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By: TedW

Back in the 1970s one of my mom's women's magazines had a recipe for BLTs that included peanut butter. I can assure you that it is indeed an excellent addition to a bacon sandwich.

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By: BlueHorse

Hactar, read that two minutes ago: still laughing. I just want to state for the record that if you put anything but HP Sauce on a bacon sandwich... Nope. Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and PEANUT BUTTER. Best...

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By: destrius

I'm overly addicted to using oyster sauce in my cooking. When I cook Chinese food I instinctively add it to everything, from vegetables to minced meat to soups to beef. It's main purpose is to be a bit...

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By: Hactar

If you go by color, there really are only 4 sauces: Brown, Red, Green, White. Red sauces involve either tomatoes or chiles, green involve green herbs or green chiles/tomatillos, white involve dairy and...

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By: Samizdata

Oh, and for those of us that are niftygrocery impaired, I acquired a mild appreciation of this stuff.

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By: Katemonkey

Oh, and, also, a butty isn't a sandwich. While it is meat-in-bread, it's usually a white roll (fairly large). See? The butty can also be called a cob, as it is in Nottingham.

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By: Samizdata

Packed Lunch: "English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty?" Not sure of etymology, but I had always heard of the bacon sarnie myself.

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By: Katemonkey

Let's just say there's a reason my profile says "...discover the mystery of The Powerful Brown Sauce" and has so for 10 goddamn years. Brown sauce is a miracle in bottle. (It's especially great on...

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By: drlith

Boyfriend squirted partner with brown sauce when she refused to stop reading Fifty Shades of Grey"He said he had every intention of squirting sauce over Miss McCormick, but he now regrets having done...

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By: onya

Chip spice is chicken salt.

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By: infinitywaltz

There was a thread about Scotland a few months ago that veered into brown sauce territory, and I will reiterate now what I first said there: A1 and HP Brown Sauce are vastly different things. Yes, they...

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By: cromagnon

Just going to throw these out there...

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By: arcticseal

I love currywurst, but everyone looks at me strangely when I mention it.

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By: mzanatta

A second for Stokes. I was also a big fan of Tiptree Brown Sauce.

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By: Celsius1414

And while it isn't exactly brown sauce related, I will sing the praises of Currywurst till my dying day.

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By: Celsius1414

English, why the hell would you call a sandwich a butty? And suddenly I was transported to visualize an Amish person complaining about sandwich nomenclature. But what would they be doing on MetaFilter?...

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By: drlith

I learned to make Swedish Meatballs back in the 1970s and the recipe involved worchestershire sauce, so it may be that that was a pre-soy sauce source of brown/umami additive. Of course, this was in...

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By: sgt.serenity

Well in Happy Dave, saltnsauce is one of the pillars of the enlightenment ! I still owe amberglow a bottle of genuine chippy sauce, on the off chance you're reading this - email me your addy and i will...

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By: arcticseal

Frankly, I'm not HP.

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By: Devils Rancher

I've found that there's nothing brown on my stovetop that can't be made just a little more borwn by the addition of Pickapeppa sauce. It's pretty much replaced Worcestershire in my pantheon of cooking...

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