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Did you know...
Ketchup is believed to be a descendant of a Chinese brine sauce called 'Ketsiap' which was the result of making either pickled poultry or pickled fish. Ketsiap has been known in China since around 1690 and the name is most commonly applied to a type of fish sauce. The Chinese word 'Ketsiap' simply means 'sauce.' There is also a Malay version of this fish sauce by the name of 'kechap' and this Malaysian word means 'taste.'
Sometime in the 17th century, British sailors were out sailing around for a breath of fresh air and adventure, not to mention plunder, when they discovered this fish sauce in China and carried a mess of it back home. There, probably in an effort to make it taste like anything but pickled fish, cooks mutated and reformulated this concoction until, somewhere along the way, someone invented tomatoes and history was made. Tomato Ketchup was born.
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