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.
The words ketchup and catsup both come from the Malay word kechap, from the Chinese word ketsiap, a sauce made from fermented fish and brine. Pickled fish sauce may not sound all that appealing on french fries, but the Malay word kechap itself really only meant taste.. After the word migrâ¦.