16 July: Ketchup originally a medicine?: cool things I learnt today

So today I’m not feeling so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet.

In the 1830s ketchup was marketed as a medicine that could help diarrhoea, indigestion and jaundice

Dr John Cook Bennett invented it

He did it in the form of pills (idk how, sounds suspicious )

tomato is acidic so likely made these problems worse (if no effect at all)

This stopped in the 1850’s (Thank g-d!)

now it is a delicious condiment for chips 🍟 ( a much better use if you ask me )

Whoever came up with using it as a condiment in my opinion is either a genius or crazy.
People do use milkshakes as a condiment for chips so I guess anything can happen!