Sauces. And the class system.

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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 ??

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

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!

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.

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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?

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

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

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.

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

i like the Maille Hollandaise ( if not home made)

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

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

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

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!