In Britain, the word ketchup is used, but it's also often called tomato sauce, which sounds confusing if you're a fan of Italian food; in North America tomato sauce goes on pasta and pizza, not French fries.
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
Known and loved across Europe and the US, there is no doubt a bottle in almost every refrigerator (or cupboard, depending on where you stand on the controversial ketchup storage debate) in the Western world. In fact in the UK, the average person consumes 2.4kg of the red sauce each year.
Ketchup is the dominant spelling in both American and British English by a large margin. It's interesting to note, however, that this wasn't always the case in America (more on that below).
Mayonnaise (UK: /ˌmeɪəˈneɪz/; US: /ˈmeɪəneɪz, ˈmæneɪz/), colloquially referred to as "mayo" (/ˈmeɪoʊ/), is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries.
HP Sauce is a British brown sauce, the main ingredients of which are tomatoes and tamarind extract. It was named after London's Houses of Parliament.
In the Australian market there are two key differences between tomato ketchup and tomato sauce – the flavour and the thickness. In other countries the same product may be called something else but for Australia, ketchup is sweeter and thicker than traditional Australian tomato sauce which is more sour and more runny.
Hyde pointed out that in Ireland, the ketchup is known as a "relish" and often just referred to "Ballymaloe" (as in, "Pass me the Ballymaloe").
It's America's favorite condiment, but ketchup's long history dates back to imperial China—and at one point it was completely tomato-free. Ketchup is found in 97 percent of U.S. homes and probably 100 percent of barbecues.
The H. J. Heinz Company was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869.
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Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree.
See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC). “Let's pop into Maccas after the footy.”
Durry is the common Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called “ciggies” or “darts”. Both ways, stay away from smoking!
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The Heinz tomato ketchup that is sold in New Zealand, for example, contains concentrated tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, salt, natural flavours and spice. The only real differences are the use of tomato concentrate and the substitution of apples for some of the tomatoes.
Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise.
Dead horse – rhyming slang for tomato sauce.
Aussies love their tomato sauce. There isn't a pie in the country that doesn't benefit from a slick of sweet, red sauce.
Until now, for many decades, ketchup has been Britain's favourite condiment. The sauce is consumed so readily, presumably, because it triggers all five of the fundamental tastes of our palette – sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. It adds body to food.
In Britain and the United States, the sauce served with roast duck has sometimes been called “orange gravy” or “orange sauce.” As far as we can tell, however, it is not commonly referred to as “duck sauce.”
All of the 'experts' seem to agree: the signature English sauce is made from melted butter: “Melted butter, we are indeed told, plays in English cookery nearly the same part as the Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, calomel in the practice of medicine, and silver forks in fashionable novels.
In British and Irish cuisine, as well as in the cuisines of Commonwealth countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the word gravy refers only to the meat-based sauce derived from meat juices, stock cubes or gravy granules. Use of the word "gravy" does not include other thickened sauces.