"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> 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

Don't feel alone Nancy. I've been confused about this for years.

Charlie