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:
“He was as bald as a hump.
His ears stuck out like teacups
and his tongue, my God, his tongue,
like a red worm and when he kissed
it crawled right in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There’s no sauce in the world like hunger.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)