The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> Oh great Oracle, who knows the unknowable and can extemporize with the
> best of them.  Why are mayonnaise packets so much bigger than ketchup
> packets?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} A longer header, more framing bits, and the data is incompressible.
}
} You owe the Oracle a recipe for TCP/IP burgers.

} Ketchup has a higher density.
}
} Putting mayonnaise in every food gives utter satisfaction.

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Page created on: 12 Apr 2005; last modified: 14 Apr 2005
Page author: Lee K. Seitz (WWW, e-mail)

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