But the worldwide audience for the Oscars isnât even close to a billion, as a little common sense makes plain. In the United States, 43.5 million people watched the show last year. Thatâs a lot, but itâs 956.5 million short of a billion.
None of that weirdness can, however, hold a candle to the original catsup, which came to us from China via Malaysia, and was known as âke-tsiapâ or âkechap,â meaning roughly âfish sauce.â Indeed, this âkechapâ was from pickled fish and brine, and used as a dipping sauce.
My research sort of confirms that it, more than likely, originated in the British military but it's not certain. It was supposed to have gotten its name when a GI made himself one of these egg sandwiches, and when he bit into it, the yolk exploded and dripped onto his shirt, causing him to whisk of the drops with his fingers like strumming a banjo.