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Michael Horowitz
 
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Default Tomato Sauce- do you mean the Aussie kind or the American kind?

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>> I ask because as an Australian who speaks reasonably fluent American
>> English :-) I know that the same term does not mean the same thing in
>> each country. Australian "tomato sauce" is what the Americans call
>> "ketchup"; whereas what the Americans call "tomato sauce" would be
>> called "pasta sauce" by Australians. Who was it who first said, "Two
>> countries divided by a single language"? :-)

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I'm sure glad someone started this thread.
Upfront admission: I usually get wrapped around the axle until
everyone around me says "geeze, you're thinking too much about this"
but ...
If I go to the supermarket and look for "tomato sauce" I get a can of
thick tomato something, which (in my limited experience) seems to form
a base for further work.
Now Alton Brown (TV cook) makes what he calls a tomato sauce which is
outstanding: major steps were the use of aromatics and the saving and
thickening of the tomato liquid. This sauce can be added as is (well,
with a quick whirl in the blender or not) over pasta, over meatballs,
over chicken.
It would have made more sense to me for him to have called this
something like a "General Purpose tomato-based topping" as opposed to
"tomato sauce".
Anyone else scratching their heads over "tomato sauce"? - Mike