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People who have never heard of bread sauce?

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TheBlueRobin · 25/12/2025 16:44

Sent a photo of my Christmas dinner to a friend. She asked what the white stuff was and whether it was horseradish.

I said 'No, bread sauce.'

She said she had never heard of it. Asked her family and they had never heard of it either.

Wonder it's a regional thing? Her family are from Somerset but also some from Lancashire. My partner is Welsh and never heard of it either. I'm from the Midlands.

I thought it was fairly universal? Dependent on preference ofc.

YABU - I've not heard of bread sauce /it's not a common thing.
YANBU - of course I've heard of it

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TheBlueRobin · 26/12/2025 07:59

So my takeaway from this post - age, region or class dooesn't come into it. I think it's more about family tradition and you're more likely to enjoy it if you grew up with it?

Photo of my dinner below - pre gravy pouring!!!

People who have never heard of bread sauce?
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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 26/12/2025 07:52

EBearhug · 26/12/2025 00:03

I am now considering haggis with bread sauce. This is entirely your fault, Gasp0de.

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Sounds great! Would be interested to hear your verdict.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 26/12/2025 01:23

It was something I never had growing up in the Midlands until a works Christmas dinner - I think I prefer to gravy actually.

SnowFrogJelly · 26/12/2025 01:18

YANBU we always had it with roast chicken growing up

hulahooper2 · 26/12/2025 00:45

scottish and heard of it but not particularly common here , tried it once and not particularly keen on it

DeepBlueDeer · 26/12/2025 00:43

Awful stuff.

Theslummymummy · 26/12/2025 00:34

AuntyAngela · 26/12/2025 00:31

Gasps

Nigella has it in her Christmas book!! Maybe it depends on the bread used?

Mother’s Pride – working class.
Warburtons – middle class by default.
50/50 – middle class but trying to be sensible.
Wholemeal – concerned about fibre.
Sourdough – aspiring middle class.
Artisan sourdough – upper middle in theory.
Rye – regretful.
Don't know or care - upper class.

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Soda bread- aristocracy

Leapintothelightning · 26/12/2025 00:33

I’m Scottish and 33.
I have heard of it but have never had it and don’t actually know what it is! Definitely not a Christmas dinner staple in my family

AuntyAngela · 26/12/2025 00:31

Theslummymummy · 25/12/2025 16:56

I think it's a working class thing

Gasps

Nigella has it in her Christmas book!! Maybe it depends on the bread used?

Mother’s Pride – working class.
Warburtons – middle class by default.
50/50 – middle class but trying to be sensible.
Wholemeal – concerned about fibre.
Sourdough – aspiring middle class.
Artisan sourdough – upper middle in theory.
Rye – regretful.
Don't know or care - upper class.

elm26 · 26/12/2025 00:06

Surrey here and I LOVE bread sauce and I actually have it with every roast I make 😂

EBearhug · 26/12/2025 00:03

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 25/12/2025 23:59

Lots of things look awful and taste great. Haggis, for example.

I am now considering haggis with bread sauce. This is entirely your fault, Gasp0de.

hakunamatata20 · 26/12/2025 00:00

I love bread sauce! My mum and dad always served it with Christmas dinner and they are from Lincolnshire/Midlands way. My husband from Merseyside had never heard if it.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 25/12/2025 23:59

Lots of things look awful and taste great. Haggis, for example.

catontheironingboard · 25/12/2025 23:54

My mum loves it so she has always made it if she’s doing any kind of poultry roast dinner. I don’t like it so we don’t have it when we do!

IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour · 25/12/2025 23:53

I’ve heard of it but we don’t have it on our dinners

Bananalanacake · 25/12/2025 23:49

I am British living in Germany. I can confirm that German people don't like it or are wary of it. I make a pan of it every year with the BBC good food recipe, not a single one of DH's family touches it. Fine, so I stick what's left into takeaway boxes and freeze them. Then I have a portion for future roast dinners.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 25/12/2025 23:05

I’ve heard of it but never had it. It looks awful 🙈

mamajong · 25/12/2025 23:04

Yanbu this is a non negotiable for me at xmas, simple to make and delicious on sprouts!

silverwrath · 25/12/2025 22:59

Coffeeishot · 25/12/2025 18:07

Sort of rice puddingy texture and it tastes of cloves

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That's about right. Yuk.

Dontgochasingrainbows · 25/12/2025 22:57

I don't know what it is either. thought it was another name for bread stuffing until I saw the photo someone posted in the thread. It looks like porridge?

Feelikedancing · 25/12/2025 22:54

Love bread sauce always have it at Christmas have done in all my 58 yrs, I'm in Yorkshire.

LongBreath · 25/12/2025 22:53

honeyfox · 25/12/2025 17:04

Irish and never had it.

Yes, I know what it is, but I don’t think we eat it much in Ireland.

Lisanne55 · 25/12/2025 22:49

I had never heard of bread sauce until I was an adult.

StupidHappyClocks · 25/12/2025 22:40

I was born and bred in London (Irish parents) and was well into adulthood before I ever heard of it. We never had it growing up, nobody I knew ever mentioned it, was never on the menu for Christmas meals in restaurants etc. It was a mystery to me.

Cant say I feel I’ve missed out 🤢

sakura06 · 25/12/2025 22:36

I love it! I’m Welsh. I told my grandparents when I was little that I would happily live on new potatoes with bread sauce for life.