Fry sauce
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Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or other food in many places in the world. It is a combination of tomato ketchup and mayonnaise.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
United States

Fry sauce was popularized in Utah.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> although sauce made of a mixture of equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise appears in a New Orleans cookbook published in 1900.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Utah origin is when Don Carlos Edwards used a pink sauce at his restaurant, Don Carlos Barbecue, sometime between 1941 and 1943. Edwards also used the pink sauce at the first Arctic Circle restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, which opened in 1950. The "pink sauce",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> later became known as fry sauce. In his essay on Utah fry sauce, Michael P. Christensen noted that fry sauce "functions as a cultural identifier for Utahns."<ref name=Christensen>Template:Cite book</ref> The Arctic Circle chain still serves fry sauce in its western United States restaurants.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In April 2018, Heinz announced the release of "Mayochup", a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup,<ref name="Mayochup" /> because 500,000+ users voted "yes" in a Twitter poll asking Americans if they wanted to see it in stores. A number of Twitter users responded that such a mixture already existed as "fry sauce" and "fancy sauce".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The sauce arrived at U.S. retailers' shelves in September 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Mayochup">Template:Cite web</ref>
The sauce is similar to Yum Yum sauce, which is popular in Japanese steakhouses in America.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
South America
In Argentina and Uruguay, a similar condiment known as Template:Lang (golf sauce) is a popular dressing for fries, burgers, steak sandwiches, and seafood salads. According to tradition, the sauce was invented by Luis Federico Leloir, a Nobel laureate and restaurant patron, at a golf club in Mar del Plata, Argentina, during the mid-1920s.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
France
In France, many Turkish restaurants and fast food establishments serve fry sauce and call it Template:Lang; it is also common for customers to request Template:Lang (a dab of mayonnaise and a dab of ketchup) alongside their French fries at such places. Both sauce cocktail and the Thousand Island dressing-like sauce cocktail can often be found in supermarkets.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Germany
In Germany, a popular product called Template:Lang (red white) is sold in toothpaste-style tubes; it consists of unmixed ketchup and mayonnaise, which form a red-and-white striped string when squeezed out. Fries at restaurants are sometimes served with an equal mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This style of serving is often called Pommes Rot-Weiß or, colloquially Pommes Schranke (barrier gate) due to the red-and-white coloration of those. Template:Lang or Template:Lang (fry sauce) is a lightly spiced mayonnaise similar to the Dutch Template:Lang. A condiment similar to the American fry sauce is known as Template:Lang, but it is more often used for döner kebab than for French fries.Template:Cn
Iceland
In Iceland, a condiment similar to fry sauce called Template:Lang (cocktail sauce) is popular.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Philippines
In the Philippines, a similar sauce is made by combining mayonnaise and banana ketchup. It is commonly used as a dipping sauce for fried food like french fries and cheese sticks (deep fried cheese wrapped in lumpia wrapper) but also for appetizers like lumpia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom this sauce is known as "burger sauce", and is served premixed, or separate, but together, similar to the Turkish Template:Lang. The ketchup is put in the container followed by the mayonnaise, and is mixed by hand by the consumer, using the desired foodstuffs to mix them together as it is dipped.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, mayokétchup is widely used with Template:Lang, sandwiches, burgers, and fried foods. It is made of equal parts of mayonnaise and ketchup with the addition of garlic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Japan
In Japan, this sauce is known as "aurora sauce". It is different from the sauce of the same name used in French cuisine.Template:Cn
Russia
In Russia, the mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise is known as "ketchunez".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2019, the local Heinz division launched a sauce with this name.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
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- Comeback sauce
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- Fritessaus
- List of dips
- List of sauces
- Marie Rose sauce
- Mayochup
- Pink sauce
- Remoulade
- Russian dressing
- Secret sauce
- Special sauce
- Thousand Island dressing
References
Further reading
- "The creators of fry sauce turn 60" — KSL.com
- "Fry sauce and Arctic Circle hit big 6-0" — Deseret News
- "My search for the truth: Who invented Utah's fry sauce?" — Deseret News