"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?!

I grew up in Switzerland. I say Ketschöp.

@Tawdrylocalbrouhaha
Sorry, we were already informed ireland, yes the whole island, says red sauce. You may be the irish anomaly

"ya sattann ann?" this, is brilliance

Red sauce, brown sauce or..... no sauce at all?

We say red sauce - NW, near Wales.

But I think I grew up saying red sauce, and I grew up as a Marshwiggle.

BUT my mother grew up in the NW. So probably cyclical?

Must be a pile on the side of the plate and not drizzled over, because it's cold and wet and makes the rest of the food go prematurely cold and flaccid. You need a HOT CRISP-EDGED chip briefly dipped into cold red sauce and then immediately into fat gob.

In the US red sauce refers to Mariana sauce served over pasta. Ketchup is called ketchup.

@RightOnTheEdge

Oh yea....I've heard ketchup sauce
But it provides me weird joy and amusement. It's allowed (for small aged humans only)

In Scottish takeaways the always ask if you want red sauce. Then they say "ya sattann ann?" Which means "eat in or take away?".

Speaking of which, when I first took DH to a proper Scottish chipper, he looked at the sausages in the hot display thing and thought he'd rather like two of them. So he asked for "two sausages and chips, please".

We got odd looks when I ordered something else, but thought nothing of it (maybe they thought it was greedy to have two sausages).

Reader, he was served two plates of sausages and chips, each with three sausages. Because they had logically translated the English "two sausages and chips" > "2x(sausage and chips)" > "two sausage suppers". I had to roll him home.

Now he knows to ask for a "sausage supper". Even at lunchtime.

I can't be a total anomaly, I assure you South County Dublin uses the term ketchup.

I gaped in bewilderment the first few times I heard yasattannann.

In our house it's known as 'Blob'

Blob? Christ almighty, that's fucking awful, brings the most unpleasant associations to mind...

I only came on this thread to see if anyone said red sauce, brown sauce ....or no sauce at all.

Oh and DH was baffled by "sattanan" too. Especially when he learned that the usual response is in fact "Na, carry oot".

Red Sauce
Brown Sauce

West Midlands

@alphajuliet123

I have a friend who calls it Tommy C. He is unable to explain what the C stands for.

May i boldly suggest you go no contact?! There's no hope there

Seems to be a bit of a mix round here. All variations are heard

Red sauce with my family in Northern Ireland.

As for tommy C, well there’s no hope!

Maybe the c is for catchup?

Isnt catsup an American thing a bit like ketchup?

MrsHathaway I had the opposite problem when living in England. Went in to chippy and asked for 'a chip' which anyone from NI knows means a portion of chips. Cue lots of baffled looks and being asked, 'you want a chip! One single chip!'

Oh and always red sauce here.

Tomato sauce here or tomato dip...only DD couldn't say that when little so it's nartoe dip

Scottish here it’s red vs brown sauce 🙈

Tommy k annoys me

Lived in the States for a while as a child so call it ketchup. I use "tomato sauce" to refer to the sauce with tomatoes in that's made to go with pasta.

Mind you, just mentioned to DH that thought it was strange so many people used TS for ketchup to be given a v.v.puzzled/slightly worried look as apparently that's what he calls it...I may never have noticed this before in the 20-odd years of knowing him - oops.

Tommy K is one of the few things said that actually make me feel peculiar. It's just so wrong.

It's Tomato Ketchup here.

Brown sauce - because there is no other name other than the brand (As an aside my grandparents called everything by it's brand 'ohh we have kelloggs and PG tips at breakfast, then a tin of heinz with a dash of Lee and Perrins for lunch, Fray Bentos for dinner...it drove me mad).

Brown sauce is the only thing that goes on a bacon/sausage sarnie or scrambled eggs on toast in this house. We only have Tomato Ketchup for the DC.

We have Mayo on chips.

red sauce here is a chopped tomatoes and frozen veg concoction when I am too lazy to cook proper dinner.

Tomato sauce.

Have never heard of it being called 'red sauce' until this thread.