"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 can't even remember what we called it before kids but it's 'dip dip' and everyone in the family calls it that now.

Oh and I still ask for a tin of coke - can't say can - just doesn't sound right to me.

Oh and mayonnaise is called ghost dip dip 🙄 or flabby egg.

I don't think we say anything properly 🤔

You know that raspberry sauce you get on ice cream?
In some parts they call it monkeys blood
It's quite alarming when you are 3 and the ice cream man asks if you want monkeys blood on your 99

🤣

I hate the word “ketchup”.

Me too. It's on a par with belly, portion and panties.

It's tomato sauce here

Ketchup here. Brown sauce for HP and dip dip is Houmous.

Southerner.

I think that Danny Baker and his “Ref sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all” has popularised they use of “red sauce”

He does nostalgia very well. It was red sauce and brown sauce when I was growing up in Essex and we're all about the same age as him. It's tomato sauce now but I've started to say red sauce again to identify other listeners of the Sausage Sandwich Game.

When I play that game I always go for brown sauce but in real life I go for smooth Dijon these days

I'm Scottish and have only ever heard red sauce on tv. Tomato sauce here or dip dip for DS. Kept in the cupboard.

It's always diluting juice, never squash, although "juice" alone covers everything from fruit juice to Coke. My DGPs would have distinguished by using "ginger" for anything fizzy but that's another can of worms.

When my brother started seeing the girl who was to become his wife he told us that round her house, they had Daddies brown sauce .

My mum bought a bottle of Daddies for when she came round to make her feel at home but continued buying HP for us because brown sauce is HP. We wouldn't touch anything else. She did eventually convert which I think is the key to their long and happy marriage.

Welsh here and red sauce or tomato sauce works if you go out for food :) we cell it red sauce in the house. It also goes in the cupboard.

Sorry, not sorry lol

Makes my teeth itch more than red sauce

All sauces in squeeze bottles are known by their colours here.

Red, white (garlic), yellow (salad cream), brown (bbq), and pink (burger).

Slightly confusingly, onion chutney and redcurrant jelly are both known as jam. So my son will ask for cheese on toast with jam (chutney), or he and his cousins will sit at a family roast dinner raising a chorus of “more jam please, Nanny” (jelly).

Ha EvilEdna - the sausage sandwich game is my favourite bit of radio every week.

@Poshjock there's no better sauce than chippy sauce slathered on a battered pizza

I'm in east Scotland & I say ketchup but have heard red sauce frequently over the years... but Tommy K eh that's just a no

I use both. I think it might come from households that regularly use red sauce and brown sauce.

I'm from NW England and always called it red sauce as did everyone else I knew...it's not brown sauce...so it's red.

When I moved to London and it was suddenly Tomato Ketchup or Tomato sauce I was annoyed and thought it an Americanism.

I am 45 so it'sdefinitely not a new thing.

Ketchup is always blood sauce in our house
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Years back, in the USA, we couldn't get English stuff, so we used to have Brand's A1 sauce. We children used to read the blurb on the bottle in chorus, ending with "so this sauce can rightly be described as ....A1

Still read sauce bottles labels.

We say ketchup. Growing up it was Tommy Sauce. Obviously short for Tomato Sauce but my dad always said it was because Tommy down the road really liked it.

YABU it's red sauce

Yorkshire here and I grew up saying red sauce/brown sauce. Sometimes call it tomato sauce. I always thought that ketchup sounded American.

I studied on the North East (18yrs ago ) everywhere in the city centre where we used to go for breakfast butties always asked if we wanted "red or brown sauce" - took me a while to realise what they meant ?!

It's tomato sauce where I live now although I have noticed that places like KFC and McDonalds do seem to call it ketchup

I grew up saying red sauce. Now it's more tomato sauce. I'd never even heard of the word ketchup until MacDonalds arrived in the UK, probably mid to late eighties.

Red sauce or ketchup here. Salt and sauce isn't an east coast thing in scotland - it's an Edinburgh thing.

Scottish chipipes are fabulous places. I remember ordering a cheeseburger for the first time - expecting a burger and cheese in a roll. I got a battered deep fried burger WITH THE CHEESE IN THE MIDDLE!!!!!!

a battered deep fried burger WITH THE CHEESE IN THE MIDDLE!!!!!!

These are amazing aren't they

tomato ketchup here.
am in Scotland so it is diluting juice and cans of juice, not tins.
DS's Friday treat is a sausage supper with "everything on" which means it comes covered in salt, vinegar and brown sauce. This handy phrase negates the need to worry about terminology.