Though you don't hear of them too often, there are alternative types of ketchup beyond tomato in this wide culinary world of ours (mushroom ketchup, anyone?). One of them, banana ketchup, comes from ...
Tomato ketchup was first bottled in the 1850s in this country, said Andrew Smith in the "The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink." In 1901, a study found it to be "the most popular bottled ...