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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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TooBigForMyBoots · 25/12/2025 20:24

It's more Generational than Regional. Padding the meat out. It was common at my granny's Sunday roasts back in the 70s. Mum never made it.

Bread sauce is the next Yorkshire Pudding.WinkGrin

BlueandWhitePorcelain · 25/12/2025 20:22

I am from the East Midlands. I was brought up with roast chicken/turkey and homemade bread sauce as standard. I made it today for me and DD1.

DH’s family always had apple sauce with the turkey, which imo is weird as it should go with pork!

Shufflebumnessie · 25/12/2025 20:22

I'd never heard of it before I started having roast dinner at my in-laws. It's disgusting!

Foxyloxy89 · 25/12/2025 20:21

From the north west and have never heard of it either. Sounds rank.

SouthernNights59 · 25/12/2025 20:19

I’m a foreigner and have only heard of it on MN. It sounds horrible.

Coffeeishot · 25/12/2025 20:18

Arran2024 · 25/12/2025 19:59

We had it (Ayrshire)

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Did you? It isn't something we had.

GlomOfNit · 25/12/2025 20:15

AngelinaFibres · 25/12/2025 17:08

It's basically liquid bread which is as disgusting in real life as it sounds.

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It absolutely is NOT liquid bread! 😂 Not unless there's a lot of cream, nutmeg and onion in your bread...

Bread sauce is ambrosia. I eat it cold out of the bowl. I'm a very recent convert - a foodie friend of mine kept banging on about it until eventually I capitulated and made some one year to see what the big deal was.

Just about the ONLY drawback to not doing a turkey this year is that bread sauce doesn't really go with rare roast beef (it goes unpleasantly pink).

Shellsandseas · 25/12/2025 20:15

Mix foreign household and not fans of it tbh.

SocksAndTheCity · 25/12/2025 20:11

London/originally Scotland and grew up with bread sauce; wouldn't eat roast chicken or turkey without it Smile

PodMom · 25/12/2025 20:08

I’m northern. It’s the best part of a roast chicken/turkey dinner.

Angelil · 25/12/2025 20:06

My mum loves it, but she’s the only one in the family who does. Frankly I don’t understand why anyone would deliberately want to pour something resembling baby vomit onto their dinner…

CalzoneOnLegs · 25/12/2025 20:04

It actually does !

Ingredients:
Bread crumbs (54%) (WHEAT flour, yeast, salt), WHEAT flour, onion powder (8%), salt, potassium chloride, sugar, yeast extract, nutmeg, thyme, flavourings. May contain milk, egg, celery and mustard

Boomer55 · 25/12/2025 20:03

I’m a Londoner. I know about it, but find it deeply unpleasant, so avoid it.

CalzoneOnLegs · 25/12/2025 20:03

I like the packet ones🤣 do they even contain bread, they’re just a nice creamy savoury sauce

BlackeyedSusan · 25/12/2025 20:01

I'd not heard of it til I met the in-laws.

Butteredtoast55 · 25/12/2025 20:00

We never had it when I was growing up but I love it now ❤️

Arran2024 · 25/12/2025 19:59

Coffeeishot · 25/12/2025 18:04

Yes this. I have only tastes bread sauce in England it was on a carvery, I don't know anybody who has it here.

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We had it (Ayrshire)

NeverDropYourMooncup · 25/12/2025 19:56

Only2daystogo · 25/12/2025 18:20

I’m from working class NE area and have heard of it but never had it. It’s odd, we don’t make a sauce out of any other carb.

You've never made a roux? Or gravy?

It's just a different way of introducing a starch to a liquid to create a sauce.

MurkyMo · 25/12/2025 19:56

Love bread sauce! I'm Irish

Dagda · 25/12/2025 19:54

in Ireland and I make my own. I love it. I’d say most people have heard of it. They sell it everywhere anyway.

Evaka · 25/12/2025 19:51

Irish and DP's family have it at Xmas, his mum grew up in Birmingham. Turns my stomach and I generally eat anything.

EBearhug · 25/12/2025 19:49

Grew up Dorset and I love decent bread sauce.

Sweat diced onion in butter, chuck in about 10 cloves and a grating of nutmeg. Can also I crude a bayleaf if you have one. Chuck in a load of milk (or cream if you're being posh) and then breadcrumbs. Possibly more milk if it's too thick. Fish out the cloves (many a childhood Sunday was spent trying to find the last one.) You can whizz it up with a hand blender if you want it smoother.

At uni, when I could extravagantly afford a chicken breast, I liked to poach it in the onion/cloves/nutmeg and add the breadcrumbs near the end to make it cooked in bread sauce.

We did not have breadsauce this year, with goose.

Halsall · 25/12/2025 19:46

I know exactly what it is but we never had it growing up, though iirc my mum once made it to have with Christmas dinner, many many years ago - she loved it but DF wasn't keen. We never had it again and I've never had it since!

DrMickhead · 25/12/2025 19:43

ScrambledEggs12 · 25/12/2025 19:30

Once I went to a carvery and covered my chicken in horseradish as I thought it was bread sauce ....

I did that too! Bloody decent carvery too. I was so upset because I love bread sauce but find horseradish overpowers a plate if you spoon it on abundantly.

Bread sauce seems to be a Christmas dinner turkey accompaniment for my family. North west.

ScrambledEggs12 · 25/12/2025 19:30

Once I went to a carvery and covered my chicken in horseradish as I thought it was bread sauce ....