Ketchup vs. Katsup — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Ketchup and Katsup
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Definitions
Ketchup
Ketchup is a table condiment. The unmodified term ("ketchup") now typically refers to tomato ketchup, although original recipes used egg whites, mushrooms, oysters, grapes, mussels, or walnuts, among other ingredients.Tomato ketchup is a sweet and tangy condiment made from tomatoes, sugar, and vinegar, with seasonings and spices.
Katsup
Archaic form of ketchup
Ketchup
A spicy sauce made chiefly from tomatoes and vinegar, used as a relish.
Ketchup
A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.
Ketchup
(uncountable) A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.
Tomato ketchup
This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
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Ketchup
Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.).
Ketchup
(transitive) To cover with ketchup.
Ketchup
A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc.
Ketchup
Thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes