Plus, we Americans were the ones who created tomato-based ketchup. If it weren’t for James Mease and Henry Heinz, we might still put England’s stale beer and anchovy ketchup on our fries.

So what happened to all those varieties of ketchup? Tomatoes. The 1812 recipe from James Mease is the first appearance of tomatoes in ketchup. But wait, what about Heinz, the ketchup we know and love?