I'm reading Thomas Pynchon's new novel "Mason and Dixon" ; the two
surveyors are in Capetown, South Africa to observe the transit of Venus,
and Dixon discovers Malay food (Malays brought to SA by the Dutch)
including a sauce called jetlap. At one point they are having trouble
getting it out of the bottle and a character suggests slapping the bottom
of the bottle....

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> From: Chuck Watkins <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ketchup Revision
> Date: 29 August 1997 10:08
>
> Dear Robert,
> Love the title of the lecture.  If you have not already published it,
> why not send the manuscript to the Winterthur Portfolio, which is
> always looking for good material culture articles?
> Regards,
> Chuck Watkins
>
>
>
> Robert A. Baron wrote:
> >
> > Some day I should put on paper my lecture entitled
> > "Form, Function, Neo-Classicism and Icon: The Evolution of the Heinz
> > Ketchup Bottle,"
> > but I think the title says it all.
> >
> > r.baron
> > [log in to unmask]
>
> --
> Dr. Charles A. Watkins
> Appalachian Cultural Museum
> Appalachian State University
> Boone, NC
> 704/262-3117
> email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.museum.appstate.edu