Ketchup or brown sauce?

Posted by: Chillkram on 05 August 2006

On your bacon sandwich?

For me it's brown sauce every time and mustard on a burger or hot dog (not english 'cos it burns!!!).

What is your favourite condiment?

Mark
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by u5227470736789439
Vinegar on chips!

Otherwise I would rather have a dill pickled gherkin on the plate!

ATB from Fredrik
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by Chillkram
Agreed dear Fredrik

Or tartare sauce with a nice piece of fish to go with the vinegar on the chips.

Mark
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by u5227470736789439
Yes I like tartar sauce on battered fish! And a gherkin! In fact I am addicted to gherkins!

I forgot to get some today. Grrrrh!

ATB from Fredrik
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by Chillkram
Dear Fredrik

And I must have the mushy peas to round it all off.

Regards

Mark
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by JWM
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Dear Fredrik

And I must have the mushy peas to round it all off.

Regards

Mark



I remember, as if it was yesterday, the advertising hoarding on the way into town from the Barnsley Road, when I lived in Doncaster in the early '90s:

"Mushy Peas - Yorkshire caviar."

Have to say I never got the taste for it myself. (A diplomatic statement if ever there was one. Let the reader understand...)

James
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by u5227470736789439
Mushy peas are lovely with gherkins! Crikey, I think I am addicted to the bloody things. If I am not careful I can scoff a whole big jaw like most people (who would not admit it of course) can scoff a packet of biscuits!

Fredrik!

PS: I am just waiting for someone to tell my I am adicted to something else!
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by JWM:
quote:
Originally posted by Chillkram:
Dear Fredrik

And I must have the mushy peas to round it all off.

Regards

Mark



I remember, as if it was yesterday, the advertising hoarding on the way into town from the Barnsley Road, when I lived in Doncaster in the early '90s:

"Mushy Peas - Yorkshire caviar."

Have to say I never got the taste for it myself. (A diplomatic statement if ever there was one. Let the reader understand...)

James


I understand perfectly James.......well not really, I love 'em, especially with the afore-mentioned fish,chips, salt, vinegar, tartare sauce and gherkin, still there's no accounting for (my) taste!

Mark
Posted on: 05 August 2006 by Squonk


The superb Aussie Barbecue Sauce from Masterfoods.
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by Roy T
I use brown sauce for big splashes of taste but Tabasco, Nam Pla, Oyster, Soy or Plum when a smaller more delicate splashes of taste is required. A case of sauces for courses.
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by arf005
Bacon sandwich?
I'm with you Mark - Brown Sauce every time!
Got to be HP, failing that Daddies or Fruity.....

How's about this one - worcester sauce with your bovril - cubes, not from the jar…
Goes down a treat out here at tea break, especially with a toasted 1/2 roll and melted cheese (with brown sauce on it of course) oh, and that's about as luxurious as the food gets out here I'm afraid.......it’s a bit like school dinners, although it's free.......

Cheers,
Ali
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by Malky
Whenever in Edinburgh it has to be 'salt 'n sauce'.
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by Diccus62
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"Mushy Peas - Yorkshire caviar."

James


There was a story that went round Hartlepool when Peter mandelson was first elected there. Apparently he went into the local Chippy and asked for fish & chips, looked down at the Canteen of Gooey green stuff and said "i'll have some Guacamole with that"

Highly unlikely to be true but amusing and pandered to a view of mandelson that hasn't really gone away.

Diccus Smile
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by arf005
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Originally posted by Malky:
Whenever in Edinburgh it has to be 'salt 'n sauce'.


Yeah, what is it with that - any chippie north of Dundee/Tayside knows nothing about it!!

Ask for salt and sauce in Aberdeen and they look at you funny!

For the uneducated - chip shop brown sauce is cheap brown sauce watered down with vinegar....

Cheers,
Ali
Posted on: 06 August 2006 by Mick P
Diccus

Neil Kinnock later confessed that he invented the story.

Evidently Mandelson gets extremely irritated by it.

