People who have never heard of bread sauce?

[TheBlueRobin]

Sent a photo of my Christmas dinner to a friend. She asked what the white stuff was and whether it was horseradish.

I said 'No, bread sauce.'

She said she had never heard of it. Asked her family and they had never heard of it either.

Wonder it's a regional thing? Her family are from Somerset but also some from Lancashire. My partner is Welsh and never heard of it either. I'm from the Midlands.

I thought it was fairly universal? Dependent on preference ofc.

YABU - I've not heard of bread sauce /it's not a common thing.
YANBU - of course I've heard of it

I'd not heard of it til I met the in-laws.

I like the packet ones🤣 do they even contain bread, they’re just a nice creamy savoury sauce

I’m a Londoner. I know about it, but find it deeply unpleasant, so avoid it.

It actually does !

Ingredients:
Bread crumbs (54%) (WHEAT flour, yeast, salt), WHEAT flour, onion powder (8%), salt, potassium chloride, sugar, yeast extract, nutmeg, thyme, flavourings. May contain milk, egg, celery and mustard

My mum loves it, but she’s the only one in the family who does. Frankly I don’t understand why anyone would deliberately want to pour something resembling baby vomit onto their dinner…

I’m northern. It’s the best part of a roast chicken/turkey dinner.

London/originally Scotland and grew up with bread sauce; wouldn't eat roast chicken or turkey without it

Mix foreign household and not fans of it tbh.

It absolutely is NOT liquid bread! 😂 Not unless there's a lot of cream, nutmeg and onion in your bread...

Bread sauce is ambrosia. I eat it cold out of the bowl. I'm a very recent convert - a foodie friend of mine kept banging on about it until eventually I capitulated and made some one year to see what the big deal was.

Just about the ONLY drawback to not doing a turkey this year is that bread sauce doesn't really go with rare roast beef (it goes unpleasantly pink).

Did you? It isn't something we had.

I’m a foreigner and have only heard of it on MN. It sounds horrible.

From the north west and have never heard of it either. Sounds rank.

I'd never heard of it before I started having roast dinner at my in-laws. It's disgusting!

I am from the East Midlands. I was brought up with roast chicken/turkey and homemade bread sauce as standard. I made it today for me and DD1.

DH’s family always had apple sauce with the turkey, which imo is weird as it should go with pork!

It's more Generational than Regional. Padding the meat out. It was common at my granny's Sunday roasts back in the 70s. Mum never made it.

Bread sauce is the next Yorkshire Pudding.

I'm Scottish, live in Central Scotland and I just have had it with mine. However! Fully agree with you and just said tonight to DH as we were scoffing that I dont know any Scots who have it.
My love of it is down to my English grandparents (midlands & London).

Tried Tesco bread sauce today but it was overpowingly spicy. Anyone else tried it?

I only heard of it after DH and I had our first Christmas together where I was cooking dinner. He asked me whether I was making it, I had no idea what it was. I still don't really. I told him no and if he wanted it he could ask his Mum!

Love it, we also occasionally have it with a standard roast to make it feel super special…

Scottish but lived in the midlands till I was 20.

I love bread sauce, it’s an essential for Christmas but I honestly don’t remember when I first had it. I have vague memories of the packet stuff at Christmas as a kid but I was fussy and wouldn’t have tried it. At some point I’ve tried it and fell in love and now you cannot have Christmas dinner with out it. Tesco finest one was spot on this year

I usually make mine with a large onion pricked with cloves in it. Delicious but was vetoed this year so no bread sauce 🥺

Not sure how to vote, as I have heard of it but I've never tasted it, or come across it being served anywhere.

I'm from the Midlands, like you OP.

Oh no- we are terribly grand and we all love it

It’s an essential part of a chicken / turkey roast but not beef. There would be complaints if not included. Personally find it delicious. Nice to have another sauce to bring the roast together that’s not gravy or stuffing

We are quite posh though my working class northern grandparents definitely had it and DH working class London grandparents did not have it so don’t think it’s a class thing,

Properly made bread sauce is the food of the gods.