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:

    “their red cloaks
    wrapped tight to the bone”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)