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Keeping it classy for my 1000th post (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 60 points 5 months ago* (20 children)

Do people consider sour cream a sauce?

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  • [–] [S] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

    Yeah, some people even consider ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard sauces.

    Language wielded irresponsibly can be a mysterious and terrible thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    My son uses ketchup as if it were a sauce ...

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Obviously it’s a sauce. I looked up the definition to try and figure out why they would say it isn’t, and I still don’t see it.

    “a liquid or semisolid food mixture used especially as a topping or ingredient for adding to or enhancing the flavor of a dish”

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    There's a lot more nuance in the definition in a culinary context: https://www.mashed.com/1338901/difference-between-sauce-condiment-dip/

    But ignoring that context, yes, ketchup meets the literal definition of a sauce.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    What context needs to be ignored? Ketchup is a sauce, which when added to completed food becomes a condiment, just like all sauces. Plenty of dishes are cooked with ketchup in the cooking process. The conclusion from the article you posted:

    when it comes to the question of condiment or sauce, the answer is “both”.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It's a condiment, which is not a sauce.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Its a subsection of sauces. A type of sauce fulfilling a more specific purpose than other sauces.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    According to my extensive 30 seconds of research, the difference is that a sauce is an integral ingredient, but a condiment is added after the dish is served. In which case, ketchup can be either or both, even in the same dish.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I have one of those meal delivery kit subscriptions where they send you ingredients and recipes each week for you to make their meals. I am surprised at how many different sauces can be made with sour cream. Add a little bit of water, garlic, salt and pepper, - and you've got a delicious white sauce that goes on almost anything.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Well yeah, no question there, but by itself it kind of doesn't count?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Not sure what shitty kind of sour cream yall get over there, but what is known as smetana in Eastern Europe is widely employed as a condiment. You can use it with meat dumplings or meatballs, or potato dumplings, or plain boiled potato or salted fish, you use it in salads, in soups like borscht. You can dip crepes or pancakes into it, or various kinds of pirozhki.

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