The curious history of Ketchup

Ketchup, What would be of our dinners without that tomato sauce accompanying many of our dishes? We love its flavor and that almost iconic air thanks to the important brands that have marketed it.If you are a Ketchup fan you will be interested to know, for example, that in its beginnings it did not contain a trace of tomato and that it was marketed as a medicine , as happened with Coca-Cola at the time.But we delve a little deeper into the subject, surely some data will surprise you.

Curiosities about Ketchup

1.Te I would like to know that Ketchup originates in China and not in the US.Its name was somewhat similar: Ketsiap.It was a spicy spicy sauce with which to accompany meats and fish.And no… it did not have in its composition not a single tomato.

2.It was the English who imported it from the Malay archipelago where it had spread, in the seventeenth century.They began selling it as medicine, just like what happened for example with Coca-Cola.

3.According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy the word comes from Chinese, as we have said.Deriving from the term koechiap, which means pickled fish sauce (Fish sauce).

4.It was in England when it began to be called “ketchup ”, although in the newspapers and in the graphic media it was called “catchup.” Although little by little the colloquial expression of the people was what I took more strength to cradle the one we all know today.

5.Who led the exploitation and expression of Ketchup -so to speak-to the Olympus of Fame was undoubtedly the American Henry J.Heinz.He ran the year 1876 and was who had the great success of adding tomato to the well-known sauce.The result? Obviously sensational.

6.Heinz made a living selling canned radishes with the novelty of packaging: he did it in glass jars, an authentic sophistication for the time.The essence was something he had already inherited from his mother.

7.The company that sold Ketchup was called Heinz&Noble , since in the beginning his company had a partner.Little by little, this product was taking on a gigantic weight throughout the continent, until 1990, the Heinz factory and its heirs, introduced the first recyclable plastic ketchup container, another unstoppable success, thus extending to the entire world.>

8.An interesting fact to keep in mind is that ketchup is on the list of so-called non-Newtonian fluids, such as whipped creams, blood, or enamel of ones.But what does this mean? Very simple, they are fluids that have the property of changing their viscosity depending on the agitation.That is why before using it or using it we have to shake it in order to get a portion.Curious is not it?

9.Ketchup is popular all over the world .But in the US it is consumed by almost 97% of the population, and the average is one liter per year.

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