Started by An Bui (@an_bui) ·
ketchup used to be fish sauce
Probably from a Hokkien word for fermented fish sauce. English versions were made of mushrooms, walnuts, oysters. Tomato came later; Heinz won by dropping the preservatives everyone else used.
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How I got here
- Started with
- “history of ketchup”
- Ended at
- Heinz
The Trail
- “history of ketchup” (google.com)
- Ketchup (en.wikipedia.org)
- Fish sauce (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mushroom ketchup (en.wikipedia.org)
- Heinz (en.wikipedia.org)
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