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 ??

[TealFanClub]

Hooked one in. Well done fatmomma ??

[LeonardoAcropolis]

This will rock the foundations of society.... you can buy a tomato shaped squeezy bottle in......Lakeland

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

Only sauces worth having is tarragon sauce on chicken or archiduc sauce for steak. HTH.

[SaveOurBogBrushes]

are* oops. That's what you get for becoming over excited about sauces and adding another one.

[RachelRagged]

Brown sauce is frightfully common ??

Oh well, me and mine must be very common then !!

DFO

[RachelRagged]

Oh its to do with "class" I see .

PROUD WORKING CLASS

[sashh]

I don't think I have ever actually seen a sauce-serving plastic tomato in real life. I've seen one on grange hill once I think. Does this make me middle class?

No it means you were not a child in the 1970s

[Bonsoir]

Mustard and mint sauce (decanted into a suitable dish) are the only bottled sauces that are acceptable.

[TealFanClub]

oh no one MAKES mint sauce

[RachelRagged]

Oh I have seen the sauce dispensing tomato type thing ,Wimpy used to have them . .Still do in fact as we have one a bus ride away ,

[GoofyIsACow]

Fatmomma i am afraid that says more about you than anyone else imo.

The entire top shelf of our (huge american style) fridge is all manner of sauce. Every sauce you can imagine!

[GoofyIsACow]

My great aunt used to make mint jelly, it was amazing on EVERYTHING!!

[Haahooooo]

We have a gun for our sauces. You can load it with either a ketchup or a mustard cartridge.

The kids love it except they are 2 and 1 and can't use it

[Hoppinggreen]

We have a plastic tomato shaped tomato sauce container but we use it in an ironic way and got it from Lakeland if that makes a difference

[RachelRagged]

Haahoooo , where did you get that ? Sounds fab

[Haahooooo]

It was a gift so unfortunately don't know where it was bought. From my brother who lives in Holland...

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[limitedperiodonly]

Tomato relish is not a substitute for red sauce.

[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.

[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 .