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.
As far as we currently know, there is NOT A CONNECTION between this Edward (Chetham) Ketcham/Ketchum who came to America and the Chetham family of Crumpsall, Lancashire, England from which Sir Humphrey Chetham (born 1580) is from, for whom the Chetham Library in Manchester England is named.