"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?!

Been talking to dh about this his and he said growing up it was matty sauce in his house

Scotland here, and I would call it tomato sauce - only ever used on Macaroni Cheese in this house. We don't even own brown sauce.

Growing up in the midlands it was definitely tomato ketchup, but we didn’t eat it much because brown sauce is vastly superior. Mushroom ketchup is great in shepherds pie.

When I was growing up this condiment had it's own hierarchy.

Red sauce was any generic sauce of unknown brand,usually served from those red squeezy bottles found in cafe's and chippies.

Tomato sauce is what you started calling it once you actually learned that Red Sauce originates from tomatoes.

Ketchup was reserved solely for Heinz.

thefairyfellersmasterstroke some parts in the West of Scotland used to have those big sqeezy sauce bottles and offer you red or brown. Then they started charging for it, usually 5p. Then most changed to sachets at 5p each.

I don't know what they do now cos I haven't been in a chippy for years

@MoonlightandMusic

Thats brilliant!! I guess you never really do know a person Bet that's all you'll ever notice now! Lol

Oh.....oh......throw in the hand granade that is diluting juice.....WTAF?! I thank the Lord it took me till now to ever come across that term!

Diluting juice? That's a sin that wildly overshadows "red sauce"

Daddies is common working blass pie condiment. Hp classy.
Ketchup is classless. But wtf is red sauce?!

Bit of useless information but did you know that preparations of ketchup were historically and originally prepared with mushrooms as a primary ingredient, rather than tomatoes? So, actually, the ketchup mushroom is probably more authentic than tomato ketchup.
I haven't called ketchup red sauce since the late 1970s when I was very young though, it's definitely ketchup here!

Tomato sauce or red sauce here. Ketchup has never been used by anyone I know!

Tomato sauce
Diluting juice (to differentiate from "a can of juice")
Free parking monopoly rule

You can ask for a wee sachet of tomato sauce in the chip shop, otherwise it's just salt and soss on your white pudding supper. Or rather it should be.
I miss living in Edinburgh.

I like these people who say red sauce though. It's certainly more accurate: is ketchup really that tomatoey??

My sisters kids call it red dippy and I hadn't thought it possible to be so enraged by a 6 and 4 year old that under normal circumstances I would give my life for

@caoraich

Never heard of white pudding before! That sounds delicious I wonder if I can buy it anywhere.

I was born & bred in London - ketchup.

Moved to the Midlands - Red sauce.

A bigger confusion was the insistence of Brummies to call roundabouts "islands". Because in London "islands" are the little bits in the middle of roads with illuminated pillars for pedestrians to wait in ....

When I was growing up this condiment had it's own hierarchy.

Red sauce was any generic sauce of unknown brand,usually served from those red squeezy bottles found in cafe's and chippies.

Tomato sauce is what you started calling it once you actually learned that Red Sauce originates from tomatoes.

Ketchup was reserved solely for Heinz.

That's exactly what I grew up with. We have it here as well - red sauce is the bottle from the chip shop and Ketchup is Heinz.

We also say diluting juice. Differentiates between that and ginger/fizzy juice. My Grandad tried once to persuade us to call fizzy juice 'pop' but that didn't stick.

It's red sauce and brown sauce. Sorry we don't all meet your snobbish standards.

My 3 year old calls it dip dip

We call it tomato sauce

In our house its
red sauce - ketchup
brown sauce - HP
white sauce - salad cream

Ps that was a bit extreme I'm sorry lol. It's deffo a regional thing, I'm from NI and no one EVER says ketchup. The poshest name it has here is Tomato Sauce. I think brown sauce is just called brown sauce here regardless.

Reading back through the bottom here we call "cans of juice" tins of juice, it threw me going to Scotland and asking for a tin and getting weird looks!

We call it diluted juice here but also call Coke Pepsi etc juice as well

@DwangelaForever

Ahhh well, you see, i thought red sauce was the snobbish one!! Cos ppl didnt just want to say they eat ketchup or ask for ketchup in a resturant

@MrsOprah I'm sorry I got a bit offended without reading the post

I think that Danny Baker and his “Ref sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all” has popularised they use of “red sauce”. However, I grew up in London and knew people who said it, DH grew up in Sheffield and Gloucestershire and also says it.

I read this whole thread to see if anyone would bring up diluting juice and now I feel very pleased. Red sauce also (but def no Monopoly

So glad someone has already mentioned "rurt" - I thought I was the only one.

Since living in Scotland I have trained myself to say ketchup and to ask for a portion of chips or rather, a portion of cheesy chips. Having been met with a blank face more times than I can count when asking for a cheesy chip in the chippy (and no - I will never call it the chipper because that it a machine that makes wood chips, not a fast food establishment gavel) I have had to change to the local vernacular.

(Still say diluting juice though - squash is just super posh a bit like plimsoles but don't get me started on those)