Well, that's definitely an interesting marketing tactic … 

If there was ever a competitor to American's favorite pastime of overeating, there's no doubt it would be hardcore porn.

But despite the impossible popularity of these two hobbies, no one's ever really thought to combine them for a mass marketing scheme … until now. And Heinz, of all companies, was the one to do it. 

The makers of everyone's beloved Red-40 burger goop, is in some deep shit after putting QR codes on Heinz ketchup bottles that linked to a hardcore porn site, making it so consumers could squirt more than just ketchup on their hot dogs. 

Unfortunately, despite the inherent brilliance of the QR code ploy, it was also highly accidental. 

See, between 2012-2014, Heinz ran a special promotion on bottles enabling consumers to design their own label, QR codes and all.

However, after the promotion ended, a very invasive German porn site took over the URL the QR code originally linked to. So, anytime someone cracked open a slightly old bottle of ketchup and scanned the QR code … well let's just say there was a different type of meat being consumed than they expected. It's German porn too, so … some of that meat might have still had fur on it. 

According to a German news site, Heinz apologized to the customer on Facebook saying "We really regret the event very much and we're happy to take your suggestions for how we implement future campaigns on board."

It is unclear how many bottles were printed with the QR code and whether they are still for sale. 

But while this story is certainly enticing and would make even the iciest lad or lady feel like organizing a BBQ, the truth is you don't need a QR code to look at German porn. It's right there in front of you, on the Internet, for the taking.

God bless America.