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British rarely refer to ketchup as ketchup, we almost exclusively refer to it as "tomato sauce".
by richrichardsson 7y ago
British rarely refer to ketchup as ketchup, we almost exclusively refer to it as "tomato sauce".
- pm215 7y agoI'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 7y agoAlso southern English, and this matches my understanding of the terminology. But yes, I believe usage does vary regionally.
- abrugsch 7y agoor even worse, "Red Sauce"
- richrichardsson 7y agoYeah, you hear that a lot in "greasy spoon" establishments, perhaps because there isn't enough tomato in the recipe to claim it as such?
- _sid 7y agoI'm British and I've only ever experienced people calling it ketchup
- robotresearcher 7y agoI’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 7y agoI 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".