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 ??

[GoofyIsACow]

Tramps toes!

Talc i don't know what you do for a living but based upon my observations over time you should be making people laugh in some form!

[BreconBeBuggered]

Oh. I thought soil would turn out to be those poncy skidmarks they do on the plate in restaurants on Masterchef.

[Skeppers]

Salad cream.

Buckets.

On everything.

[GoofyIsACow]

'Ere...
Soil...

[sassytheFIRST]

Ooh yes, Salad cream v wc. Mc people use mayonnaise.

ketchup pre cum

[trollkonor]

I love sauces, cheap, expensive or home made. There is a time and place for them all.

[TalcAndTurnips]

Goofy - you're too kind.

I'd be hard pushed to raise a titter in my office - they're all to busy browsing the Avon catalogue.

[TalcAndTurnips]

too busy.

[ChablisTyrant]

What about malt vinegar for chips when there is no fish on the plate?

[DoJo]

YesThisIsMe

Not the wrongness thread AFAIK - another one about a place on the Isle of Wight that allegedly served McDonalds sauce on the tables.

[DopeyDawg]

What about Scottish Chippie Shop chips with 'salt and sauce'

(and a deep fried mars bar on the side)

That's proper posh, that is

[DameDoom]

I live for a sauce me. No Sunday lunch is complete without cranberry, mint, horseradish and three types of mustard. Don't care what meat is served, I always have the lot plus white pepper and black pepper. I also keep a bottle of Reggae Reggae in my handbag. Obvs upper middle class.

[DopeyDawg]

the sauce is either red or 'broon' and is 85%vinegar to 15% colouring, I believe...

[Fatmomma99]

What an absolutely horrible thread!

[GoofyIsACow]

Ha! A busy office then talc

[GoofyIsACow]

Oh god... I explained above, as have others fatmomma it's about another thread, it's all (really obviously) tongue in cheek.

Ffs

[Fatmomma99]

I saw the other thread.

Didn't like that one either.

It's the linking it to class I really hate. I LOVE salad cream, I hate mayo (common). I love Brown Sauce, I hate Ketchup (common). And I have a posh voice which makes others frequently pigeon-hole me.

"oh me, I'm really common, right!"

"Oh, I'm so well spoken, it defines me"

It's all bollocks!

[ASettlerOfCatan]

Proud lover of ketchup and salad cream. I consider it classy because I buy Heinz -then hide it and give the kids tesco own brand because they use bucketloads of it-

[MegMurry]

We had a barbecue (for 40 ) here today.

I wanted to decant the sauces into ramekins for the tables, but was overruled.

One of said sauces was Salad Cream; a favourite of the children's for ensaladilla Rusa (ups ponce factor).

[RonaldMcDonald]

Mustard powder to be made up
Salt and Pepper
Mustard powder added to ww vinegar sugar etc to make a salad dressing
fresh horseradish
gravy

this is all

except when on holiday or in the company of strangers

[BobbyGentry]

... if we were to decant all the sauces into little ramekins then we'd have to enter the double-dip arena?!? shudders It is my opinion the Brits, on a whole, do not take the grossness of double-dipping seriously enough in comparison to other nationalities... it's a matter that hasn't hegemonically adapted in the British psyche yet! ;D

[SoljaBonita]

Using pickled onion vinegar on your chips?

[shadowfax07]

Brown sauce is frightfully common

Mum, is that you?

Is Tiptree Brown Sauce considered common, or allowable, as it's by Royal Appointment?

[camelfinger]

My ketchup musings are as follows:

Shared bottle on table with crusty bits around top - yuck
Stokes ketchup - aspirational
Sachets - acceptable if plenty of them
Silver dish with spoon - hmm, only if presentation of ketchup is pristine ie has just been dispensed for our table's use only
Individual ramekins of recently-dispensed sauce specially selected by the customer- my preferred choice, as long as quantity is sufficient

The above only applies when eating out. At home I suffer the indignity of the crusty bottle.

[DoctorTwo]

What about garlic mayo?