"Red sauce".....you mean ketchup!!

[MrsOprah]

I keep hearing people saying red sauce, it's only recently I've ever heard this....jad ketchup suddenly become a dirty word?!

Ketchup for me thanks to American parents.
I had some Malay friends at college and we would cook together. They thought calling tomato sauce ketchup was hilarious because to them katsap just means any sauce at all, usually chili.

Red dippy in our house (named by the kids!)

"Yellow sauce" should be mustard, not salad cream, surely?

I always thought "red sauce" was the posh version, which seemed odd as to me it sounded a bit dim - like asking for "some of the green things" if you meant peas...

The worst horror of all though (as a Brit*) was going on holiday to somewhere where American English was widely spoken as a second language. Had to say tomAYto sauce to be understood.

It’s called “tommy k” here!

She did eventually convert which I think is the key to their long and happy marriage.
@limitedperiodonly

I do not dobut that for a moment, that is the key ;)

Evidently i cant type on a phone

DD to DS when she was aged 2 "pass me the Tombanato sauce". DS aged 8 patiently said "you mean tomato sauce". To which she replied " that's what I said TOM BAN AT O" in a very long drawn out dramatic way. We still call it TOMBANATO sauce.

It is @MrsOprah

Well Salsa Verde is quite posh and that's green sauce. How about Salsa Rosso? Very Hyacinth Bucket.

Actually educated people pronounce it catsup

Tomato sauce

I called it tomato sauce growing up, now I would probably say ketchup.

I also said brown sauce as a child, and now I usually say HP. My grandmother called that "daddy's sauce", but still usually bought HP brand.

My DD is a fan of Rot-Weiss (ie red-white) sauce from Germany (those of a sensitive disposition may wish to look away now). It is ketchup and mayo, in a squeezy tube like a toothpaste tube, and it comes out in red and white stripes, like toothpaste .

Double - When DS1 was 3 he only ate things covered in mayo and ketchup. He had to have a blob of each on each side of his plate and he would swirl his chips round and round. It started like a yin yang symbol and soon became a big pink mess. Like having marie rose sauce on everything.

My ds always calls Mayo 'egg sauce'

Double urgh

I've just been doing an Ocado order, and noticed that they sell banana ketchup

(No I'm not going to take one for the team and try it)

"My DD is a fan of Rot-Weiss (ie red-white) sauce from Germany (those of a sensitive disposition may wish to look away now). It is ketchup and mayo, in a squeezy tube like a toothpaste tube, and it comes out in red and white stripes, like toothpaste"

That sounds brilliant. After all, it's just prawn cocktail's sauce marie-rose, but unmixed.

That sounds so foul I almost can't resist buying some to see what the hell it tastes like!

Tom sauce here too - you should do a poll

From the NW and everybody (I know) here says either red sauce or tomato sauce. I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody say ketchup other than when we go to McDonald’s

^^ same here, but in the West Mids

Not sure how you make your marie rose sauce Rose. But that isn't how i make mine! Blurch.

Yep, I’ve only every known Marie Rose sauce to be a mix of tomato ketchup and mayonnaise, and seasoning. As explained here. It was the height of sophistication in my grandparents’ horse!

Yes it's the 'seasonings' that are part of the recipe. Worcester sauce, lemon juice, tabasco, paprika, a dash of cream etc. It's not just Ketchup and mayo.

Brown sauce = chippy sauce
Not to be confused with HP which we just call HP, for use on steak pie, fry up type food and yorkshire puddings