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Curry ketchup is very popular in Germany. The street food of Berlin is currywurst, which is just a sausage with curry powder and curry ketchup. The curry ketchup in Germany is not only curry-flavored but sweeter than American Heinz ketchup. So is it a different kind of ketchup or just "currywurst sauce?" Does it not count because ketchup wasn't already established as a specific taste in Germany?

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I think it does count as different kind of ketchup - however if you plot the popularity of different ketchup flavors - I am guessing you'll get a pointed peak bell curve - whereas mustard would give you a longer tail curve. My point is that examples exist (I consider BBQ sauce as a variant of ketchup) but the distribution is much skewed in favor of 1 flavor for ketchups.

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