Medicine?!
Did you know?!
Ketchup used to be prescribed as medicine.
A physician named John Cook started selling ketchup in 1834 when he added tomatoes to the concoction. Cook claimed his medicine could cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism.
In 1850, the ketchup medicine empire collapsed after people realized ketchup did nothing, although probably ended up being more profitable as a way to make food taste better instead of as a health product.
Who would have believed it?!
Good for a laughs t least!
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As a child I thrived on ketchup sandwiches. I remain healthy at age 68–maybe the ketchup had something to do with it!, lol!
I remember that so well! Yes! I am sure it had lots to do with it!