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Tomato sugar-water that America decided counts as a vegetable in schools.
means A sweet-tangy tomato condiment thickened with sugar and vinegar, squeezed onto fries, burgers, and anything else that holds still.
from Traces back through Malay 'kecap' (a fermented sauce) to a Hokkien Chinese word, possibly 'kê-tsiap,' for a brine of pickled fish or shellfish — no tomatoes involved. British traders carried the word home in the 1600s–1700s and kept experimenting with the sauce, trying mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters before tomatoes finally won out in America in the 1800s, where sugar and vinegar turned it into the ketchup we know.
- original recipe
- Fermented fish sauce, no tomatoes involved
- sugar content
- More sugar per ounce than ice cream
- viscosity physics
- Shear-thinning fluid, hence the bottle slapping
- heinz dominance
- Controls roughly two thirds of the US market