Sauces. And the class system.

[TealFanClub]

So let's recap to where we were with sources. Generally all extra sauces placed on the table in a pub are naff.
Mayo escapes as its continental
Ditto salad dressing but ONLY if individual oil and vinegar.
Tomato ketchup ?? Only if outside
Fish sauce ??
Soy sauce ??

[Allalonenow]

Oh I remember that Sainsburys Italian ketchup, it was fantastico! Try their TTD mayo as a change fro Hellamans, it's very good too.
I like bearnaise with braised bacon hock or hot boiled gammon joimt, a match made in heaven!

[Selks]

Maille bearnaise sauce, in a little jar. Fantastic with sausages or roast chicken. No idea what class it is.

[Tanith]

I have made my very own Horseradish sauce, grated with my own fair hands .

Once.

I will never, ever do it again! My eyes still water at the memory

[morelikeguidelines]

I love brown sauce. Does that make me common automatically or do I have to earn the honour ?

[FrankietheSquealer]

i like the Maille Hollandaise ( if not home made)

[MissPenelopeLumawoo2]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Hollandaise yet. Can I throw it in to the mix? figuratively speaking, as it were.

[BadgersNadgers]

Does Paul Newman still make his special sauce even though he is dead now?

Is he dead? Well I never.

Deadness hasn't halted Linda McCartneys veggie sausage wrangling so I expect Paul is still making his sauces from beyond the grave.

[hanami]

Gourmet Burger Kitchen have squeezy plastic tomatoes, or they certainly used to.

[SoljaBonita]

You should nick some from mickdonalds and keep it in your car, in case that happens again

[OnlyLovers]

Good for you, cath. He sounds a right twunt. Hope you've never been back! What kind of place assumes that no customer will EVER want ketchup?

[iaintdead]

Beans

[Garlick]

Chocolate soil

[Garlick]

Thanks, Goofy! "chocolate soil", bahahaha!!!

[cathcustard]

I put on my best Lady Bracknell voice and said 'what happened to the customer always being right?' Only
He was really off for the rest of our stay and probably spat in my soup.
Never got the ketchup though because apparently their discerning breakfast diners preferred to actually taste the food so it wasn't stocked.

[OnlyLovers]

Anything in little sachets is naff, IMO.

Otherwise I don't have a problem with any sauces/condiments on a pub table. In an ideal world the ketchup will be in a squeezy plastic tomato and the mustard will be kitsch American hotdog mustard.

But I'm common as they come, so what do I know?

cath, I hope you shouted back at the fucker!

[MummyPidge]

My nan used to have Italian tomato ketchup from Sainsburys when I was a kid that was the best I have ever tasted! My favourite sauce is the yogurt and mint sauce you buy in a massive squirts bottle from B&m, I have it on everything! Ketchup has to be Heinz, brown sauce has to be HP (my grandad would turn in his grave at anything else!) Mayo has to be Hellmans. mint sauce out of a jar must be mixed with extra vinegar. Apple sauce out of a jar always tastes best when it's been in the fridge about 6 months and has started to ferment

[cathcustard]

I once asked for ketchup in a pub to go with my bacon & eggs.
The Chef came out of the kitchen and shouted at me .

[Theimpossiblegirl]

I had no idea Paul Newman had died! I love his sauces and the fact that profits go to charity.

I also like ketchup in a cheese sandwich.

[limitedperiodonly]

Tomato relish is not a substitute for red sauce.

[limitedperiodonly]

I prefer Heinz ketchup to any kind of kind of upmarket home-made or bottled tomato sauce.

In fact my heart sinks when people bring it out. It's always pallid with chunky, semi-cooked onions in it.

And green bits. Could be gherkins, coriander, mould - I don't know, I just know that I don't want it.

That would be with burgers and I'd combine with English mustard.

For bacon sandwiches it's brown sauce; HP - Daddies is very downmarket. Fruity is an abomination.

After years of red sauce, I like chips with mayonnaise now, so feel I am slowly becoming middle class. I have to have salt and vinegar with fish and chips.

Whenever I play Danny Baker's Sausage Sandwich game on R5L on Saturday mornings I plump for brown sauce and if that option is taken I go for no sauce at all.

I have Dijon mustard but that option is disqualified in the rules.

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

My middle class friends visibly sneer at me when I put mint sauce on a roast beef dinner. The fact I do it because I prefer the flavour (no thanks Mustard or Horseradish), rather than conforming to social norms makes me the weirdo.

If when I asked "why do you put horseradish on?" They answered "because I prefer it" I wouldnt mind, but the response is always "because thats what you do".

I love HP on cooked breakfasts and bacon rolls.
Ketchup is only for fries and only served mixed with mayo.
Mayo can be eaten as is on salads (if dressings are lacking) or for chips or in sandwiches.
Balsamic glaze on anything with goatscheese or.mozarella.

[owlborn]

But surely you get to a point where you're being pretentious with your dainty artisan chunky tomato relish in a little china dish? And that's as middle class as fish knives.

[limitedperiodonly]

Tomato-shaped sauce bottles were standard '70s Wimpy tableware and contained red sauce - it's not called tomato ketchup.

I never used to want any though because there was always a crust round the stalk/squirter.

Sometimes it was going black

[limitedperiodonly]

I learned to make apple sauce at school - it's not that hard - and because she was so proud of my chef skills, it was the only sauce my mum allowed at Sunday dinner apart from an ancient jar of mint sauce that she topped up with malt vinegar after my dad had finished with it.

It was like the never-ending wine goblet that I remember from some fairy-tale or other except that it was filled with vinegar and mint so black it looked like tea leaves.

In the Eighties my sister introduced Ocean Spray cranberry sauce at xmas. That never went down well with my mum.

She was of the opinion that any condiment - even salt and pepper - was an insult to her cooking.

My brother was allowed brown sauce but it was never spoken about. I used to sneak it like I was a secret crack fiend.

[Cheby]

sashh you're right I am a child of the 80s.

I did used to make my own mint sauce with my gran though, picked mint from garden and mashed it up with a special roller cutter type tool, mixed with vinegar. I think that was it?

Prefer the travesty that is mint jelly these days.