spotted an impossibly perfect-looking bakery confection. But upon closer inspection, what looked like a chocolate chip cookie was a something called a ketchup-chip cookie. The video got over 2 million views.
The Internet Has Questions
In text written across the screen, the TikToker writes, “Bruh, this is the last time I come to Canada I swear what’s wrong with y’all?”
The comments section, though often being the spot to get answers, is confused this time, too.
“Are these like balls of solidified ketchup or the ketchup flavored potato chips? Lol,” asked one viewer.
Others are appalled at the audacity of ketchup. “Anything labeled with ketchup is a health hazard bro [sobbbing emoji],” said another.
Then Canada waded into the chat. “I promise Im Canadian and I don’t eat s____ like that I eat poutine,” a third claimed.
But there are a few folks who confessed to enjoying something savory with their sweet snack.
TikToker @zuzu_rcse said, “It sounds rancid but with how sweet ketchup is it would probably work tbh.”
“I’d try it [shrugging emoji] these seem like kitchen sink cookies,” another admitted.
Everything And The Ketchup Chips?
In the video, the camera gets close enough to the cookies’ description to see that in addition to “Canada’s favorite ketchup chips.” The cookie has chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips in it, too.
Perhaps the flavor combination is irresistible. But the real question remains: What is a ketchup chip, and what do you do with it?
First off, the ketchup chips in the cookie are not ketchup that has been reduced to a solid and turned into a sticky ketchup-flavored chunk. They are, per Vancouver is Awesome, ketchup-flavored potato chips. And they’re crumbled up on top of the cookie. They are also, as the comments section attests, too, one of Canada’s favorite flavored chips.
A creation of the Vancouver-based Breka Bakery and Cafe, the cookies are a tribute to Canada. They were made to celebrate Canada Day, celebrated on July 1. Canada Day marks the day in 1867 when the British North America Act was signed, creating the country. It is a Canadian national holiday, not unlike Bastille Day or the Fourth of July, but with less revolution and more diplomacy.
The Founding Of Canada
Unlike America, Canada didn’t endure a bloody revolution to secure its status as an independent nation. Though the territory did fight against Great Britain several times, it lost.
During the American War of Independence, George Washington and other revolutionaries urged Canadians to join the rebellion, saying they came “not to plunder, but to protect you.” In 1775 (as in 2025), “Most Canadians rejected the proposal, though some did enlist in the fight for American independence.”
But the Revolutionary War did directly benefit Canada. Because though at the time of the American War, and for some time after it was still under the control of Great Britain, the British took a lesson away. No more taxation.
The memory of the American Revolution in combination with two 1837-’38 mini-rebellions in Canada, resulted in a visit from John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham. Lord Durham, nicknamed “Radical Jack,” authored a report insisting “that the only way to keep the colonies was to let them govern themselves as they wished.” This laid the foundation for Canada’s unification (Ontario and Quebec) and independence. All largely accomplished through a series of legal maneuvers.
The last nationally binding tie to Britain was cut by Canada in the early 1980s. The Canada Act “made Canada wholly independent, ending all vestiges of British control, and responsible for changes to its own constitution.”
Signed on March 25, 1982, the day is not commemorated with a statutory holiday. Maybe it’s time for a Canada Act cookie too.
BroBible reached out to Breka Bakery and Cafe via its contact form and to Itsazyo via a comment on the post. We will update this if either respond.