"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?!

Wow, if anything I'm amazed my ears weren't offend soooner. So many "red sauce" folks around. Eek!

Where do people say red sauce?! I was brought up on the tautological 'tomato ketchup', but also heard 'tomato sauce' and 'ketchup'. Always 'brown sauce' though (I agree: HP or Daddies)

My mum says red sauce. I say tomato sauce

I was brought up on the tautological 'tomato ketchup'

It isn’t a tautology-you can get other sorts of ketchup, eg mushroom (I watch masterchef!)

@CherryChasingDotMuncher
I know right!

It's ketchup!
Tomato sauce is the one you eat with pasta.

Red sauce here since my childhood (East Midlands)

DH says ketchup despite growing up with a mile of each other. However he also keeps it in the cupboard not the fridge. Is he odd or am I nouveau riche? I lived exclusively in cul de sacs until 2 years ago.

No, that's pasta sauce or tomato puree.

Purpledaisies that's true actually, isn't it? I shall continue saying 'tomato ketchup' safe in the knowledge that I am not in fact committing a tautological crime

In Welsh we call it "Sôs coch" so a translation would be red sauce. Some Welsh speakers say red sauce instead of ketchup.

@MelvinThePenguin
White dippy sauce!! For mayonnaise.....I'm wounded, please, I'm losing the will.
[faints]

Mushroom ketchup!! @purpledaisies what?!

'Tomato sauce' for me, though I don't object to 'red sauce' - it would be a tad illogical because I happily say 'brown sauce'.

Not all ketchup is tomato ketchup, although other varieties have pretty much disappeared.

You’re definitely safe dahlietta.

In the welsh valleys, it’s usually red sauce.

How do you feel about 'tommy k'?

Red sauce or brown sauce was the option in a distinctly unposh region of the north west for my chips from a greasy spoon 20years ago.

In West Yorkshire it's ONLY red sauce. I was very confused when I first got here

You'd hate my house. When DS first started to talk he called it "dippy", and dippy it has stayed.

Mushroom ketchup!! @purpledaisies what?!

I’ve never had it but you see it in hipster restaurants and posh food shops. It looks disgusting.

Oh hang on....good point, tomato sauce is for pasta.

Seems it's ketchup / tomato ketchup only then.

However, let's argree tomato sauce isn't a substitute for saying tomato puree.

Surely, if you send out a shopping list saying tomato sauce, it's often coming back with puree for your chunky chips? The horror!

They have mushroom ketchup in Tesco.

Sometimes we go and look at as though it's an exhibit in a freak show.

Ditti chopped up octopus in jars.

Mushroom ketchups lovely in stews and casseroles! I also make gooseberry ketchup every year which is divine with cold meats.

Anyway back to the op - afraid it's known as tommy k in our house.

Surely, if you send out a shopping list saying tomato sauce, it's often coming back with puree for your chunky chips?

Tomato purée is a cooking ingredient, not a sauce. I could understand someone coming back with a jar of dolmio type stuff though.