"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?!

Sos coch here

Red or tomato sauce or ketchup all go here (north west). When I went to boarding school though, it was Tommy K. I'd never heard that until there. I don't know if it had been picked up from a certain pupil from a certain region or it's what posh people say. All you Tommy K people, please reveal.

Double, sounds amazing! Definitely getting some next time I go.

I always remember Tommy K from that b&b the best programme. They had a really really posh couple and the man (all salmon pink trousers and sweater tied round the neck) said his wife christina hamilton wouldn't allow baked beans or Tommy K with her full English as she said it was common. He had loads when he went to all the other b&bs and she scowled at him.

Unicorn - What is Chippy Sauce? (i'm a bit scared the answer!)

In Ireland here, red sauce is a common way to refer to ketchup.

I hate the term red sauce too. And ketchup. It's tomato sauce.

Unicorn81, what's the difference between brown sauce and HP sauce?

Hmm, so, having done a v. rough survey of the terminology used in MrsOprah's thread, it would seem that the following applies:

Across 258 messages, the below 9 variations were mentioned (obvs some cross-over as I didn't strip out duplicates). Total mentions were 349 and "red sauce" seems to be the most popular. Numbers in bold are percentages, numbers not bolded are actual figures.

Name %-age #
Red sauce 34 118
Ketchup 31 108
Tomato Sauce 19 68
Tomato Ketchup 5 19
Tommy K 4 15
Dip dip 3 9
Dippy 2 6
Sos coch 1 5
Tomato saucer 0 1

Where are you op? We have red or brown sauce here. Merseyside

Ummm but a mention doesn't mean popular. Especially as the thread is asking whether people say red sauce and a lot are saying no.

lalalalyra Aye! Diluting juice here too. Unless it's Ribena, which is simply referred to as Ribena.

A can of ginger and anything fizzy is ginger. It's never a can of juice. Juice is flat.

whats true, perhaps I should have phrased that as 'most frequent'. Mind you, other than for "sos coch" and "tomato saucer", as stated in my previous post I haven't removed duplicate references (where a poster mentions another term, but then states what term they use) so everything's 'indicative' only.

My DM used to swill a bit of vinegar to get the last knockings out of the bottom of the bottle. It i

I grew up saying red sauce (east London).

I also love the cheap cheap cafe stuff, as it’s just diluted with vinegar (yum)

Tomato sauce.

We would ask "red or brown?" in our family when making sausage or bacon sandwiches

South east and we say this, always have. I use both and tend to reserve red sauce for family only and ketchup out and about

Tomato sauce or ketchup here.
I didn't realise mushroom ketchup was posh or rare.It is the same consistency a Worcester sauce and is for putting into stews etc when you taste it and it needs a little something,adds a nice savoury was.

savouryness,auto correct gone mad.