Is brown sauce basically on the way out?

[Juicesausagecake]

DH just ordered a sausage sandwich with brown sauce, and the waiter didn’t really know what it was.

It made me think: will brown sauce be extinct in a couple of generations?

… or is it like a sort of British balsamic vinegar, and will it go full artisanal?

Was it a waiter in the UK? Maybe they know it as HP sauce? I think Mayo has come in and quietly pushed brown sauce right off the edge of the table 🙁

No, it's not (but I will have to stockpile HP if it ever is!!).😆

Agree Whitney!

Only ever ate brown sauce on a sausage sarnie and went veggie a fair few years ago. Wonder how many people will be the same?! What else do people possibly use it for?

In fact, just double checked your OP and it was even a sausage sarnie there too. So I’ll assume that’s the only purpose for it!

Definitely not, but I'd always ask for HP. It's the pinnacle of brown sauce and its spicy gorgeousness is a million times better than sweet ketchup.

My dh loves brown sauce ! On chops or sausages or burgers. It can't be on the way out surely 😉

I was at a restaurant yesterday that served smoked ox tongue with house-made brown sauce, so the poncy revival may already be underway.

Sausage/bacon sandwich unthinkable without brown sauce.

Yes, on sausage sandwiches and
Lorne sausage on a roll
Sausage Rolls
Bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms etc
Steak pie
Scotch pehs pies
Mince and potatoes

All these wouldn't be the same without brown sauce. I don't buy HP as Aldi's is equally good imho.

But... you can use it on a veggie sausage sarnie! (Admittedly that is the only thing I use it for!)

Try it on macaroni (or cauliflower) cheese

I couldn’t get Daddies Sauce in our shop this week! I had a quiet panic.

… I bet it never goes off! (what colour would it go if it did?!).

I have it on scrambled eggs

Felicity Cloake wrote a book called ‘Red Sauce Brown Sauce’ and then said that she prefers mustard.

www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Sauce-Brown-British-Breakfast/dp/0008413657

The profit margins must be enormous. It’s just apples, isn’t it?

Chips are naked without a healthy dose of HP along with the salt & vinegar.

Don't blame the mayo, I thing it's bbq sauce that's snatched Brown sauce's limelight!

But bbq sauce is gross and brown sauce is wonderful!

Particularly good in a toastie with cheese and corned beef. Come to think about it corned beef is another endangered species.

Sales ARE massively down. And the youth aren't taking to brown sauce much at all. Hot sauce has sort of filled that gap.

On Saturday I sold 32 bacon sandwiches and 64 sausage sandwiches at our local cricket club, ketchup was far more popular.

I was out for lunch today and when my friend asked for HP sauce the waiter looked briefly confused then asked whether she meant brown sauce 😀maybe it is regional

Not in my house, it’s not. A sausage cob without HP is not a sausage cob. And a cottage pie without a good dash of HP in the filling is a bland pie.

A win for the sausage sarnie though. FAR superior to bacon sarnies.

@soundsystem What sausages are you using? I’m yet to find any that replace them suitably in a breakfast sandwich. There’s some decent ones for BBQs but they’re all quite specifically flavoured. I don’t like fake meat but if a company managed to recreate a nice lincolnshire or Cumberland then I’d buy shares.