# British Posters: Where can I get the Curry Sauce you put on Chips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 11, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175 "2025-02-11T16:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/1 "2025-02-11T16:47:51Z")
I went to Uni in Birmingham two decades ago and there became addicted to the traditional salt and vinegar chips everyone ate after a night out. Turns out, [that is not vinegar](https://youtu.be/642x2Y3Zla0?si=3i8zeubJNqxWI5K5). Apparently, Curry Sauce on chips is the new thing and essentially [all of The British Isles agree](https://images.app.goo.gl/zjsBxxb2W34pHReA6). I want to try this, but there are a fair number of Chip Shop Curry Sauces available on Amazon. What is closest so I can taste what you guys like only here in the US? ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/2 "2025-02-11T17:16:33Z")
There are quite a number of sauces for fish-&-chip chips here in the UK. Vinegar is the most common (OK, it’s often a ‘non brewed condiment’ but essentially acetic acid). In eastern Scotland, a brown sauce is common. A typical one seems to be HP sauce, or similar. Then for many years UK chip shops have offered ‘curry sauce’… it’s not a new thing at all. It’s more what you would call a chinese curry, not so much like an indian one. Tends to taste like an old-fashioned ‘curry powder’ that was sold before people started to investigate authentic indian cuisine. Probably contains a lot of 5-spice and star anise? Usually I’m not a big fan, but there was sometimes a perverse attraction late in the evening after playing a gig (and drinking too many pints)… I’d think that anything calling itself a chinese style curry might be close. Haven’t tried any of the Amazon offerings… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/3 "2025-02-11T19:31:51Z")
Well the most popular curry here in the UK is Chicken Tikka Masala. So you could try: [Morrisons Tikka Sauce 500g : Amazon.co.uk: Grocery](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morrisons-111532691-Tikka-Sauce-500G/dp/B091G2HDF2/ref=sr_1_5_f3_0o_morri?crid=19BAA1AURGW0X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hNdYhcNlu8_j2jEowrd7eKwPIyQkCy9Y5wOaOIXQ3lpZD-4lM9HjNpLxjTVbKVeHofkQELDzAGBXGGxSDSPr2bHV-4cwNTAZ6T2QzArcaCV43Cw6tXzTRUT6KD7o3cwt41AdL486HILWIwXCUFYm-c1Dmz__eSsi9sbTDCRMptTBEDGKcmWoQ2VZwxQ_A79pWtB_KcNHTJd_N2CnzMeBhGzjSQCkaNzbOQ_J7NHdRYRlYbwEnZKTHfZ6HXhj1lnQzJ1_P5d1VgeacfNFgF04zYJmysYI4ufyLCps_ofilZp0sOmBs7sruHUF7VAcbWQWziQ7NoE4VQJeIgMO_Mc3nAYU4DhlRzzF6KDmQF5FuxIfjXffGJAgAeuUJq1kO6vyJO28JYl0iN8FU4cnH754J72t4iysrGZx1289L6iLuJnEvwq1oTVUxoXOln8NJFK0.nwMEQDFwphbpVJ9_T92sjo_UNHb8Eo2wbeE0S_dnpro&dib_tag=se&keywords=curry+sauce&qid=1739302177&sprefix=curry+sauce%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-5) I should add that I’ve been putting Heinz Tomato Ketchup on my chips for over 60 years! ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/4 "2025-02-11T20:31:24Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Well the most popular curry here in the UK is Chicken Tikka Masala. Right, but that’s not a sauce you put on chips, it’s a cooking sauce. Not really the same thing. > [@glee](#): > > I should add that I’ve been putting Heinz Tomato Ketchup on my chips for over 60 years! My wife puts that on her chips too. I missed that in my list. Some people like it, I guess… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/5 "2025-02-11T20:57:36Z")
I have never heard of this, but I am greatly intrigued. I see a bunch of people online comparing chip shop curry sauce to Japanese katsu curry sauce, if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/6 "2025-02-11T21:05:05Z")
Never mind. Just noticed the OP is requesting opinions on which is most like what is available in a UK chippie. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175/7 "2025-02-11T22:49:50Z")
The Amazon website for curry sauces is at [Amazon.com : Curry Sauce](https://www.amazon.com/Curry-Sauce/b?ie=UTF8&node=16321141) . Unless you live in some area where there are few people who want to buy any vaguely foreign foods, you will find aisles with a selection of foreign foods in some supermarkets. The supermarket half a mile from me has such an aisle. Why not order a selection of such sauces from an online website offering such sauces? I think you can get a better idea what you’d like by tasting them yourself rather than relying on someone else’s taste.