Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>The last time my cats supped, it was on the carcasses of mice!<< LOL! Oddly enough, the mice had a hint of Merlot flavor.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I had all but forgotten how political ketchup became in the last election. Anyone remember this stuff? <a href="http://www.wketchup.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wketchup.com/</a>
Originally Posted By friendofdd ketch·up ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kchp, kch-) also catch·up (kchp, kch-) or cat·sup (ktsp, kchp, kch-) n. A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Probably Malay kicap, fish sauce, possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) k-chap, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) qié, eggplant + Chinese (Mandarin) zh, sap, gravy.] Word History: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that can take place in borrowingboth of words and substances. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kchap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kchap, like ketchup, was a sauce, but one without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. Sailors seem to have brought the sauce to Europe, where it was made with locally available ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some unknown point, when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was born. But it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the form catsup. All three spelling variants of this foreign borrowing remain current.
Originally Posted By friendofdd According to the above, catchup is the earliest proper spelling. Get with it TDG.
Originally Posted By Labuda I will NEVER ever EVER buy that WW ketchup junk! NO way, no how, NOT A CHANCE. Nor would I eat it if it were free.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 WKetchup is good mixed with Hillary Hollandaise sauce and spread on Barbara Boxer buns.
Originally Posted By idleHands What the heck is it about these threads that have TDG at their foundation? Is there some kind of cyberaura surrounding him? What exactly is going on here? "When the going gets weird... the weird turn to Tall Disney Guy."
Originally Posted By friendofdd To quote Harley Davidson owners trying to explain why they pay so much to ride a rather average performing motorcycle - Why TDG? If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.
Originally Posted By friendofdd Or to paraphrase Tom Hanks in a certain movie.... Weird is as weird does.
Originally Posted By idleHands ^^ I thought Forrest said, "Stupid is as stupid does"? Is that what you're quietly implying about TDG?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I will NEVER ever EVER buy that WW ketchup junk! NO way, no how, NOT A CHANCE. Nor would I eat it if it were free.<< Would you eat it in a tree? Would you eat it with a flea? Would you try on a dare? Would you feed it to a bear?
Originally Posted By trailsend >>What the heck is it about these threads that have TDG at their foundation? Is there some kind of cyberaura surrounding him? What exactly is going on here?<< Well, idleHands, if you weren't so far off to the Dark Side, someone might just have you star in your own topic. I guess it's just us weird, freaky, happy, Pollyanna people who get topics. I mean, boiled custard and ketchup??? what more could you ask for??
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I love green eggs and ham! I would eat them in a box, I would eat them with a fox.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom In our Nursing Home we had a resident who would put Ketchup on his pancakes.
