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Keeping it classy for my 1000th post (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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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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