Mangled and abused words and phrases

[British Red]

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HP sauce does contain vegetables though

 

[decorum]

Funny but the sauce described there seems more like the history I was taught for worcetershire sauce. Catsup has never contained fish sauce here. For that matter it's very name (the alternate name anyway) "Sauce American" with a French pronuciation would indicate it was invented here.

Names and spellings change, as do ingredients. Rebranding something is marketing, not invention

'The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup'

Sooo, it was recorded in the English language as catchup, then ketchup and, 19 years later, catsup .

 

[Mikey P]

A Frenchman whose name I can't remember now once said that the reason the sun never set on the British Empire was that God didn't trust an Englishman in the dark

Excellent! I like that!

 

[santaman2000]

Names and spellings change, as do ingredients. Rebranding something is marketing, not invention



Sooo, it was recorded in the English language as catchup, then ketchup and, 19 years later, catsup .

Possibly. But the indicated lineage is vague at best. In any case at least we are the world's second largest consumer per capita.

 

[armie]

And we are fond of a condiment called 'Ketjap Manis' An Indonesian sort of caramelised soy sauce which is where I understood the name Ketchup came from.

So it is looking as if it was an eastern sauce of some kind, tasty.

Is that the one made from bananas like the Philipine one?

Must be those soy bananas we hear so much about.

 

[santaman2000]

Must be those soy bananas we hear so much about.

LOL. Thanks. I just caught the soy bit on the second reading. But I thought that was Soy Sauce.

 

[Imagedude]

Right. And the sun still never sets on the empire eh?

It's well and truly set on most empires, even the Chinese empire is starting to waver. The next superpower? - The World Bank!

 

[santaman2000]

It's well and truly set on most empires, even the Chinese empire is starting to waver...

Yes, like a baby taking its first steps.

 

[Harvestman]

A Frenchman whose name I can't remember now once said that the reason the sun never set on the British Empire was that God didn't trust an Englishman in the dark

Fear of the dark...

 

[Kepis]

Yup - only we call it the Commonwealth now

+1 .