Berliners love the "currywurst", a sausage topped with curry ketchup, so much, that there have been commemorative coins, novels, plays and movies honoring its invention. By tradition, every candidate for mayor must be photographed in front of a currywurst stand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cur…
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as Medicine. Ohio physician John Cooke Bennet claimed it as a cure for indigestion, diarrhea, etc., and had his pill salesman, Archibald Mills, make his sauce into extract of tomato pills. ripleys.com/weird-news/ke…
Ketchup was not always the tomato sauce we have come to love. It originally meant 'brine of pickled fish' and contained ingredients such as egg whites, oysters, mushrooms and walnuts, among other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket…
Ketchup was first sold as medicine. In 1834 Dr. John Cooke Bennet invented the idea to add tomatoes to ketchup (a fish or mushroom mix at the time). He believed that adding tomatoes added the vitamins and antioxidants needed to cure indigestion, later prescribing tomato pills to patients. kelownacapnews.com/trendi…
Ketchup originates from the Chinese word kôechiap, for"fish sauce", which British traders made popular in the West by importing it from Asia in the 18th century; only afterward did tomatoes replace fish as ketchup's main ingredient thetakeout.com/why-is-ket…
Soy sauce was introduced to Europe in 1647 and gained rapid popularity. Called 'ketchup' it inspired both mushroom ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. soyinfocenter.com/books/1…
Henry Heinz deliberately put his ketchup in clear glass bottles which was uncommon due to a lack of food safety standards. unethical companies used colored bottles to hide shoddy product and he worked with a chemist who went on to find foods containing gypsum, brick dust, borax, formaldehyde etc nationalgeographic.com/ma…
There actually aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and never were. Company founder H.J. Heinz thought his product should have a number, and he liked 57. rd.com/food/fun/heinz-ket…
John Lennon hated his own voice and loved to double-track his records. He would often ask the producer, George Martin: "Can't you smother it with tomato ketchup or something?" cheatsheet.com/entertainm…
The chorus in Asereje by Las Ketchup isn't *complete* nonsense, just a Spanish take on the lyrics of Rappers Delight (I said a hip-hop, the hippy, etc) youtu.be/HCCoZb4m2E0
Joe DiMaggio would’ve received $10,000 for an ad campaign if his record 56-game hitting streak had lasted one game longer. Heinz was ready to pay up to make him part of their 57 ketchup branding. history.com/this-day-in-h…
The Chorus (Aserejé, ja deje tejebe...) of The Ketchup Song (2002) is a spanish gibberish version of the Song "Rapper's Delight" (I said a hip hop, The hippie to the hippie...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
Ketchup started as a Chinese fish-based sauce, then it was picked up by the British and made into a mushroom-based sauce, and finally picked up by the Americans and made into a tomato-based sauce. smithsonianmag.com/arts-c…
A hitman fell in love with his target and faked her death with ketchup; he was hired to kill a woman whom a wife suspected of having an affair with her husband. The hitman sent a pic of his target in ketchup to the wife, but the jig was up when the wife caught hitman kissing his would-be victim. nypost.com/2011/09/23/hit…
In "Goodfellas", Robert DeNiro learned details about the real Jimmy Burke. He found that Jimmy loved ketchup, and how he poured it-because dispensing ketchup out of a glass bottle was a common problem then. The "spin" technique is what he used in the film, the way the real Jimmy did. youtu.be/tkNIOuZPXSc?t=52…
Heinz ketchup became so popular because Heinz invented a way to keep commercially produced ketchup red, which allowed him to package it in clear glass bottle and look more appealing. Before it, commercially produced ketchup was brown. sfgate.com/recipes/articl…
Ketchup was popular long before fresh tomatoes were. People were less hesitant to eat tomatoes as part of a highly processed product that had been cooked and infused with vinegar and spices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket…
Ketchup was origionally not made with tomatoes and that there are still mutiple kinds of ketchup, including walnut, mushroom, mango, and banana ketchup still sold today. cooksinfo.com/ketchup
The shrimp cocktail was invented in a bar on Boston Harbor in 1941. It was first prepared as a drunken “let’s put gross shit together in a glass and dare people to drink it” concoction with shrimp, ketchup, and vodka, but it proved to be delicious while hammered. savagehenrymagazine.com/h…
