Bob (this one) extrapolated from data available...

> ASmith1946 wrote:
>
>>>
>>>In the 1600s Dutch and British seamen brought back a salty pickled
>>>fish sauce called 'ketsiap' from China.
>>
>> Not true. No evidence for Dutch or British seamen bring back pickled
>> fish sauce from China. Englishmen did bring it back from Indonesia.
>
> <<< snip >>>
>
>> The Heinz formula has not changed since, >
>>
>> This is pure BS. I have the original formula, and if you use it, it
>> ends up a ruddy brown, thin product.
>>
>>>In 1848 some ketchup manufacturers came under fire for their
>>>unsanitary practices-coal tar was frequently used to heighten the red
>>>color.
>>
>> No ketchup manufacture came "under fire in 1848, or anytime
>> thereafter for decades.
>>
>> Who makes up this stuff?
>
> <LOL> There's a guy in Secaucus, New Jersey (where else?) who makes
> his living by writing stuff to bedevil people. Last one I saw from him
> was the list of where words come from. That whole thing that included
> "honeymoon" and "throwing out the baby with the bath water" and things
> like that.
>
> I'm totally serious.
>

More subjects and more ridiculous than even that noted cookbook author
whose name eveades me whose treatises on Western cooking methods and
recipes range from "just plumb silly" to "What was he smoking?".

TMO