By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 28 May 2020 00:08:21 +0000

So glad you enjoyed the blog and thank you for the international insight. The English also call ketchup ‘tomato sauce.’ [Not to be confused with ‘brown sauce.’]

By: Toni Blackmore

Toni Blackmore — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:02:36 +0000

Aloha from Seattle. Relieved Dr Wiley rescued us from those frankly revolting sounding precursors to ketchup as we know it:) In Australia we call it tomato sauce, ketchup is considered an American variation. Moving to the States a few years ago was a bit of a tomato odyssey. Momentary confusion at a screen of Italian cooking sauce instead of ketchup became commonplace in the first year of online shopping. Remembering to double check it was in fact passata going into the cart, and not Italian cooking sauce took longer:). Paste, mercifully, is the same on both continents. Eventually concluded Australia and America, though utterly beloved by me, are, ahem, equally matched at growing tomatoes and switched back to my Australian practice of buying only Italian tomatoes, (preferably San Marzano, but not fussed about DOP certification). Until, that is, a NYT (I think) article exposing the impossibility of all tomatoes sold as San Marzano being grown in the region. Well I knew that already but was shocked to discover my favourite brand is American! My fridge now holds Italian tomato paste, and three tomato condiments: American ketchup in regular and organic/low sugar iterations, and Australian tomato sauce because we Aussies may be rubbish at growing tomatoes, but it’s not a proper Aussie burger without a slathering of Aussie tomato sauce:)
Also wondering at the spelling Heintz/Heinz, cursory look on Google produces only the latter.
Thanks for another intriguing and uber interesting piece.

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