In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine — for baldness, jaundice and all 🍅
Patent-medicine makers bottled tomato ketchup as a cure-all, because tomatoes were then thought to hold real healing power.
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Patent-medicine makers bottled tomato ketchup as a cure-all, because tomatoes were then thought to hold real healing power.
Dive deeperPepper travelled from Asia by ship and caravan, so by the time it reached Europe its price had ballooned — making it a handy stand-in for cash.
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