The original version of ketchup was not made with tomato, but "fermented pastes made from fish entrails, meat byproducts and soybeans." history.com/news/ketchup-…
Naporitan (Japanese: ナポリタン) is a popular Japanese pasta dish. It was created by Shigetada Irie (入江茂忠), the general chef of the New Grand Hotel (Hotel New Grand) in Yokohama, when he was inspired by one of the military rations of GHQ, which was spaghetti mixed with tomato ketchup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap…
In 1834, Dr John Cooke added tomatoes to ketchup and started selling it as a medicine. Due to copycats and false claims, the ketchup medicine empire however collapsed by 1850. thedailymeal.com/eat/ketc…
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council etiquette guide advises that any condiments remaining on your fingers should be licked away with the exception of ketchup, which has no business being on your hot dog at all if you are over 18. hot-dog.org/culture/hot-d…
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) says it is unacceptable to place ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18. Mustard, relish, onions, cheese and chili are acceptable. hot-dog.org/culture/hot-d…
The pecan industry's success is due to a slave named Antoine, who was a gardener and expert grafter of pecan trees. In 1876, nuts from Antoine's trees were displayed alongside Bell's telephone, the Remington typewriter, Heinz ketchup, and the right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty. zocalopublicsquare.org/20…
There is a grocery store named "Thanksgiving" in Paris that sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts, Heinz ketchup, and Skippy peanut butter to homesick ex-pats. atlasobscura.com/places/t…
The Centennial Exhibition in 1876 was attended by 5% of the US population and featured new inventions like the telephone, Heinz ketchup, and root beer. Bananas were introduced and sold for what would be $1.75/banana in today’s money. philadelphiaencyclopedia.…
The word “ketchup” didn’t overtake the word “catsup” until nearly 1980. Ketchup was originally a traditional Cantonese paste made from fermented fish guts, and didn’t include tomatoes until the early 1800s. writingexplained.org/cats…
In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup products called EZ Squirt, which eventually included green (2000), purple (2001), mystery (pink, orange, or teal, 2002), and blue (2003). As of January 2006 these products were discontinued. youtu.be/7gSaQw5RSd0
Today I learned about mushroom ketchup, the British ancestor of modern tomato ketchup prepared by packing whole mushrooms into containers with salt, letting the liquid from the mushrooms fill the container, cooking it to boiling point in an oven, adding spices, and straining it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus…
In 2012, thousands of ketchup bottles exploded. The culprit was counterfeiters filling fake name-brand bottles with cheap bulk ketchup. nj.com/morris/2012/10/cou…
The viscosity of Ketchup changes under stress, which is the reason why hitting and shaking the bottle makes it flow smoothly. Other examples of these so called "Non-Newtonian Fluids" are Flubber (slime) and plant resin. comsol.de/blogs/non-newto…
Ketchup barely goes bad. It is good two years past its expiration date. And then it can go a year in the fridge or a few months room temperature. canitgobad.net/can-ketchu…
The US now consumes some $2 billion worth of mayonnaise each year. The ketchup market is worth less than half that—around $800 million qz.com/172019/ketchup-isn…
The earliest recorded recipe for ketchup was a Chinese fish sauce called ke-tchup from 544 A.D. After the British found out about this condiment in the early 16th century, it took close to 200 years for tomato ketchup to be made due to the widespread fear that tomatoes were poisonous. fastcompany.com/1673352/h…
Texas banned last meal after inmate ordered two chicken-fried steaks, a triple-bacon cheeseburger, cheese omelette, three fajitas, pizza, barbecued meat with white bread, fried okra with ketchup, ice cream, peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts, three root beers and didn't eat any of it. telegraph.co.uk/news/worl…
The food company Heinz has apologized after a QR code on a bottle of tomato ketchup directed people to a pornography website. bbc.com/news/technology-3…
Ketchup can trace it's origins from China, based on a concoction of pickled fish and spices called (in the Amoy dialect) kôe-chiap or kê-chiap. The sauce made its way to the Malay states where it was tasted by English colonists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket…
