banana ketchup

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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banana ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural banana ketchups)

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