Interesting facts about the ketchup and oysters. Bashny.Net

Oysters
In the early 19th century in France, England oysters are the food of the poor, since they lacked the funds for meat.
Thus, the uncontrolled and large catch of oysters led to the fact that their population has been decreasing in nature, then the second half of the 19th century, they gained so much that they became a delicacy.







Originally prepared without tomato ketchup, it was usually a liquid sauce based on soy.
Ketchup - a sauce, vegetables, the main ingredient is tomato. China is the ancestral home of ketchup. In the 17th century, from Asia to England imported sauce, which was made from anchovies, mushrooms, beans and walnuts. This sauce had a very interesting name "Eggplant Juice"). More often than not it included a brine of salt fish or shellfish. The first ketchup recipe is in the book "The Real Housewives," which in 1727 released E. Smith in 1727.



This ketchup on that recipe should be composed of anchovies, white wine, vinegar, pepper, sweet spices lemon peel. This seasoning rather quickly spread around the world.

Modern ketchup emerged in the early 20th century in the United States. In America, John Yarkes opened ketchup in 1837, and gradually came to symbolize US ketchup just like chewing gum and jeans ...