Things you never knew about Ketchup

Who doesn't like Ketchup ? Almost every house has a bottle of ketchup in thier fridge. Usually Ketchup is eaten with fries, hamburgers, sandwiches and grilled meats.

Originally Ketchup didn't involve tomatoes . It was a salty pickled fish sauce called 'ketsiap' meaning “brine of pickled fish or shellfish.” . English and Dutch sailors brought it from China in the 1600s .Gradually it went in to somechanges and tomatoes were added in the 1700s.

World's Longest Ketchup Bottle:



The ketchup or catsup bottle was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company to replace the water tower of the old Brooks Catsup Plant.

Some Statistics:
Percentage of people ordering hamburgers at restaurants who use ketchup: 93%
Percentage of people eating hamburgers at home who use ketchup: 37%
Amount of ketchup McDonalds uses annually in the U.S.: 250 million lbs.
First reference to ketchup in the English language: 1690

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