Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @eagleeyedtiger
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    45 months ago

    For some reason yesterday I was reading about ketchup on Wikipedia, apparently in the UK it was originally made with mushrooms instead of tomatoes, which has got me intrigued. I’m not sure I want to waste a bunch of mushrooms trying to make it, in case it’s gross. But I’ve never seen a commercial version of mushroom ketchup here before 🤔

    • @Ozymati
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      55 months ago

      That sounds potentially delicious though

    • @DaveOPMA
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      45 months ago

      Interesting, I didn’t know that! I guess it makes sense, tomatoes are native to the Americas so wouldn’t have been in Europe until relatively recently.

      • @eagleeyedtiger
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        55 months ago

        Supposedly the tomato variants of ketchup didn’t appear until about a century after the other types.

        The first known published tomato ketchup recipe was in 1812, but the term ‘ketchup’ first appeared in 1682.

        Those are my ketchup facts for the day!

        • @DaveOPMA
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          25 months ago

          Oh wow, I was expecting it to all happen a lot earlier than that! It seems tomatoes were in the UK in the 1500s but didn’t become popular until the 1800s!

          • @eagleeyedtiger
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            5 months ago

            I’m guessing the varieties back then didn’t grow too well in the UK climate and would have been hard to get fresh imported tomatoes on slow ships

            • @DaveOPMA
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              25 months ago

              I’m sure there’s a climate change joke in there somewhere.

              • @eagleeyedtiger
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                25 months ago

                I know climate change is definitely bad… but if I could grow tropical fruit in my backyard year round it would be pretty sweet

                • @DaveOPMA
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                  25 months ago

                  I think the obvious answer here is move to the tropics!

                  • @eagleeyedtiger
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                    25 months ago

                    If only I could, probably have to wait until the kids are grown. But by then the tropics might have moved here!

        • @TagMeInSkipIGotThis
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          25 months ago

          Yeah, the OG things that eventually birthed Tomato Ketchup were basically umami rich fish sauces and came from China.