Catsup and ketchup....same delicious thing.....
In Italy there are also 2 ways of calling ketchup....
One is Ketchup, the other is Rubra....which is the old term, Rubra is a sauce typical from Piemonte (the region I live in) and typically served with "Bollito misto piemontese"- piedmontese style Mixed boiled meats, Rubra is nothing but the Piedmontese twin brother of Ketchup, the use of Rubra word to mean ketchup spread out more in to the rest of Italy during the fascism as Mussolini banned all the words which were not italian, and created italianized words for otherwise foreign terms.
Older persons which are not particularly into foreign languages and pronunce, have difficulties in pronunce the word ketchup, for example the granma of a friend called it Cip&Ciap! LOL My paternal side granma calls it "checa"! LOL
So they use Rubra, 90% of people calls it Ketchup, but you may still hear older ones calling it Rubra.
I can find just one "Rubra" labelled item sold in supermarkets today, and it is from the Italian Cirio brand....all the others switched to the international word "ketchup".
[this post was last edited: 8/22/2014-10:45]
