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banana ketchup

noun

Etymology

From banana + ketchup. The tomato shortage in the Philippines during WWII led to the substitution of bananas and red dye.

  1. borrowed from kecap
  2. derived from 膎汁 — “fish sauce”
  3. compounded as banana ketchup — “banana + ketchup”

Definitions

  1. a condiment, a type of ketchup where the tomatoes are replaced by bananas and red food dye

    • Let us take ketchup for instance. Is there such a thing as "banana ketchup" or "papaya ketchup" so that we have to define "ketchup" as containing so much percent of tomato and nothing more?
    • […] banana ketchup, which has replaced tomato ketchup in the Philippines because of its superior flavour and much lower cost.
    • I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA