# One sauce for the rest of your life: What would you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933 "2012-05-14T22:46:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/21 "2012-05-15T07:18:22Z")
When you say sauce, do you mean only as something to dip or place on top of food? I don’t think I would survive without mayo, but not that I really use it as a sauce (besides spreading it on hamburgers), but because of the stuff I eat it in. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/22 "2012-05-15T15:56:06Z")
Italian dressing ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/23 "2012-05-15T15:58:01Z")
Another vote for horseradish. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/24 "2012-05-15T18:23:12Z")
I’d have to say BBQ sauce but that might be cheating since there’s a billion different kinds but that’s what I love about it. Right now my current obsession is this: > **[FamousBbqStore.com is for sale | HugeDomains](https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=famousbbqstore.com)** > > The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today. pineapple hot sauce. It’s so sweet and spicy it’s perfect. They don’t sell it locally, that I could find, so I bought about 8 bottles a couple of months ago to stock up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/25 "2012-05-15T18:31:06Z")
I’m torn between ketchup and catsup. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/26 "2012-05-15T20:17:24Z")
Vodka. Oh, you mean actual sauce. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/27 "2012-05-15T20:26:16Z")
Another vote for Sweet Chili sauce. And breath mints afterwards, because that stuff is loaded with garlic! LONG after the sweetness and the heat is gone, the garlic lives forever! ~VOW (second place is mole–LOVE that stuff!) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/28 "2012-05-15T20:27:19Z")
BBQ, there are so many different kinds and so many utilities. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/29 "2012-05-15T20:32:31Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > BBQ, there are so many different kinds and so many utilities. _scoff_ Mole is what BBQ wants to be when it grows up. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/30 "2012-05-15T20:36:13Z")
Pesto, if its a sauce, otherwise Sriracha. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/31 "2012-05-15T21:34:19Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > _scoff_ > > Mole is what BBQ wants to be when it grows up. > ~VOW What kind of mole? There’s about a gazillion different kinds, and I assume we only get to pick one… (Same with BBQ sauce. I don’t think it’d be fair to pick it out as a general category, because under BBQ you have sauces based on tomatoes, mustard, cider vinegar, and even mayonnaise.) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/32 "2012-05-15T22:40:50Z")
> [@wheresmymind](#): > > Sriracha! I eat it with everything except cereal and ice cream. I tried it with both, and they are the only two foods I’ve found that don’t taste better with Sriracha. I, for one, salute your devotion to the scientific method. Thank you for reporting back with your results. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/33 "2012-05-15T23:23:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m torn between ketchup and catsup. I prefer tomato sauce, but for me it would be Tabasco. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/34 "2012-05-15T23:30:27Z")
Pesto. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/35 "2012-05-16T01:06:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Soy. I came in here to say this, and I’m a little startled that more people haven’t. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the OP and they’re asking specifically about a “sauce” as in “sauce you add to a prepared dish for extra flavoring” and not “something called a sauce that you use in dressing **or** preparing a dish”? Because if I have to go through life trying to cook without bechamel sauce, tomato sauce, mayonnaise, beurre blanc, pesto and all their relatives, I’ll be damned if I’ll sacrifice soy sauce as well for something as inessential as ketchup or triple ginger sauce. (And that’s assuming I can still sneak in what some Anglophone culinary traditions call “salad sauces” by insisting that their name is “salad dressings”.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/36 "2012-05-16T01:10:44Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Hot fudge. > > What?! It’s a sauce. Yep. Or caramel… it’s a sauce too, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/37 "2012-05-16T02:24:55Z")
Béchamel. One of the mother sauces. In the South, we call it gravy. Oh sure, bicker and point how wrong I am. It’s milk, flour and fat. It is the foundation of a cuisine that makes us fat and happy. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/38 "2012-05-16T08:40:55Z")
Hollandaise is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/39 "2012-05-16T10:57:01Z")
Definitely soy. I’ll miss fish sauce and tomato sauce, but must have soy. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-sauce-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/621933/40 "2012-05-16T14:14:25Z")
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