Nancy Young > wrote in
:

> 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,

Confusion arising from differing terminology I think.

In Australia, if we talk about "tomato sauce" we're talking about a
vinegar based tomato sauce in a bottle, similar to ketchup and used as a
condiment.

In the US, AFAICS, if you talk about "tomato sauce" you're talking about
a sauce made from tomatoes and herbs to be used perhaps with pasta. And,
from your comment in another post, usually packaged in a can? A product
like this would probably be called a tomato puree here, or a pasta
sauce.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia