Red Sauce

The term red sauce has several meanings in English.

  • It is used as a slightly pejorative description of tomato-heavy Italian-American cuisine in the United States, and specifically to marinara sauce
  • It is also known in the United States for the spicy red-colored salsa that is served in Tex Mex restaurants
  • Along the Gulf Coast of the United States, it is used within the seafood culture as a nickname for cocktail sauce
  • In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it can be used to refer to tomato ketchup. Often, this refers to ketchup with a higher level of vinegar than normal.
  • In North America, it also refers to sweet and sour sauce, specifically the variety served in Chinese restaurants

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or sauce:

    “For which he wex a litel red for shame,
    Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen,
    That to beholde it was a noble game,
    How sobreliche he caste doun his yen.
    Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen,
    And let so softe it in her herte sinke
    That to herself she seyde, “Who yaf me drinke?””
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    “Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)