Ketchup was considered a medicine in the early 19th century. The creator put them into pills and claimed that they could cure diarrhea and indigestion. Copycats then made laxatives under the name “ketchup” and stated that they could mend bones and cure scurvy. foodbeast.com/news/ketchu…
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles comes from an advertising statement that Heinz made "57 Varieties" of products. When Heinz introduced the "57 Varieties" slogan the company made at least 60 products. The number is simply the combination of numbers Heinz and his wife considered lucky. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hei…
Philippine's banana ketchup was created when there was a shortage of tomato ketchup during World War II. It was originally brownish-yellow, but they dyed it red to resemble tomatoes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban…
There is a plant that is able to simultaneously produce both tomatoes and potatoes, cleverly named the "Ketchup 'n' Fries" plant territorialseed.com/produ…
In the Philippines there's banana ketchup. During WW2 there was a shortage of tomatoes and had to use bananas as a replacement to replicate ketchup. It's made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban…
Today I learned of the The Ketchup 'n' Fries plant. Also known as the Pomato is the stem of a tomato plant grafted onto the root system of potato plant that can grow both tomatoes and potatoes at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom…
The most popular theory is that the word ketchup was derived from "koe-chiap" or "ke-tsiap" in the Amoy dialect of China, where it meant the brine of pickled fish or shellfish. Some people prefer the Malayan word "kechap" (spelled ketjap by the Dutch). nickyee.com/ponder/ketchu…
The first known published tomato ketchup recipe appeared in 1812, written by scientist and horticulturalist, James Mease, who referred to tomatoes as “love apples.” His recipe contained tomato pulp, spices, and brandy but lacked vinegar and sugar. nationalgeographic.com/pe…
An old Heinz QR code on a ketchup bottle linked to a German hardcore porn site. A German man who scanned the code thinking it would go to a design you own label page, got an apology from Heinz, and offer of a free year's subscription from the porn site. theguardian.com/technolog…
Cocktails sauce in the US is completely different from European one. In America they commonly use a mix of ketchup/chili sauce with prepared horseradish, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce, whereas in Europe it's simply mayo mixed witch ketchup, and Belgians also add whiskey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coc…
Before Heinz took over, 90% of ketchup on the market contained so many "injurious ingredients" that a bottle of it could literally kill you. fastcodesign.com/1673352/…
Someone using the pen name "James Richards" claims to have gone to a parallel universe where ketchup is purple and where The Beatles never broke up. James also claims to have taken a cassette tape titled "Everyday Chemistry", a Beatles album never released in our universe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve…
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had a morbid sense of humor. He would turn prison food into fake limbs covered with ketchup to resemble blood. He then would leave the fake limbs around the prison where other inmates and guards would find them. cnn.com/2015/04/30/us/fea…
The original ketchup was a fish sauce and based on the Chinese word for that sauce, and it turns out that in Chinese, "ketchup" also happens to be a homophone for "tomato sauce", which is what ketchup became. zolimacitymag.com/pop-can…
A food vendor for the Detroit Tigers was fired in 2013 for repeatedly refusing to put ketchup on patron's hot dogs, stating "There is no ketchup in baseball!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha…
One of the first recipes for ketchup included anchovies, and it took 100 years for people to start adding tomatoes into the sauce. mentalfloss.com/article/2…
McDonalds stopped using Heinz ketchup in their restaurants after the former head of Burger King took over as chief executive at Heinz bbc.co.uk/news/business-2…
Ketchup's popularity and universality is due in part to the fact that it embodies all five distinct tastes: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami gladwell.com/2004/2004_09…
One of the main challenges for zookeepers working with chimpanzees is preventing them from getting bored with their food. One common trick is to pack a short PVC tube with ketchup, mustard or other condiments, since chimps love the taste and will spend happy hours extracting it with sticks houstonzoo.org/blog/mmmm-…
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