banana ketchup

English

Etymology

banana +‎ ketchup. The tomato shortage in the Philippines during WWII led to the substitution of bananas and red dye.

Noun

banana ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural banana ketchups)

1. (food) a condiment, a type of ketchup where the tomatoes are replaced by bananas and red food dye
   • 1965, Science Review, volumes 6-8, page 43:

     Let us take ketchup for instance. Is there such a thing as "banana ketchup" or "papaya ketchup" so that we have to define "ketchup" as containing so much percent of tomato and nothing more?

   • 1996, M. Flach, Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates, page 126:

     […] banana ketchup, which has replaced tomato ketchup in the Philippines because of its superior flavour and much lower cost.

   • 2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36:

     I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.