A curious question ! Anyone knows the answer ?

[tao guest]

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]

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]

What the fk???

Ketchup on pasta??

Do you have some sort of tastebud problem?

[Stevenj214]

Almost anything you ever wanted to know about ketchup can be found here.

[Kiltie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup

[Man-At-Arms]

erghh
can't stand the stuff, full of MSG

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

[Mexico.]

Crap thread should be in food & drink

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

[s3fella]

johnfm said:

What the fk???

Ketchup on pasta??

Do you have some sort of tastebud problem?

I bet it was tinned pasta too!! LOL

[Ayahuasca]

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]

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]

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]

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!