Josef-Martin Walch

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Ketchup descends from fish sauce.

It's a wild story on global trade that dates back to 300-200 BC.

In two parts of the world, a sauce was made from oily fish guts (anchovies, sardines) mixed with salt and herbs that was fermented for months in the sun.

Ancient Greece called it garum while Ancient China called it kê-chiap (Hokkien for "brine of pickled fish").

Garum later became popular in the Roman empire but disappeared as trade routes with coastal production centres were disrupted. Fermented fish sauce fell out of favour in China but — thankfully — it became and stayed a staple in Southeast Asia.

Fast forward to the 16th century, Chinese seafarers were re-introduced to fish sauce while trading with Vietnam (called nước mắm) and Thailand (nam pla).

These same Chinese explorers transported the sauce back to China and modern-day regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong etc.

Soon, Dutch and British traders made contact with the fish sauce — which travels very well because it's fermented — and took it home.

Back in Europe, the fish sauce was often recreated by substituting the fish for other local ingredients that could bring out the dark brown hue (walnuts, mushrooms, mussels).

Remember the Hokkien name? Kê-chiap. The name was adapted to "ketchup" or "catsup" and given to all these remixes.

Over the next 200 years, the sauce took a total detour from the OG recipe (Worcestershire sauce is one of the off-shoots).

In 1812, an American horticulturist James Mease created the first tomato ketchup. The recipe called for brandy and didn't have two ingredients that are abundant in today's ketchup: vinegar and sugar.

Of course, the most famous popularizer of the condiment was Henry John Heinz, who created the first Heinz Tomato Ketchup in 1876 (originally called "catsup").

In addition to tomatoes, the Heinz sauce had salt, vinegar and brown sugar spices (sources tell me no fish guts).

Ketchup is now the staplest staple possible: over 650 million bottles of Heinz are sold a year and >95% of American homes have a bottle in the house.

All of this because of fermented fish. Pungent and savory and umami-giving fermented fish.

[#DankeSeb ♡ @sebvettelnews]

What an amazing qualifying session from Seb!

Can't believe it is his last one 🥺

Thank you for all the amazing qualifying moments you've given us through all these years, Seb ❤️ #DankeSeb

[Sebastian Vettel Updates @ocsebvettel]

Q: How has Hannah helped you away from the track?

#SV5: “Is it all those moments that are not glorious, that’d think are not important, but they do! There was a lot of them. she kept me sane, looked after me and give me all the support so I don’t feel alone and to feel loved”

[Anas @Anas_tatab]

@ocsebvettel Ngl, Sebastians wife is the biggest W he scored.

[Sepp Schellhorn @pepssch]

die Essigwurst muss wiederbelebt werden ...... @verzauberungsanstalt

[Josef-Martin Walch @jmw_walch]

@Peter_Pilz Pilz

[Hanno Settele @HannoSettele]

Der Moment, wenn Dich Anneliese Rohrer schachmatt setzt. Sie kann halt nicht nur Politik.

[Tobi Grüner 🏁 @tgruener]

Sebastian Vettel said, that he's sad and shocked to hear the morning news. Says he made his decision not to drive at Russia this year even if there is no official decision about a cancellation yet.

#AMuS

[Peter Bußjäger @PeterBussjaeger]

Ich wiederhole mich - in dem Fall sehr gerne: ein guter Tag beginnt mit einer Xiberger-Medaille #strolz

[Niko Alm 𖤐 @NikoAlm]

Wann stampft ihr endlich Attac ein?

[X Mayor of Durban @LuckyGordy]

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...

[Martin Moder @Martin_Moder]

Früher war ich schockiert, dass sich Menschen aufgrund einer Religion radikalisieren können. Aber seit ich sehe, dass das auch anhand einer Schutzimpfung klappt, würde es mich nicht wundern, wenn sich bald die Ersten wegen Erdnussbutter radikalisieren

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Merci, chère Angela, de n'avoir jamais oublié les leçons de l'Histoire, d'avoir tant fait pour nous, avec nous, pour faire avancer l'Europe. Danke, dass du die Lehren der Geschichte nie vergessen und so viel für und mit uns getan hast, um Europa voranzubringen.

[Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz @LukasGahleitner]

Wie schaut es aus, hat die Tourismusministerin jetzt Verständnis für die Aussagen des Gesundheitsministers, @Kosak_Daniel?

Was für eine blamable Performance.

[Petutschnig Hons @PetutschnigHons]

Eine meiner Kühe hat sich vorhin selbst ein Horn abgetrennt und blutet nun stark - Ich werd mal die Nina Proll fragen, wie ich die Kuh am besten behandeln soll.

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Im not bothered by the outcome of this match at all. Just seeing Federer at 39 off the back of 2 knee surgeries playing to an empty stadium at 12.30am getting fired up is inspirational to me. Do what you ❤️

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Your final pairing for Sunday at the #PGAChamp.

@PhilMickelson x @BKoepka

[ESPN F1 @ESPNF1]

Lewis Hamilton says F1 has become a 'billionaire boys' club' 💰