"Rhonda Anderson" > wrote in message
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> "Charles Gifford" > wrote in
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> > 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.

I think that this must be the case. US-style tomato sauce is certainly
unnecessary. Just a convenience that one gets used to.

> 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.

Never seen them here. It was very surprising to me! Not something I would
ever have thought of! It does seem useful. I wonder why it isn't done here.

> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Thanks for the info Rhonda
Charlie