The past doesn't actually give the info it teases, so here it is. > Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fer

The past doesn't actually give the info it teases, so here it is. > Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. It is believed that traders brought fish sauce from Vietnam to southeastern China. The British likely encountered ketchup in Southeast Asia, returned home, and tried to replicate the fermented dark sauce.