I've heard it called Ketchum, Catsup, etc. What's the etymology?
2006-09-29 03:58:33 · 17 answers · asked by SamuelBailey 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Ketchup is a Chinese word in origin. In the Amoy dialect of southeastern China, koechiap means 'brine of fish.' It was acquired by English, probably via Malay kichap, toward the end of the 17th century, when it was usually spelled catchup (the New Dictionary of the Canting Crew 1690 defines it as 'a high East-India Sauce'). Shortly afterward the spelling catsup came into vogue (Jonathan Swift is the first on record as using it, in 1730), and it remains the main form in American English. But in Britain ketchup has gradually established itself since the early 18th century.
2006-09-29 04:01:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ketchup existed before anyone outside the Americas had ever seen a tomato. Originally this sauce was made out of pickled fish. It originated in Eastern Asia; the word ketchup is used in Chinese, Malay and Indonesian (e.g., kecap manis)
2006-09-29 11:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by don't stop the music ♪ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A family of tomatoes were walking down the street. A Mommy, daddy and baby. The baby would not keep up. The daddy got so mad he went back and smashed him saying "I said ketchup!" I"m sorry, I just could not resist. I never thought I would actually have a way to use that joke. It's from "PulpFiction"
2006-09-29 11:08:38 · answer #3 · answered by thirsty mind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 guys were running down the road trying to develope ideas for tomato paste, one guy runs faster and kept telling the other guy to catch up, there is you name, Catsup, is spanish.
2006-09-29 11:02:13 · answer #4 · answered by Skuya!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word ketchup is derived from the Chinese ke-tsiap, a pickled fish sauce.
2006-09-29 11:01:33 · answer #5 · answered by GLOBAL WARMING! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there was a mama tomato and a daddy tomato and a baby tomato and they were walking down the street and the baby tomato was lagging behind so the daddy tomato went and stepped on him and squished him and said "catch up" ?!?!? Thats my story and Im sticking to it!
2006-09-29 11:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was when the momma, papa, and baby tomato were walking along, and the baby tomato was too slow and lagging behind. That papa went back and stomped on the little one and said, (ketch up!!) Lol
2006-09-29 11:01:55 · answer #7 · answered by momcat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A red sauce bottle.
2006-09-29 11:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
trade name given by Heinz
2006-09-30 05:44:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it comes from ones desire to dip french fries in something yummy with a tomato flavor!
2006-09-29 11:01:16 · answer #10 · answered by CRYSTAL S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