Craig Welch wrote:
>
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:12:50 -0500, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
> >> >Okey doke, thanks. If you had said in a can I would have avered (is
> >> >that a word?) that it wasn't ketchup. I still wonder what tomato
> >> >sauce is called, there.
> >>
> >> Tomato sauce.
>
> >So, tomato sauce and ketchup are called the same thing?
>
> More or less. But the products sold as ketchup are *slightly*
> different to those sold as tomato sauce. Different amount of sugar,
> for example.
>
> >Do you have tomato sauce?
>
> Yes, it's sold as 'tomato sauce', a ketchup-like product.

Ketchup has vinegar. Tomato sauce has herbs. They would have to
work hard at being any different. Neither bad, but not even
remotely the same.

nancy