The history they didn’t teach you

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  • KETCHUP

    KETCHUP

    Think ketchup is just a humble sidekick to fries? Oh honey, think again. Ketchup: once a fishy Chinese sauce, later a 19th-century “medicine,” and now America’s favorite fry-sidekick. History is wild, weird, and way more flavorful than you think.

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