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}}</ref> which literally means "oysters roasted with apples of paradise". Apparently, whoever devised the phrasebook was convinced that not only "ketchup", but even "''pomidor''" (the Polish word for "tomato") , would have been unfamiliar to the average Pole.
Between the World Wars, tomato ketchup (and its advertisements) was already a common sight in the United States. According to a correspondent of a Polish newspaper of that time, all dishes in America were doused with such liberal quantities of ketchup that they all tasted exactly the same.