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?
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.
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!
Yeah, the OG things that eventually birthed Tomato Ketchup were basically umami rich fish sauces and came from China.
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!
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
I’m sure there’s a climate change joke in there somewhere.
I know climate change is definitely bad… but if I could grow tropical fruit in my backyard year round it would be pretty sweet
I think the obvious answer here is move to the tropics!
If only I could, probably have to wait until the kids are grown. But by then the tropics might have moved here!
My Auntie and Uncle spent 2 years living and working in Malaysia when their kids were about 5ish and 8ish. Awesome experience for adults and kids alike, and also for their young adult nephew (me) who went to visit them as well! Kids attended an Australian school in Malaysia following the Australian curriculum.