Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?


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"'Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."- Marcus Aurelius

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

One of the few books I'm going to keep, is his.
 



There is no clear and known link between garum and Worchestershire sauce, which is produced very differently from garum.

Worchestershire sauce was created by, you guessed it, John Lea and William Perrins, and commercialized in 1837. Where they got the recipe is unknown, but they claimed various inspirations from India and Asia.
I didn’t claim a direct link only that fish sauce has been in Europe for some time. I was not aware that the creators of Worcestershire sauce claimed inspiration, I don’t really see it. But then I don’t know what fish sauces were available from India or China at the time.

An equally likely theory though would be to claim inspiration to make the sauce more exotic for advertising reasons, very common at the time.

Anyways, I’m a big fan of these fish sauces regardless.

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