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Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by richrichardsson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:44AM (#20865271)
British rarely refer to ketchup as ketchup, we almost exclusively refer to it as "tomato sauce".
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by pm215 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:01AM (#20865346)
I'm British, and I refer to ketchup as ketchup. This may be regional; I'm southern-English. I'd probably by default assume that if you said 'tomato sauce' you meant a generic tomato-based sauce, not the specific condiment Heinz &c make.
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by jfk13 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:24AM (#20865456)
Also southern English, and this matches my understanding of the terminology. But yes, I believe usage does vary regionally.
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by _sid on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:21AM (#20865433)
I'm British and I've only ever experienced people calling it ketchup
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by robotresearcher on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:30AM (#20866804)
I’m British, from the South East, and it was tomato sauce in my family when I was a kid, but now it is ketchup. There was a transition at some point fairly recently. English evolves easily.
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by richrichardsson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#20867416)
I think you've nailed it. I'm was Essex/Kent born and raised, with East End of London heritage. It was always "tomato sauce", was very rare to hear it referred to as "ketchup".
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by abrugsch on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:03AM (#20865359)
or even worse, "Red Sauce"
Re:The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup by richrichardsson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:21AM (#20867371)
Yeah, you hear that a lot in "greasy spoon" establishments, perhaps because there isn't enough tomato in the recipe to claim it as such?