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Is brown sauce basically on the way out?

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Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 13:30

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?

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BarbaraofSeville · 22/08/2022 20:17

How could a waiter in a place that sells sausage sandwiches not know what brown sauce is Confused

Was it his first day?

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Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 20:21

TheSpottedZebra · 22/08/2022 18:53

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

This is exactly what I hoped Mumsnet would reveal. It is the youth who are the key. If the teens aren’t into it, it won’t survive.

Does anyone have teens who like it?

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Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 20:22

BarbaraofSeville · 22/08/2022 20:17

How could a waiter in a place that sells sausage sandwiches not know what brown sauce is Confused

Was it his first day?

I went off-menu ☺️.

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boatyardblues · 22/08/2022 20:22

AtleastitsnotMonday · 22/08/2022 15:50

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.

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With global affairs as they are, I reckon corned beef’s revival is imminent. You can eat it cold from the tin and corned beef hash is cheap and filling.

SaintHelena · 22/08/2022 20:24

I imagine it's the American influence - McDs etc don't do it.

Mintchervilpurslane · 22/08/2022 20:24

I think they changed the recipe a few years ago and made it more acidic and less thick. I think that has had an impact on sales too. It’s not half as nice as the original imho.

boatyardblues · 22/08/2022 20:25

I can’t contribute to the brown sauce convo but there are a lot of condiments which look destined for the endangered list. Does anyone know anyone under 30 who uses Worcestershire sauce?

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 22/08/2022 20:29

Not if Lord Baddingham DH is any measure... Mummy was horrified the other day when he put brown sauce on the falafel I'd made for supper!

Bluesky2507 · 22/08/2022 20:34

Absolutely not. You can't have a bacon or sausage sandwich without brown sauce. And with an ageing population there will be a lot more old people than young people! And once the veganism trend dies out the young people will revert back to bacon sandwiches.

BarbaraofSeville · 22/08/2022 20:34

Mintchervilpurslane · 22/08/2022 20:24

I think they changed the recipe a few years ago and made it more acidic and less thick. I think that has had an impact on sales too. It’s not half as nice as the original imho.

Or was that in a chip shop in Scotland?

I don't know what they call it but I think in (some) Scottish fish and chip shops, you are offered a condiment that is a mixture of brown sauce and vinegar.

I've never noticed a change and we always have brown sauce in and usually get it from Aldi as it is virtually identical to HP, but about a third of the price.

RedHelenB · 22/08/2022 20:37

Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 13:30

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?

Not where I live.

KohlaParasaurus · 22/08/2022 20:42

DH still puts brown sauce on bacon/sausage/egg sarnies and breakfast fry-ups, but my son prefers barbecue sauce and my daughters go for ketchup or flavoured mayonnaise. They can all go extinct as far as I'm concerned.

mum11970 · 22/08/2022 20:43

Not in our house. We have brown and fruity but we also have pretty much every other sauce going too.

SiobhanSharpe · 22/08/2022 20:45

ReeseWitherfork · 22/08/2022 14:01

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?

It's just as nice on a fried egg sarnie... (as long as you're not vegan, I suppose)

SiobhanSharpe · 22/08/2022 20:56

I also have it on Cornish pasties (so shoot me), macaroni cheese, chips/fish and chips and with a steak and fried egg supper -- it's very similar to A1 steak sauce.
It's obligatory in any good sausage sandwich.
My DB, as a child, used to make himself a sauce sandwich. Two slices of bread, one spread with HP, the other with ketchup, slapped together. He seemed to enjoy it.

soundsystem · 22/08/2022 21:17

@ReeseWitherfork we usually just have the Linda McCartney frozen ones. Which don't pretend to be meat but are really nice

soundsystem · 22/08/2022 21:20

@BarbaraofSeville It's imaginatively just called "sauce". So when you get chips instead of "salt and vinegar?" you're asked "salt and sauce?" Grin

PicketRingFenced · 22/08/2022 21:20

I tried it once 40 years ago and haven't touched it since. I love my Tommy K though

ReeseWitherfork · 22/08/2022 21:22

boatyardblues · 22/08/2022 20:25

I can’t contribute to the brown sauce convo but there are a lot of condiments which look destined for the endangered list. Does anyone know anyone under 30 who uses Worcestershire sauce?

I used some this week!! But I’m 33 so I don’t count. I’ll check in with my younger siblings.

cariadlet · 22/08/2022 21:22

I love brown sauce. I've got visceral memories of the cheap version we had for school dinners. Because of that - I buy supermarket own brand for everything else - brown sauce is the one thing where I'm happy to pay for the name. It has to be HP.

But I am well into middle age. Teen dd only has tomato ketchup.

PicketRingFenced · 22/08/2022 21:22

DH likes brown sauce / Daddies sauce whatever it's called. I don't add it to the shopping and he never asks for it

ReeseWitherfork · 22/08/2022 21:23

So now that I’ve got a list of things to put brown sauce on (mac and cheese, fried egg sarnie, Linda McC sausage sarnie)… what do we reckon about my bottle that went out of date May 2020? I checked earlier and it still looks OK.

Backhometothenorth · 22/08/2022 21:24

HP sauce essential on every sort of egg dish other than scrambled, tomatoes on toast, beans on toast, cheese toasties, macaroni or cauliflower cheese. I could go on.

Motnight · 22/08/2022 21:27

I have just put HP sauce on my steak pie. It was delicious!

Bananaman123 · 22/08/2022 21:31

Brown sauce from the chippy is a must in Scotland, also hp with any roll with bacon, sausage, egg etc. use it to dip French toast in, chips etc