contraband ketchup

Talk about mean, hair-netted
cafeteria ladies. A school in Arizona is limiting the number of ketchup packets students can get for free. After reaching the limit, condiment-craving students must purchase more ketchup.
And I thought ketchup was now a vegetable, according to the government.
The students have been forced to smuggle contraband catsup into the cafeteria. Some enraged kids have taken up a boycott of the school's food in reaction.
What's going on here?
Give the kids more of that red stuff to perk up that extra bland assembly line meal.