Treasury building, tennis players on a bridge, a poster advertising catsup — categorized with the evocative label “Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.”

Sometimes I made spaghetti with catsup and any kind of cut-up, leftover meat from the night before.

The ‘blood’ shed was catsup, and”—the technician chuckled—“the only suffering Mr. Jarry underwent was having to go an entire day without a shot of whisky.”

When we got to “Pet Peeves,” Miles said, “When people say ‘catsup’ instead of ‘ketchup.’

After his initial company went bankrupt, he launched a new one and began bottling tomato “ketchup,” spelled that way to distinguish it from other catsup brands.