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  • Sauce: It's time we had rules
  • DrRSwank
    Free Member

    Following from the OCD thread where people clearly did not understand the rules of sauce I thought I’d better write them down. I’ve broken it into two areas – foods that need sauce, and uses of common sauces:-

    Food needing sauce
    Bacon Sandwich – Red sauce only

    Fish Finger Sandwich – Brown sauce only

    Chip Butty – Red or Brown sauce are acceptable

    Cheese Sandwich – Branston or spicy mango

    Ham Sandwich – English mustard, Dijon mustard or Grain mustard

    Chicken Sandwich – Spicy tomato or Mango

    Beef Sandwich – English mustard OR Horseradish

    Smoked Salmon Sandwich – Horse radish

    Common Sauces
    Red sauce – to be used with most fried food except fish

    Brown sauce – to be used with baked potatoes, chips, fish fingers, sausages (but not in a sarnie)

    Branston – for cheese sandwiches or in a sandwich on it’s own

    Mango (spicy or otherwise) – cold chicken sandwich or in a sandwich on it’s own

    Mayo – there is no place for mayo in any kitchen although it is useful for making garlic mayo to have with tapas. It should never be put into sandwiches

    Salad cream (northerners Mayo) – more acceptable than mayo. Salad cream and lettuce sandwiches are good

    Mustards – use with processed meats (sausages, pies etc) or roast beef

    Vinegar – chips only – it has NO other uses

    Things that must NEVER be done
    Mixing red and brown sauce – it’s just wrong and shows you are incapable of decision

    In fact mixing sauces of any kind is not to be recommended.

    Things that may be experimented with
    Sauces make good sandwich fillers in their own right.

    I hope this explains things. I do appreciate that they say taste is personal, but it isn’t if it’s wrong – and deviation from the above is wrong.

    chvck
    Free Member

    Does HP Fruity come under brown sauce?

    M6TTF
    Free Member

    Bacon Sandwich – Red sauce only

    FAIL

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    agree – bacon sarnie = brown sauce.

    I’m out.

    Gee-Jay
    Free Member

    no no no, bacon butties need mayo & brown sauce

    am liking heinz chillie ketchup on stuff generally

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    HP Fruity is an offspring of Brown.

    BACON SANDWICH = RED SAUCE ONLY!!!!!

    chvck
    Free Member

    Also, red sauce is generally just wrong anyway.

    sssimon
    Free Member

    Things that must NEVER be done
    Mixing red and brown sauce – it’s just wrong and shows you are incapable of decision

    In fact mixing sauces of any kind is not to be recommended.

    wrong again, how can you control the mixing of sauce on a hotday, got to have red and mustard

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    MAYO! On a bacon sandwich!

    That is grim!

    whippersnapper
    Free Member

    Mayo. It should never be put into sandwiches

    What??? Why?

    And you’re wrong.

    Houns
    Full Member

    Brown sauce on Fishfinger sandwiches?! Dear God man

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    Bacon Sandwich – Red & Brown sauce at the same time.

    Unless – it’s really decent smoked bacon then just butter.

    trailmonkey
    Full Member

    Red sauce – to be used with most fried food except fish

    Brown sauce instead of red on fish and chips ??????????

    You are clearly in no position to be determining any kind of gourmet bar setting.

    Away with you to KFC

    FoxyChick
    Free Member

    BACON SANDWICH = BROWN SAUCE (AND ONLY HP)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😈

    chvck
    Free Member

    I have my own rule when it comes to sauces..Spicy sauce unless hungover in which case switch to the hp fruity.

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    Whippersnapper – Mayo should not be put into sarnies. You may, if you’re posh, dip your chips in it. You may use it in a salad.

    Other than that it’s the milk of satan (and I’m not talking breast!)

    duckman
    Full Member

    viva le fishfinger/red sauce resistance!

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    Trailmonkey – Fish and chips has vinegar only. If you need to dip your chips then that’s what mushy peas are for!

    FoxyChick
    Free Member

    AND… tomato sauce on the side for a cheese toastie, for dipping.

    oopnorth
    Free Member

    Fish – RED!

