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The tomato's most successful career pivot, weaponizing sugar to colonize every plate.
means A thick, sweet-tangy tomato condiment that somehow goes on everything Americans deny is too American.
from From the Hokkien ke-tsiap, a fermented fish sauce; tomatoes crashed the recipe in 1800s America and never left.
Original flavorFishy, not fruity — no tomatoes involved.
Famous lawsuitReagan-era rule once counted it as a vegetable.
Physics villainIt is a non-Newtonian fluid, hence the wait.