>>21909288
cheap, palatable

>>21909288
Ketchup is British dumbass...

>>21909324
That doesn't even come close to answering the question you retard

>>21909288
the perfect ratio of sugar salt fat

>>21909340
no? it seems to explain the popularity of it to some extent. you referring to OP mentioning those places as if it makes any difference where the food originated in a globalized world?

>>21909288
>fruit sauce from Mexico

Ketchup is American or British or something

it's definitely not Mexican

>>21909288
You're forgetting two important ingredients: the sugar from a grass seed found in Mexico for your fruit sauce and the oil from a fruit tree in West Africa to fry your root vegetables.

>>21909340
No. He's right. Convenience plays a huge role in what foods are popular. If french fries took hours to make, like a stew does, it wouldn't be a side dish with every goddamn thing. If potatoes were expensive or difficult to find, like caviar or unagi, it wouldn't be used in fast food.

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>>21909325
>>21909359

Turns out tomatoes are originally from the Andes also.

Thanks, Incabros.

I despise this deliberate retardation where you pretend to be amazed by some utterly mundane bullshit. Its pathetic.

>>21909288
Cuz you can do all sorts of things with them! Boil em. Mash em. Put em in a stew?!

>>21909380
Tomatoes are not ketchup.

Are you an idiot or are you just pretending?

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>>21909288
Potatoes are tubers not root vegetables

But this seems a bit strange to me as well. Fish & Chips is considered the quintessential English food but potatoes are from the new world. Due to the potato famine people will assume that the Irish had been living off potatoes for thousands of years.

I suspect a lot of modern cuisine is supposed to mask that people are being sold a premium to eat like poor people without realizing it. McDonalds will serve "100% Beef" but it is all the shittiest parts of the animal.

>>21909362
>oil from a fruit tree in West Africa
Real french fries are fried in tallow.

>>21909362
>ah but one detail has slipped your mind: the bat guano harvested from remote islands used to ferrilize the fields in which the root vegetables are grown, and also the metal mined from Europe that is then smelted and refined so it can be processed and shaped into devices and tools that are used to fry the root vegetable! You utter fool.
This is what you sound like.

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>>21909375
This.
>Buy frozen fries from the supplier
>Throw into fryer
>Wait a couple min
>Done
Probably no other side is that easy for a restaurant to prepare.

>>21909359
/ck/ thinks beaners invented cuisine

>>21909362
>: the sugar from a grass seed found in Mexico
You do realise that sugar cane is not native to America right?

>>21909657
Corn is.

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>>21909660
You realise that the original corn was absolute shit and Euros re-modelled corn?

The corn you eat today is not like the original . . .thank Europeans.

>>21909521
Are you saying sugar and oil are not an important reason why ketchup and fries are so popular?

And also, how come ketchup tastes basically nothing like tomatoes?

>>21909288
>fruit sauce from Mexico
ketchup is from the ocean.

>>21909288
Potatoes originally only came to Europe as a decorative flower.
How it was first rediscovered that the tuber can be eaten cannot be exactly said, but in a time of frequent famines it's not far out to see how during one of those when people were looking for anything to eat (and roots of plants are an old well known kind of food) they also ripped out the potato plants and tried the tubers.
From there new bigger sorts were cultivated and the potato started its rise all over the continent.

>>21909540
If it wasn't for the Columbian exchange, euros would still be eating gruel and cabbage today.

>>21909678
sugar and vinegar, specially a lot of sugar.

>>21909678
A sauce is its own product. The ingredients are modified during the cooking process.
Taste is also more complex than "Add vinegar - sour, add sugar - sweet", there are synergistic effects etc.
Ketchup has A LOT of sugar. It neeeds to to neutralize the sournessof the tomato and also its lectines. But all that sugar does not make taste candy sweet, if you have tomato and add more sugar the result does not taste sweeter but more tomato-y. They synergize.

>>21909325
mushroom ketchup is. tomato ketchup is American

>>21909288
Only chocomint comes from the andes -__-

>>21909340
My friend. You should kill yourself

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>>21909765
>all that sugar does not make taste candy sweet

>>21909765
>But all that sugar does not make taste candy sweet, if you have tomato and add more sugar the result does not taste sweeter but more tomato-y. They synergize.
That's because sugar, like salt and MSG, is a flavor-enhancer. A lot of anons here sperg out about muh sugar in everything, but adding sugar doesn't necessarily result in a sweet end product, a difficult concept for many. A tiny bit (or a lot in things like ketchup) can drastically improve the flavor of anything without making it taste like candy. I always put a little sugar in my chili for example.

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>>21909740
>Potatoes originally only came to Europe as a decorative flower.

This is nonsense, potatoes were a staple crop of South American Indians, do you think the Spanish didn't notice?

>>21909402
Wait till you learn that fish and chips was not even invented by the British. It combines Sephardic Jewish fried fish traditions with the Belgian fried potatoes. First chippy was founded by a Jewish immigrant, and the vinegar is also used because it came from Scandinavian and Polish Jewish palette.

>>21909958
That myth has been busted many times before.
How new are you?

>>21909340
Even if you remove either one of those words it still answers the question lmao

>>21909666
>You realise that the original corn was absolute shit
Fuck of Satan

>>21910011
>Fuck of Satan
Is that what it was called or what made it grow into the corn we know today?

>>21909340
yes it does

>>21909798
Wrong again dipshit.

>>21909288
Globalism, alhamdulillah

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