hahabogus wrote:
>
> It's a cultural thing. You use tomato sauce, they use ketchup/catsup.
> Same stuff differing countries.
>
> Now if you wanted to make a tomato based sauce for pasta what would
> be the name of the tomato substances you would use?

Well, I loathe shortcutting on pasta sauces ( I go the 'from scratch'
option), but if I were to buy a sauce for pasta, that is what they are
called - "pasta sauces".

It comes in a jar, and popular brands would be Dolmio, Paul Newman,
Raguletto, etc.
You would not put it on your french fries ( though you could ).
The idea is to either dump the jar on top of your hot boiled pasta, or to
add other things ( veges, minced meat ) and use it as a simmer base,

If I asked my husband to pop out and get me some tomato sauce, he'd assume
we'd be BBQ'ing and bring me back 'ketchup'. You would not put tomato sauce
on pasta unless you really had no clue, or were dirt poor and it beat
starving.


> If I was making cream of tomato soup, I would use tomato sauce and
> cream as my main ingredients. I wouldn't be using ketchup.

I would get a can of Heinz Big Red soup and add milk to it
Then again, this is comfort food for me, reminiscent of childhood, and a
dish not for sharing with guests


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