Catsup.....

United States
June 15, 2007 2:23am CST
Okay I want to know where the name for "catsup" came from??? Let's face it tomato sauce does not resemble cats up...does it? lol....where'd the name come from?
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sunshinecup
@sunshinecup (7871)
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15 Jun 07
Ketchup came from Asia. It was originally made from pickled fish. Then visitors to these lands brought it back home and added or just plain out right made their own variation of it until finely we ended up in the form we know it today. I reckon the majority preferred tomatoes over fish.
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