Regards

Mick
Posted on: 07 August 2006 by Big Brother
YYYEEAACCHHH !! Mushed up peas...brown sauce on fish!!.. Vinegar on french fries!! No wonder your guy's cuisine doesn't export...Anyone for a Pizza???!!
Posted on: 07 August 2006 by Alan Paterson
vinegar on everything please.
Posted on: 07 August 2006 by JWM
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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Neil Kinnock later confessed that he invented the story.


Quite possibly his finest hour.
Posted on: 07 August 2006 by PJT
quote:
Originally posted by Alan Paterson:
vinegar on everything please.

Nah, extra hot chilli sauce on everything Winker
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by Steve Toy
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YYYEEAACCHHH !! Mushed up peas...brown sauce on fish!!.. Vinegar on french fries!! No wonder your guy's cuisine doesn't export...Anyone for a Pizza???!!


I've lived in France for two years in total. I love French food and consider it to be the best where food is concerned in the world. They certainly have the greatest range of dishes and flavours. However, they can be incredibly blinkered to possibilities existing outside of their own vast culinary repertoire.

I wouldn't put vinegar on those stringy fries made from reconstituted potatoes you find in your average Yanky hamburger chain, but hand-cut chunky chipped potatoes are not complete without salt and vinegar. Ketchup is basically vinegar, salt and sugar and yet it is considered acceptable to smother on chips whereas vinegar on its own is not.

Roast lamb is not complete without mint sauce. The French tend to turn their noses up at such a juxtaposition of flavours. Until/unless they actually try it...

Italians make very good pizza.
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by erik scothron
My father never allowed ketchup or brown sauce in the house. I never saw the stuff until I was in my early 20s. The thought of ruining a bacon sandwich with either is sacrilege surely? The only thing to have with a bacon sandwich is fried egg! I do like onion vinegar on chips however. I would not be seen dead in McDonalds. I love roast lamb but would never put that green stuff on it. Gravy yes, mint sauce no. Tartare sauce on fish is ok as is orange sauce on duck. Mushy peas is the pits. It is hard to think of anything quite so disgusting. When I lived in Cumbria I would see people buy chips covered in mushy peas and gravy. Truly revolting. Many of the local children live on the stuff.
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by Rasher
I don't eat bacon, but if I did I would consider it a shame to put any sauce over it, or even mustard for that matter.
I remember when I used to go to beer festivals with my buddies, by day 3 the mushy peas in the huge vat would be just about perfect. We'd get a plate of the stuff, make a crater in the top and pour in the mint sauce to dip the chips in. Fantastic.
The marriage of the large plate of 3 day old mushy peas & chips with the 2 pints of Owd Rog, pint of Old Peculiar, maybe half a Summer Lightning, a pint of Old Hookey and some various other ales that have never otherwise made it to my part of the world before, made for an interesting and highly amusing fermenting ground that would keep us entertained for the duration of the evening. I think it was around those days when we would have drug induced convesations on the colour of smells (if you could see them) and never did agree whether those particular ones would be green or brown.
When I was in Berlin I was introduced to chips with mayo from the street stands after a night on the beer. I still have mayo on chips now as a result of that.
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by erik scothron
LOL - I bet you could see the smells. Sounds delightful.
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by Big Brother
Actually to be fair to our British comrades there was one English 'restaurant' I remember with fondness from my youth, Arthur Treachers, best fried fish I ever tasted and beats the pants off anything since. Last time I saw them here in US was late 70's so I don't know if they're still around..
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by Chillkram
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The thought of ruining a bacon sandwich with either is sacrilege surely?


Definitely not, Erik. A bacon sandwich without brown sauce?!!! Surely the government should legislate against that!

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When I lived in Cumbria I would see people buy chips covered in mushy peas and gravy. Truly revolting. Many of the local children live on the stuff.


Agreed it isn't good as a staple diet, but as an occasional 'treat' - lovely, especially with a steak pudding perched on top!

Oh dear! Betrayed by my working class roots again! Razz

Mark
Posted on: 08 August 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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[QUOTE]Definitely not, Erik. A bacon sandwich without brown sauce?!!! Surely the government should legislate against that!


Give em time Mark, give em time.