"What we think of as our culture's foods — ketchup, or fish and chips — usually developed over long periods of time across many cultures."
The word ketchup came from Chinese. It's a mixture of the word "tchup," which means "sauce" in certain Chinese dialects, and "ke," which refers to preserved fish. And there's a reason for that. Ketchup was originally a fish sauce.
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Source: A linguist’s history of the foods you love - Vox
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