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Two bowls on a table: an amber sauce and a red tomato sauce.

ketchup

What do we do when the map has a blank?

What do you notice?

Often tomato, now

ketchup

Hokkien: fish brine, a strong lead

膎汁

The best trail is not tomato. It is also not closed.

Ketchup did not begin as a tomato sauce.

The older sauces were spiced, sometimes fishy. Tomato is later.

Read a ketchup label. If it is tomato, you are looking at a later chapter. The older word was willing to mean other sauces.

You can stop here. The word already moved.

Go find a traveling word

The screen was the door.

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