why is ketchup called ketchup but not tomato sauce?
2007-01-27 15:28:26 · 9 answers · asked by invisibleeffect 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
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[8]. Some people prefer the Malayan word "kechap" (spelled ketjap by the Dutch), which may have come from the Chinese in the first place. The Malay word means taste. And in some time in the late seventeenth century, the name and some samples might have arrived in England where it appeared in print as "catchup" in 1690 and then as "ketchup" in 1711. These names stuck with the British, who quickly appropriated them for their own pickled condiments of anchovies or oysters.
and then it spread to the us
2007-01-27 15:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by krynmusic 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have always thought that ketchup was made of tomato and spices, but several sources claim it was a sauce invented by the Chinese and contained NO tomato. That's not what I would consider ketchup.
2007-01-27 15:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by lyyman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just regional thing. Australians call ketchup 'tomato sauce', but in other places tomoto sauce is a tomato puree without added spices, sugar vinegar etc.
2007-01-27 18:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of the type of ingredients in ketchup and how it is processed. They are both made from tomatoes, but they use different additional ingredients and go through a different type of processing. It is similar to the difference between apple jelly and apple sauce or potato chips and instant potatoes.
2007-01-27 15:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by wildcatfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ketchup has vinegar, tomato sauce doesn't.
2007-01-27 17:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It derives from Malay kichap, from Chinese (Amoy dial.) koechiap "brine of fish." Catsup (earlier catchup) is a failed attempt at Anglicization, still in use in U.S. Originally a fish sauce, early English recipes included among their ingredients mushrooms, walnuts, cucumbers, and oysters. Modern form of the sauce began to emerge when U.S. seamen added tomatoes.
2007-01-27 16:00:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has vinegar and sugar in it.
Tomato sauce does not.
2007-01-27 15:33:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's just a brand name that caught on
2007-01-27 15:49:28 · answer #8 · answered by DivaHawk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its not the same...read the label....
2007-01-27 15:35:12 · answer #9 · answered by witchywoman_1977 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