[Sca-cooks] Roman Ketchup?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Aelina wrote:
>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.sagnlandet.dk/&ei=PTeJTKLfLpL0swOFyaisCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlejre%2Bfors%25C3%25B8gscenter%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26prmd%3Div
>
>While researching on a totally unrelated topic I found this "discussion." I
>thought tomatoes were "New World?"

I only get the front page of
http://www.sagnlandet.dk/
this way and can't figure out where to find a discussion of Roman 
ketchup. Can you provide the actual webpage URL on which tomatoes are 
mentioned?

I have over the years seen numerous items called ketchup that have 
nothing to do with tomato ketchup.

The word is used in Indonesia and Malaysia for soy sauce, a use that 
predates the creation of tomato ketchup. I have even heard of an 
English sauce called walnut ketchup. So i can readily imagine calling 
garum/garon ketchup...

But i won't know the claims of this webpage until i see it.

(pause) (fiddle around on Danish website again)

Ah hah! When i use the site's search engine and enter ''ketchup'', i 
get pages that mention garum, which as we all know, was chiefly made 
of fish/fish parts. And garum or at least the wide variety of 
Southeast Asian fish sauces i have tried are far closer in flavor and 
use to soy sauce, aka ketchap in Bahasa Indonesia/Malayu, than either 
one is to tomato ketchup.
-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita