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It's Independence Day here in the US, so here are some patriotic kid photos for you.
"Wait a minute," you say, "That featured image doesn't have any flags or fireworks or gilled meat products! How is that patriotic?"
"Ah," I reply,"It was taken at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC last…
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The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
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315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
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So maybe there is actually something to those ketchup routines on Prairie Home Companion?
Name one fluid that wasn't sold in the 1830's as medicine, and I'll bet it stands out if only because it has medicinal properties.
It wasn't too many years before then that tomatoes were considered poisonous to humans. And only 160 years later when ketchup was classified as a vegetable on school lunch menus. Ah, ketchup!
That really does not surprise me too much...it is a preserved food that is full of carotenoids - which people might have been in desperate need of in times past.
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In that time period, "ketchup" didn't necessarily mean tomato ketchup. There were recipes for ketchups based on lemons, mushrooms, anchovies and even walnuts.
"Ketchup" is thought to derive from the Indonesian kecap ican, a salted, fermented fish and soy sauce.
There's a good discussion of ketchup in Mark Kurlansky's wonderful book Salt, a World History along with a recipe for "love-apple"(tomato) ketchup from the early 19th century.