...oh no, it's OK. Why do Americans call it catsup? What's the matter with them?
2007-01-03 03:00:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
KETCHUP: Also catchup, Catsup. A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.[Probably Malay kechap, fish sauce possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) ke-tsiap]
Notes: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that can take place in the borrowing process, both in the borrowing of a word and in the borrowing of a substance. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kechap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kechap, like our word, referred to a kind of sauce, but a sauce without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. The sauce seems to have emigrated to
Europe by way of sailors, where it was made with locally available ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some point, when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was born. However, it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup. These three spelling variants of a foreign borrowing remain current.
2007-01-03 03:09:11 · answer #1 · answered by Steve G 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
ketchup, catsup, tomato, tomahto... who knows why we call it catsup? What's the matter with us? Just look at who got voted into office! Nuf said.
--An american who says Ketchup and didn't vote for Bush
2007-01-03 03:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by JUDI O 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catsup is made with green tomatoes
2007-01-03 03:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by Robb the B.D.C. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard it called that. Some prat called it 'Tommy K' the other day, and 'Red Sauce' - what's that all about - Good old fashioned 'Ketchup' is what it is and always will be!
2007-01-03 03:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by First Ascent 4 Thistle 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's one of the annoying things about the jolly black cook (Ainsley Harriet) on Ready Steady - he ALWAYS calls it CATCHUP and it drives me up the bloody wall!
2007-01-03 03:45:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be spelled either way. Neither one is wrong. It's a brand thing.
2007-01-03 09:28:22 · answer #6 · answered by Margaret W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wonder what they call "brown sauce?"
2007-01-03 03:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are overweight and arrogant.......
2007-01-03 03:03:27 · answer #8 · answered by rusco21 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