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Original poster

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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Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 21:33

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sauce on (mac and cheese, fried egg sarnie, Linda McC sausage sarnie)… what do we reckon about my bottle that went out of date May 2020?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.

I think 2020 was a very good brown sauce year … and doesn’t it improve with age?

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BlackbirdsSinging · 22/08/2022 21:34

Never

GoingOnce · 22/08/2022 21:36

I call it HP sauce and only keep a small bottle in the cupboard as an accompaniment to cottage pie. That and a jar of pickled beetroot!

Thesearmsofmine · 22/08/2022 21:38

My dc love brown sauce!! (Aged between 6 and 11) They have it in breakfast sandwiches or on cottage pie which DH does too.

SirChenjins · 22/08/2022 21:41

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

Ahh, but that’s chippy sauce, a completely different beast. The west coasters are quite new to its delights, relatively speaking - it’s one of the best things about living in the east.
Square sausage, a buttered soft fresh morning roll and a big squirt of HP - best thing ever.

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Juicesausagecake · 22/08/2022 21:45

… but it is not an expanding market, is it? It will die with us.

I am not sure that @Thesearmsofmine ‘s children can sustain the existence of brown sauce on their own.

Liz Truss needs to go to China and open new brown sauce markets. And while she’s at it, who’s looking out for salad cream?

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BarbaraofSeville · 22/08/2022 21:58

Well there was a fish and chip restaurant fairly near me on the 'London, York, Edinburgh' coach tour route that was so popular with Chinese tourists that they opened a branch in China.

There's your starting point for preventing the extinction of brown sauce.

Although I'm now slightly miffed that brown sauce consumption is appararently seen as an 'old person' marker. We do have 2 types of Sciracha in the sauce drawer too.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 22/08/2022 22:01

Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all

This thread has reminded me of this previous thread on Singletrack, which is a bit like MN for bike nerds.

FiveDollarMilkshake · 22/08/2022 22:05

It will prevail. It already went full artisanal in about 2010. It’s not going anywhere unlike the sickly flavoured mayos and sugary bbq sauces and some dubious hot sauces. Have no fear.

Snugglemonkey · 22/08/2022 22:07

ReeseWitherfork · 22/08/2022 14:02

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!

My DP eats it on Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, stews etc and with haggis.

mrsbyers · 22/08/2022 22:08

It’s hot to be stokes brown sauce for me

mrsbyers · 22/08/2022 22:09

*got

SleepingStandingUp · 23/08/2022 01:15

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?

Chips.
Tinned tomatoes (so as a side to a main)
Beans (as above or on toast).
Sausage / Bacon sandwich / as part of a main meal

Phrenologistsfinger · 23/08/2022 01:22

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.

Not a trend! But this vegan loves a bit of brown sauce drizzled on her tofu scramble…

Phrenologistsfinger · 23/08/2022 01:23

But as ppl said, it definitely tastes more acidic than I remember. Why have they done that? Did they reduce sugar for ‘health reasons’ then up the vinegar to mask it?

dizzydizzydizzy · 23/08/2022 01:27

I hope not! It's much better than ketchup.

katesbushh · 23/08/2022 23:26

Oh I hope not
I love HP.

I don't eat meat but I have it on my fake bacon sandwich.
With eggs on toast
On a cheese sandwich
On my chips
And on beans on toast.

I also love Worcestershire sauce and sometimes have that as an alternative to HP on all of the above.

katesbushh · 23/08/2022 23:28

And my children like it too.

My dh thinks it is vile though.

Wetblanket78 · 23/08/2022 23:34

I can't stand brown sauce ketchup for me. Brown is usually there next to the ketchup. I do like Branston pickle though 6 which is basically brown sauce with chopped carrots in.

Deadringer · 23/08/2022 23:34

I love brown sauce, but it has to be YR, anyone else?

Sd352 · 24/08/2022 00:02

Brown sauce goes really well with fried Indian food (samosas, pakoras, bhajis). It’s basically a tomato, date and tamarind chutney!

Maybe it needs a poncier rebranding…

mrsfollowill · 24/08/2022 00:18

For me always brown (HP) with eggs but I prefer tomato ketchup with bacon and sausage. So when I have a full English breakfast I have both on my plate- brown drizzled over the egg and tomato next to the sausage and bacon. I'll get me coat

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