Jun 20, 2019
(via There's Something Fishy About the Ketchup You Put On Your Burgers | Smart News | Smithsonian)
"Its name–ketchup or catsup depending on your linguistic preference–is rooted in Hokkien Chinese. “Depending on how it is translated, ketchup's predecessor was known as ke-tchup, kôechiap or kê-tsiap,” writes Lakshmi Gandhi for NPR’s CodeSwitch. The fermented fish sauce originally known by this name was succeeded by a fermented vegetable paste that had a variety of local names: these two sauces gave birth to ketchup."