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banana ketchup en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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? 1965, Science Review, volumes 6-8, page 43:
   • I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines. 2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36:
   • […] banana ketchup, which has replaced tomato ketchup in the Philippines because of its superior flavour and much lower cost. 1996, M. Flach, Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates, page 126:

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