A curious question ! Anyone knows the answer ?

A curious question ! Anyone knows the answer ?

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tao guest

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64 posts

210 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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I've just had pasta for tea, and brought the ketchup through for my pasta, and all of the sudden I was very curious to know why is it called 'ketchup'?

Does anyone on here knows the history behind it? Where does the name come from?

Cheers.

Mikeyboy

5,018 posts

241 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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ketchup Look up ketchup at Dictionary.com
1711, from Malay kichap, from Chinese (Amoy dial.) koechiap "brine of fish." Catsup (earlier catchup) is a failed attempt at Anglicization, still in use in U.S. Originally a fish sauce, early English recipes included among their ingredients mushrooms, walnuts, cucumbers, and oysters. Modern form of the sauce began to emerge when U.S. seamen added tomatoes.

Etymological dictionaries are your friend...

johnfm

13,668 posts

256 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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What the fk???

Ketchup on pasta??

Do you have some sort of tastebud problem?

Stevenj214

4,941 posts

234 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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Almost anything you ever wanted to know about ketchup can be found here.

Kiltie

7,504 posts

252 months

Man-At-Arms

5,915 posts

185 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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erghh hurl
can't stand the stuff, full of MSG

anyways - just ask the wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup

Mexico.

1,254 posts

193 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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Crap thread should be in food & drink smile




Edited by Mexico. on Monday 20th July 22:29

s3fella

10,524 posts

193 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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johnfm said:
What the fk???

Ketchup on pasta??

Do you have some sort of tastebud problem?
I bet it was tinned pasta too!! LOLlaugh

Ayahuasca

27,428 posts

285 months

Monday 20th July 2009
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The tomato family went out for a walk. The smallest tomato kept falling behind. The big tomato then squished the small one and said "catch-up".


minimoog

6,942 posts

225 months

Tuesday 21st July 2009
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Ayahuasca said:
The tomato family went out for a walk. The smallest tomato kept falling behind. The big tomato then squished the small one and said "catch-up".

Lefty Guns

16,576 posts

208 months

Tuesday 21st July 2009
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Ayahuasca said:
The tomato family went out for a walk. The smallest tomato kept falling behind. The big tomato then squished the small one and said "catch-up".

You are the founding member of Fox Force Five?

Ayahuasca

27,428 posts

285 months

Tuesday 21st July 2009
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Lefty Guns said:
Ayahuasca said:
The tomato family went out for a walk. The smallest tomato kept falling behind. The big tomato then squished the small one and said "catch-up".

You are the founding member of Fox Force Five?
Very good - have a heroin overdose on me!