Ketchup. Or is it Catsup? – IOTW Report

Ketchup. Or is it Catsup?

Via Common Sense Evaluation.

32 Comments on Ketchup. Or is it Catsup?

  1. Ketchup. It’s a word originally from a Chinese dialect the English word was borrowed from Malay. “Catsup” is a new variant spelling that came well after “ketchup”.

    American-style ketchup, as the Common Sense Eval says, does a good job of making poor/bland food a bit more palatable. If you want a treat, try a south-east Asian ketchup, especially mushroom ketchup. I recommend giving the fish sauce ketchup a miss, although fish sauce itself in modest quantity is an important part of many delicious SE Asian dishes.

  2. The Joy Of Cooking cookbook, as I recall, has a recipe for making grape ketchup.

    I would be tempted to try it, but it involves canning and that cookbook has a warning of how you risk killing 3/4 of the world’s population if you don’t do it exactly right.

  3. Kelly’s restaurant in the Houston area.
    2 eggs over ezy giant pile of burnt up
    hash browns with 6 strips of over sized
    stop your heart BACON! Smothered in Heinz 57
    catshup and generous squirts of Tabasco.
    I can feel the sweat on my forehead already….

  4. Since I’ve gone low carb (Heinz’s low sugar ketchup is not really low carb), I’ve been making my own (it’s super simple). My wife has celiac disease, so this is also gluten free:

    12 oz tomato paste
    1/4 cup cider vinegar
    1/2 cup or more water (to achieve desired thickness)
    1 Tablespoon your favorite mustard, but no whole mustard seeds
    1 tsp onion powder
    1/2 tsp garlic powder
    spices (I change my recipe for every batch, and use just a dash so as not to overpower): cumin, curry powder, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, chili powder, cajun seasoning, etc.). Be creative!
    3 dropperfuls of liquid stevia sweetener (or to taste)

    Mix all and simmer on low for 30 to 60 minutes.
    I put into this squeeze bottle for easy dispensing:
    http://a.co/05vJDNz

  5. Ketchup and Catsup were both a gift from Mahomet and figure largely in the Koran – for the drowning of jewish monkey-pigs and nazarene infidels.

    If you do not believe; I killllllllll you!

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