"Charles Gifford" > wrote in
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> "Rhonda Anderson" > wrote in message
> .5...
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>> 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
>
> Hi Rhonda! Tomato sauce here is almost as you describe it. However it
> would be "used" to make a pasta sauce not used as a pasta sauce.
> Tomato purée here is just that: puréed tomatoes with no herbs or
> spices in it.

I think perhaps we just don't have something exactly equivalent to your
"tomato sauce" on the supermarket shelves. It's not something I've ever
bought, anyway. I'll have to have a close look at the canned tomato
products next time I shop.

Interesting and fun to compare these things. I was
> _astonished_ to see on the Heinz AU site the presence of canned
> flavored tuna! That is very different!
>

Do you not have canned flavoured tuna in the US? Or is it just that Heinz
don't make it? There are numerous brands of it available here. All in
small individual sized cans. I usually have several in the cupboard -
they make an easy lunch for work accompanied by bread, or crackers, or
added to a salad.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia