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”.
Dead horse – rhyming slang for tomato sauce.
In countries such as the United Kingdom, India, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the term tomato sauce is used to describe a condiment similar to what Americans call tomato ketchup. In some of these countries, both terms are used for the condiment.
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.
Heinz® Big Red® Tomato Sauce is a trusted Aussie favourite for a reason. It's the ideal condiment for fried food, pies, sausages, hot chips and steak sandwiches.
Ketchup is the dominant term in American English and Canadian English, although catsup is commonly used in some southern US states and Mexico. In Canada and the US, tomato sauce is not a synonym for ketchup but is a sauce made from tomatoes and commonly used in making sauce for pasta.
You can actually call the substance by either name, as there's no difference between ketchup and catsup. They're just two different terms for the same thing. Ketchup has been around a long time. The name probably comes from ke-chiap (sometimes written ke-tsiap), which was a pickled fish sauce popular in China.
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.
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.
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.
A framework, as a grill or a spit, or a fireplace for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire. The crown jewel of any Kiwi backyard in the summertime, the barbie is the Cooker of Food and the Epicentre of Banter.
New Zealand and Australia share many words. Dunny, a colloquial word for a toilet, is one of them.
Chips – French fries. Potato chips are referred to as “crisps”, Kiwis will also call a snack like Doritos a “corn chip”.
Avo: this is what we call an avocado. This is a good one to know, because smashed avo (mashed avocado on toast) is very popular in Australian cafes.
Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
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A nointer is a slang term for a spoiled or difficult child, one who is particularly brattish.
Today, “kecap” is still used in Indonesia to refer to various sauces, particularly soy sauce. In America, however, ketchup now generally refers to just one: that bright red gloop that is lavished on French fries and other fast food.
Although practically sacrilegious in Italy, ketchup is often squirted on pizza in places as far flung as Trinidad, Lebanon and Poland. Similarly, ketchup is even used as a substitute for tomato sauce in pasta dishes in countries such as in Japan, which created a catsup-based dish called spaghetti Napolitan.
Canada leads the world in ketchup or catsup consumption at 3.1 Kg per person per year.
A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
Stuff yourself with a vegemite toastie, bum-nuts (eggs) from locally raised chooks (chickens), Tim Tam's choccy biccies (chocolate biscuits) or a whole spag bol (spaghetti Bolognese).
Who wins in a fight between the two greatest condiments known to humankind? Aussies love their tomato sauce. There isn't a pie in the country that doesn't benefit from a slick of sweet, red sauce.
McDonald's ketchup consists of tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, salt, and natural flavors. Heinz doesn't have the water, like McDonald's does, and Heinz contains onion powder and "spice," while McDonald's does not.
Ketchup has a surprisingly long evolution that originated in China. The first version was based on pickled fish and looked more like a soy sauce – with a dark and thin texture. It was called “keh-jup” or “koe-cheup,” meaning “fish sauce.”
Thick & Rich ketchup made from red ripe tomatoes
Our classic ketchup is made only from sweet, juicy, red ripe tomatoes for the signature thick and rich taste of America's Favorite Ketchup®.