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TIL: Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn’t popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century.
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Ketchup of today also originally came from Chinese fish sauce called ke-tsiap, meaning “pickled fish sauce”. It has mutated a lot since Western cooks attempted to reverse engineer the recipe and got it very wrong to start with by making it out of mushrooms. Tomatoes were added in the Americas, and the cheap tomatos eventually squeezed out the more expensive mushrooms. Incidentally, ketchup was the first way European people accepted eating tomatoes because they were processed and combined with many other ingredients.
Also, if you ever make mushroom ketchup, it is pretty tasty!
Food used to be sold as a cure for hunger, and has many studies around its usefulness in preventing starvation.
It has natural mellowing agents.
Then turned into a way to cover the taste of spoiled meat
man, i wish other medicines tasted as good. albeit older medicine was dubious at best. oh you have ghosts in your blood, here is some cocaine.
Of course now we know better; Heinz sight is 20/20.
Cocaine use to be an ingredient in Coke.
That mato sizzurp
I got a bottle of ketchup for the first time in years. Hunts Natural it was called. It’s like freaking candy it’s so sweet.