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.

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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