ketchup CRAZINESS

Ketchup is a table sauce

Ketchup is a table sauce. Traditionally, recipes featured ketchups made from egg whites, mushrooms, oysters, mussels, walnuts, or other foods,[1][2] but in modern times the unmodified term usually refers to tomato ketchup. A similar sauce Tomato sauce is sold in Australia, New Zealand, and India, and is almost exclusively used in South Africa.

Ketchup is a sweet and tangy sauce, typically made from tomatoes, sweetener, vinegar, and assorted seasonings and spices. Seasonings vary by recipe, but commonly include onions, allspice, coriander, cloves, cumin, garlic, mustard and sometimes celery, cinnamon or ginger.[3]

The market leader in United States (82% market share) and United Kingdom (60%) is Heinz.[4][5]

Tomato ketchup is often used as a condiment to various dishes that are usually served hot: French fries, hamburgers, hot sandwiches, hot dogs, cooked eggs, and grilled or fried meat. Ketchup is sometimes used as the basis for, or an ingredient in, other sauces and dressings, and it is also used as an additive flavoring for snacks like potato chips.*wikipedia