[hug]

Are you Australian?

For the confused people in the audience: There is a product, in Australia, much like ketchup, marketed as “tomato sauce”. Yes, people make pasta sauce with it. Yes, pasta sauce made from scratch is better. It’s not so dissimilar from ketchup, just a little less vinegary.

[richrichardsson]

British rarely refer to ketchup as ketchup, we almost exclusively refer to it as "tomato sauce".

[pm215]

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.

[jfk13]

Also southern English, and this matches my understanding of the terminology. But yes, I believe usage does vary regionally.

[_sid]

I'm British and I've only ever experienced people calling it ketchup

[robotresearcher]

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.

[richrichardsson]

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".

[abrugsch]

or even worse, "Red Sauce"

[richrichardsson]

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?

[EdwardDiego]

> Yes, people make pasta sauce with it.

With tomato sauce? Really?

[stephenr]

Yeah I don't think I've ever heard of that in Australia.

I know about ketchup and 'tomato sauce' as being essentially the same condiment, used on a hot dog or what have you.

I've never heard of someone using actual ketchup/tomato sauce condiment as a pasta sauce. Literal spaghetti and sauce (that we all ate as kids, don't deny it) from a can would taste better.

Apparently it's a thing here in Thailand, but given how most Thai places in western countries treat Thai food, Im not sure I have much place to tell them they're doing it wrong.