[me_me_me]

Tomatoes are relatively late addition to european cuisine (1500ish), there would be influences from a silk for centuries before. It sounds quite probable.

[SeanLuke]

This comment sounds like you might mistakenly think tomatoes are Chinese.

[me_me_me]

I meant the origin for the word ketchup might have came as word for some type of sauce from the silk road, or tale of it from merchants eating it while traveling the silk road

[huytersd]

Not sure exactly what you’re saying but the Europeans brought tomatoes to India and East Asia.

[supertofu]

A reminder that tomatoes are native to South America, and did not exist anywhere else until colonization of the Americas.

[okr]

Thank god for coloni, umm, borderless migration of people!