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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:44:10 EDT
" The Chinese invented ke-tsiap, a concoction of pickled fish and spices,
but no tomatoes, in the 1690s. By the early 1700s its popularity had spread to
Malasia, where British explorers first encountered it. By 1740 the sauce,
renamed ketchup, was an English staple, and was becoming popular in the American
colonies."
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" Tomatoe ketchup wasn't invented until the 1790s, when New England
colonists first mixed tomatoes into the sauce. The reason it took so long to add the
tomatoes, people were afraid to eat them. The tomato is a close relative of
the toxic belladonna and nightshade plants, most people assumed the tomato was
also poisonous. Thomas Jefferson helped dispel the myth, his highly
publicized love of tomatoes helped popularize them.
Ketchup is now considered a heart food. "
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