Ketchup is technically a jelly
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Also, it was not originally made with tomatoes.
What was it made of then? Ketch?
Shut up 😠
Mmm, PB&K
Wasn't thinking about it... Now I can't unthink it...
The older name was catsup. It was cat soup.
I've never used vinegar to make jelly.
Not quite…it was originally a southeast Asian sauce popular in China and Malaysia where it went by a name pronounced like “ke-tsap,” and it was made from tropical fruits like bananas and plums and fish sauces. Europeans tried to recreate it using tomatoes, and that’s how it became what is today.
That sounds like made up history trying to fill a hypothesis. In Britain, they give you vinegar with your chips. In New Zealand, if you ask for ketchup, they give you tomato sauce.
“Everything I don’t know is fake.” OK, bud. ✌️
I'm cool with that.
Everything you read about China and Malaysia inventing some kind of sauce that isn't even ketchup might not even be true. I presented some first hand knowledge of "ketchup" not being a shared concept in the western world. Ketchup as we know it today was invented by heinz
Do you also think Italians invented noodles?
Do you think Asians invented everything?
No, I think history is bullshit.
Just the good things that Europeans copied.
Or, I guess in this case it's somehow Americans that experienced the Asian sauce and copied it since ketchup isn't a European thing. Right?
Chip Wilson's birth date is April 25, 1955. He invented yoga pants but has still not received a nobel prize. How many lives has he affected positively? Every man in Austin texas for sure.
It's a travesty. 4/25 should be a global holiday.
Unacceptable!
No, it’s just that the British version wasn’t very good and couldn’t outcompete the more popular Worcestershire sauce. It took a German American immigrant to finally perfect it.
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at least 20% sugar