Mcr LA dodger stadium night 1

I also saw the SF show and im glad i got to hear boy division twice!!!

The History of Ketchup?  Who knew? Who cared?

No one really stops and looks at ketchup and sez, “why am I eating this stuff"?  Its just always there! It is estimated that up to 97% of all American homes have a bottle of ketchup in the fridge. ( I do,)

“How did a simple sauce come to be so loved by America? It turns out ketchup’s origins are anything but American. Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. It is believed that traders brought fish sauce from Vietnam to southeastern China.

The British likely encountered ketchup in Southeast Asia, returned home, and tried to replicate the fermented dark sauce. This probably happened in the late 17th and early 18th centuries as evidenced by a recipe published in 1732 for “Ketchup in Paste,” by Richard Bradley” ( National Geographic)

Now, I gotta laugh, because if you have ever tasted Vietnames or Chinese fish sauce, you know that its a Long Long way from ketchup as we know it. They used to put stuff in the fish sauce like walnuts, mushrooms and fish. Until about the early 1800s it was pretty much, ‘fish sauce’.

In 1812, a smart fellow named James Mease  added tomatoes, ( he called them ‘love apples’, brandy and some spices but it still was not the ketchup we know. In 1905 saw Heinz add vinegar and sugar, a good advertising push and sales took off...here we are, 100 years of having it in front of us has trained us to think that its a ‘normal’ food item.

I like to try different brands, ( there are a lot) and my girl started putting sriracha sauce in it...

That numbskull in the ad is all hot for ketchup when he has a beautiful wife, hey............idea! Hey honey...!

Act 5, Chapter 18 Illustrations!

We’re a bit late publishing, so keep your eyes peeled!

BE OLD @fightbeast! Love you Parallax comic so much <3