It just makes food look like it's bleeding to death on your plate!!!!
2007-08-01 07:35:46 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
not really. at least, my blood doesn't look like that. maybe you need a blood test. and it's delicious :)
2007-08-01 07:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess some people are under the impression that ketchup was originally an American invention, and has always been made out of tomatoes. It's companies like Heinz that have made ketchup fans think tomato tomato tomato!!! Just take a look at the recipes on Planet Ketchup (use menu bars) to see the different variations of ketchup that can be made.
Looking back to the eighteenth century, ketchup started out as a sauce made of anchovies, walnuts, mushrooms and kidney beans. Doesn't sound very tomato like, does it? One popular theory is that the word ketchup is derived from the koechiap or ke-tsiap which is from the Amoy dialect of China. Roughly translated means the brine of pickled fish or shellfish. Around the late seventeenth century the name and samples arrived in England where it appeared in print as catchup and then finally as ketchup. It seems the name has stuck and has been made popular throughout the world! The British took in the idea and were soon using ketchup for pickling anchovies and oysters.
So what about Heinz? Sources claim that Henry J Heinz began making ketchup in 1876. The recipe has remained the same to this day. Heinz was neither the inventor of ketchup nor the first to bottle it commercially. The tomato is a native of the Andes, and early in the 1500's, while living in Mexico a group of Spanish conquistadores discovered it and the tomato followed them back to Europe.
Another source states that ketchup is a term derived from Asian cookery, where it is known to be a sweet sauce made from tomatoes.
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2007-08-01 14:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I like ketchup for meatloaf [vegetarian] and french fries. That's it. But it's good for that. My brother used to coat everything in it. Have you ever eaten with someone who has ketchup on pancakes? I wouldn't suggest it.
2007-08-01 17:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's great for French Fries. And potatoes don't bleed!
2007-08-01 14:39:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh, but over the years the sugar amount has been ever increasing, so now we all now for sure the tomatoes are indeed a fruit.
2007-08-01 14:38:44 · answer #5 · answered by waddlin' along 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sandwiches, french fries, etc. Not for teeth bleeding though.
2007-08-01 14:37:37 · answer #6 · answered by Johnny Rocker 89 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ugghh I hate ketchup. A LOT
2007-08-01 14:38:13 · answer #7 · answered by Lynna J 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not a big ketchup fan, myself.... maybe the lycopenes are beneficial.
2007-08-01 14:38:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ketchup is way too bland.
2007-08-01 14:47:16 · answer #9 · answered by James Dean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it taste good with hotdogs, fried chicken, french fries, hamburger!
2007-08-01 14:42:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