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We also call tomato ketchup just "ketchup" and yet....

Why Is Ketchup Called Ketchup?

One of my shameful secrets as a lover of dips and sauces is that I do not like ketchup. This puts me squarely in the minority in America—ketchup is found in 97 percent of American households. American consumption of french fries and ketchup, in fact, is so high that it skews vegetable...
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By the mid-18th century, ketchup was popular in England, but referred broadly to any type of spiced sauce. Mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, anchovy ketchup, and oyster ketchup all became popular takes on the condiment during the late 18th century and early 19th century in Europe, along with ketchups made from fruits such as peaches, lemons, and plums. Jane Austen’s friend Martha Lloyd documented how the Austen family made walnut ketchup from green walnuts, salt, vinegar, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, horseradish, and shallots in A Jane Austen Household Book. These early, Westernized versions of ketchup, which also sometimes involved beer in the fermentation process, were often amber or even dark brown in color, looking and tasting more like the fish sauces from which they came than the mild tomato-based sauce that’s served alongside French fries and in burgers.
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Oye said:
We also call tomato ketchup just "ketchup" and yet....

Why Is Ketchup Called Ketchup?

One of my shameful secrets as a lover of dips and sauces is that I do not like ketchup. This puts me squarely in the minority in America—ketchup is found in 97 percent of American households. American consumption of french fries and ketchup, in fact, is so high that it skews vegetable...
thetakeout.com
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As President, my first Executive Order would be to ban all ketchup.
 
Yatman said:
What about pickleradish in potato salad and on hot dogs?

And why can't "Pickles" be a pole response like "Tacoes"? They have a lot in common. Not sayin', just sayin'.
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exactly. <3 pickles
 

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