Fry sauce

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Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In the United StatesEdit

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Fry sauce in sealed plastic cups with fries on a tray in Utah

Although sauce composed of a mixture of equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise appears in a New Orleans cookbook published in 1900,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> fry sauce was popularized in Utah.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 the two sauces,<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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Mayochup">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The sauce is also closely related to Yum Yum sauce, which is popular in Japanese steakhouses in America.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Outside the United StatesEdit

In Argentina and Uruguay, a similar condiment known as {{#invoke:Lang|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>

In France, many Turkish restaurants and fast food establishments serve fry sauce and call it {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}; it is also common for customers to request {{#invoke:Lang|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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Germany, a popular product called {{#invoke:Lang|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. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (fry sauce) is a lightly spiced mayonnaise similar to the Dutch {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. A condiment similar to the American fry sauce is known as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, but it is more often used for döner kebab than for French fries.

In Iceland, a condiment similar to fry sauce called {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (cocktail sauce) is popular.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the United Kingdom, more specifically, London, this sauce is known as "burger sauce", and is served in one of two ways:

Premixed, similarly to the photos above;
Separate, but together, similar to the Turkish {{#invoke:Lang|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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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In Puerto Rico, mayokétchup is widely used with {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, sandwiches, burgers, and fried foods. It is made of equal parts of mayonnaise and ketchup with the addition of garlic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Japan, this sauce is known as "aurora sauce". It is different from the sauce of the same name used in French cuisine.

In Russia, the mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise is known as “ketchunez”.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2019, the local Heinz division launched a sauce with this name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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