    Bacon / sausage – BROWN!

    Do not deviate from the above 😆

    whippersnapper
    Free Member

    Other than that it’s the milk of satan (and I’m not talking breast!)

    would that make a difference? 😉

    Hellman’s full fat mayo is my staple diet.

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    Brown Sauce on Fish & chips and bacon sarnies?!! Wrong wrong wrong!

    It would be like putting Sarah Palin in a Mensa meeting.

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    FC – dipping red sauce for cheese on toast is fine.

    Fish Fingers should ONLY ever be eaten with brown. The OH was trying to suggest different last night – apparently red and brown are what she prefers.

    It’s wrong!

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    Have to say, I’m with the bacon sandwich/brown sauce backlash. As for dipping your chips in mushy peas, don’t you find they make a mess of the curry sauce that you should be using? Besides, if the chicp are next to kabab meat, then it’s garlic mayo all the way.

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    Look – the Fish n chips argument is coming up too much.

    Fish n Chips should be covered in Malt Vinegar and salt. Mushy peas (which should also be vinegared) provide moisture.

    The ONLY other accompaniements are a cup of tea and buttered white bread.

    Here endeth the Fish n Chip discussion.

    FoxyChick
    Free Member

    Oh, dear lord…now I’m going to have to have one of MrFC’s cheese toastie specials…and he’s already made me one of his special omelettes for breakie.

    I shall blame DrWank!!

    8)

    IanB
    Free Member

    Fish fingers are best with tartar sauce, or if non to hand, mayo.

    Don’t see Worcester Sauce on your list either, for use with anything 😉

    carbon337
    Free Member

    add red sauce to cheese sarnies – and not toasted ones either.

    Get that brown away from fish fingers dude – step away with the brown sauce.

    Houns
    Full Member

    Hmm i’m forming a breakaway sauce group where it’s red on bacon, brown on sausage, red on fishfingers, red on fish and chips and……Red and French’s mustard mixed on burgers!

    Who’s with me?!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    You missed a brown sauce usage – baked beans / canned spaghetti.

    there is no place for mayo in any kitchen

    Amen, brother. It crops up a lot on veggieburgers for some unfathonable reason, I think someone somewhere thought “there’s no meat in this so it must be a salad.”

    Speaking of which, how long have Burger King been putting the devil’s semen on their damn beanburgers? I got caught out by that the other day, I was expecting a nice spicy tomato sauce and it turned up slathered in pungent white gloop. Unimpressed.

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    TARTAR – it’s kitten sick.

    Worcester is for cooking with – it is not a table sauce.

    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    Cougar – GOOD CALL. I’d forgotten – Brown sauce on baked beans is fabulous.

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    sarnie:
    bacon – red
    sossidge – red
    fried egg – red
    chip – red
    ed. (FISH FINGERS – RED. BLEEDIN’ RED, OKAY ?!!)
    cold meats, cheese – neither sauce; chutney/pickle/relish/mustard as you see fit

    brown sauce – cheering up insipid shepherds’ pie (etc) ONLY

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    Brown is Satan’s poo. In my opinion.

    Houns
    Full Member

    Worcestershire sauce on baked beans, on cheese on toast, on anything with minced beef = Table Sauce

    FoxyChick
    Free Member

    The thing is with chips…it depends which kind.
    Good chippy chips…just salt and vinegar, in white bread and butter.

    But oven chips? Has to be salt, vinegar, HP sauce, tomato sauce, and proper mayonnaise. I likes me variety for dippin’ me oven chips! 😳

    carbon337
    Free Member

    Maggi on chip shop sausage and chips.

    Worcester sauce on cheese on toast melted.

    trailmonkey
    Full Member

    I’m in Houns.

    The OP is clearly a buffoon of the first water.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Red sauce if the food involves processed cheese, e.g.

    – over chips and cheese with curry sauce. Yum.
    – with any pizza.
    – on top of a macaroni cheese.

    Why yes, I am from Glasgow, how did you know?

    Gee-Jay
    Free Member

    +1 for brown sauce and beans.

    Am a tad worried about Mr FC’s

    special omelettes

    at breakfast time

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