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      8 months ago

      Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)

      I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…

      I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…

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          8 months ago

          Anchovy paste makes sense, much like using soy sauce or fish sauce or miso paste or even tomato paste does. You just don’t use a ton of it. It doesn’t necessarily taste fishy, but it adds a lot of umami and salt. It improves most soups, for example.