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means A sauce, spice, or relish added to food to boost or complement its flavor.

from From Latin condimentum, 'a seasoning,' from condire, 'to pickle, preserve, or season.' Condire itself is tangled up with condere, 'to put together, store away, preserve' — so a condiment was originally something that preserved or transformed food, long before it became the thing you squeeze on top as an afterthought.

ketchup origin
Started as fermented fish sauce in ancient China.
legal loophole
US once let schools count ketchup as a vegetable.
mayonnaise math
Mostly oil, technically an emulsion, mostly a personality test.
mustard seed
Jesus compared faith to it for a reason, it is tiny but fierce.
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