Stompin' Tom Connors and Us

Hi. I'm Charles the Bear Cub. You know me. I live on Sparkle Road with my buddy, James. He's really old. He was the second Canadian to get off Noah's Ark, you know.

Chance and me are hanging out at the Heinz store in Leamington. I know where Leamington is. It's out in the county. Essex County is in Ontario and Ontario is in O Canada our home and native land.

We're having fun with our buddy Dennis. Dennis is in charge of the stories about ketchup. That's a pretty important job, you know.  I l-o-v-e ketchup, don't you? I love stories about ketchup. Dennis tells the bestest stories.

People make lots of ketchup in Leamington. They make Heinz ketchup. There are no other kinds once you've tasted Heinz. it's the biggest ketchup factory in the world. It's pretty big.

Oh. Wait! Chance lives with us, too. He's a newborn cubby someone left in a basket on our doorstep. He's a wee little thing. I look after Chance, too. He's a handful! Chance likes ketchup, too. Chance doesn't have any teeth 'cuz he's so newborn. He just drinks condensed owl's milk out of his bottle. He tries to drink ketchup. He's a silly little cubby. He doesn't know any better.

Know what? Chance and me know a song about ketchup. Stompin' Tom wrote it. Miss Jackie taught us to sing The Ketchup Song at the Scruffy Maple Day Care Centre. She has a beautiful voice. I think Miss Jackie might be a princess, you know.

Here's The Ketchup Song. When we sing it we pretend we're Stompin' Tom only we call ourselves Stompin' Charles and Stompin' Chance.

There was a guy from PEI they used to call potato,
He met this young Leamington, Ontario tomato, 
But he had eyes for other girls and she was a little mushy,
 So he said, "Lets get wed, there's no sense being fussy."

Big size french fries how they love tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup
Ketchup loves potatoes, Ketchup loves potatoes.
Well he went down to Windsor town to buy a ring on Monday
Saturday they said okay we'll cut the cake on Sunday
But Sunday came and what a shame
they had no one to fetch it
Without a cake they just sat and ate potato chips and ketchup

Big size french fries how they love tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup
Ketchup loves potatoes, Ketchup loves potatoes

And so this guy form PEI they used to call potato
He's got two boys and a little girl, two spuds and one tomato
They romp and run around Leamington and boy when they get hungry
The bottle drips all over the chips way down in Ketchup country

Big size french fries how they love tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup
Ketchup loves potatoes, Ketchup loves potatoes

 Oh. Wait! Did you hear that? James is hollering, "Where are my handsome bear cubs? Where are my Sons of Windsor? Where are my Princes of Ontario? That's me! Charles! That's Chance! We're handsome bear cubs. We're Sons of Windsor and Princes of Ontario! We gotta go find James so we can get our ears tickled and our noses kissed. 

 This is me, Charles the Bear Cub saying, "Be good citizens. Eat French fries with Heinz ketchup on top.  Oh! Wait! Come over to our house and play with us! We can have a party with ketchup and French fries! Okay! Over and out!"

Visiting the Heinz Store

Hi. I'm Charles the Bear Cub. You know me. I live on Sparkle Road with my buddy, Grandpa James. He's really old. He was the second Canadian to get off Noah's Ark, you know.

Look at us. We're wearing Heinz caps. We got Heinz mugs, too. A Heinz mug can hold cocoa and there's room for newborn baby marshmallows on top.

 Oh. Wait! Chance lives with us, too. He's a newborn cubby someone left in a basket on our doorstep. He's a wee little thing. I look after Chance, too. He's a handful!

Know where we are? We're at the Heinz factory in Leamington. That's in the county. Chance and me got to ride in Auntie Gwen's car all the way here.








Know what they make at Heinz? They make ketchup. Lots and lots of ketchup. Making ketchup is  a very important job, you know. I could be a Master Ketchup Maker when I grow up. They make lots of other things but ketchup is my favouritest food. James says, "There are no other kinds once you've tasted Heinz." It rhymes, you know.

  I l-o-v-e ketchup. Ketchup is yummy and sticky and that's two of the four food groups in Canada's Food Guide, you know. Chance is trying to drink ketchup. We don't drink ketchup. We put ketchup on French fries and Shepherd's Pie and hot dogs, too.

Oh! Look! Our buddy Dennis has a really BIG bottle of ketchup. He's going to pour ketchup all over us!




Dennis says ketchup will help us grow up big and strong. I'll eat ketchup every day! Only Heinz.



Dennis knows the Heinz story. The nice people in Leamington have been making ketchup and other good foods for more than 100 years. That's really old. I bet Heinz is almost as old as Grandpa James! Chance climbed up on top of the Heinz sign in the canteen. "My son! Come down from there this instant!" He's stuck, so I have to get him down. He really is a handful, you know.

This is our buddy Miss Diana. Diana gives us hugs and she kisses our noses, too. She works in the canteen. Miss Diana has a very important job. She feeds the workers so they can make more ketchup. You know what? This is the biggest ketchup factory in the world. It's really, really big!

Oh. Wait! Did you hear that? Grandpa James is hollering, "Where are my handsome bear cubs? Where are my Sons of Windsor? Where are my Princes of Ontario? That's me! Charles! That's Chance! We're handsome bear cubs. We're Sons of Windsor and Princes of Ontario! We gotta go find Grandpa James so we can get our ears tickled and our noses kissed.

 This is me, Charles the Bear Cub saying, "Be good citizens. Eat all your ketchup. Then you can come to Leamington with us and we can hang out with our buddies Miss Diana and Dennis. Okay! Over and out!"