While there are a lot of theories on the origin of the word X, one common theory states that it is taken from a Chinese word for ‘brine of pickled fish‘.
Closer to the current day, X actually started with mushroom being its main ingredient in 1770.
It’s around 100 years after this, in 1870 that Henry John Y started bottling X and can now be found the world over.
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