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The supporting actor that keeps stealing the scene from the main course.
means A sauce, spice, or seasoning added to food to boost its flavor.
from From Latin condimentum, meaning spice or seasoning, rooted in condire, to preserve or pickle — a nod to flavor's ancient day job: stopping rot.
Ketchup's pastOriginally a fermented Asian fish sauce, not tomato.
Mustard originNamed from must, the unfermented grape juice it once mixed with.
Sold as medicine19th-century ketchup was peddled as a digestive cure.