but ketchup came to me like a tangy and savory vinegar based sauce. in 1812, an american author suggested making it with with tomatoes, which added a much more pleasant flavor. it did create certain storage problems. early versions of tomato took a long time to make, and tomatoes weren't fresh for very. and so it would rot and have various efforts to preserve it with things like coal tar, which i'm amazing has a downside to your health. if you consume it. but eventually in the later century, h.j. heinz is going to figure out a way you can preserve it using just vinegar. and then it becomes kind of this all purpose condiment, right? but again, it's roots. it first appears as a recipe. and these years of the american republic. all right. after all this buildup, let's finally make a connection, a connection to jackson andrew jackon and the republicans simplicity, food, culture of the 1790s dovetail tales with sort of jacksonian politics and social views of the 1820s. or, i would argue they do. and i illustrate that through the most famous author of the t