It's called sauce but it's not actually a sauce. The only people who eat it like it's a sauce are 4 year olds who haven't been taught to eat adult food and get chicken nuggets and chips for their dinner 7 days a week.
The Oxford English Dictionary says eat my brown sauce, bitch.
Pronunciation:
Brit.
/sɔːs/
,
U.S.
/sɔs/
,
/sɑs/
Forms: ME
sawse,
Sc. salss, ME–17
sawce,
sause, ME
saus,
sace, ME–15
Sc. sals(e, 15
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Etymology: < French
sauce (in Old French also
sausse ) = Provençal
salsa , Spanish
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a. Any preparation, usually liquid or soft, and often consisting of several ingredients, intended to be eaten as an appetizing accompaniment to some article of food. †Formerly occasionally applied to a condiment of any kind.Often with qualifying word denoting the predominant ingredient, as bread sauce, egg sauce, mint sauce, parsley sauce, or with qualifying adj., as black sauce, brown sauce, hard sauce, white sauce. †Also (15th c.) in many adopted French terms, as sauce cameline, sauce galantine, sauce gansell, etc.: see Two Cookery-bks. 77 (c1450–110) and 108 (c1430). Occasionally, in the names of sauces taken unchanged from French into English, found with the qualifying word following; in such cases the French pronunc. /sos/ may be heard. sauce Robert /sos rɔbɛr/: a sauce consisting of chopped onions cooked with butter and seasoned. See also allemande n. 3, Béarnaise n., mornay n., Soubise n. 2.
a1375
William of Palerne (1867) l. 1882 Þei ete at here ese as þei miȝt þanne, boute salt oþer sauce or any semli drynk.
c1386 Chaucer
Nun's Priest's Tale 14 Of poynaunt sauce [
v.rr. sawce, sause] hir neded neuer a deel.
c1400 (▸
?c1380)
Cleanness (1920) l. 823 [Lot's wife] sayde softely to hir self ‘þis vn~sauere [
MS. vn-fauere] hyne Louez no salt in her sauce’.
a1475
Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 52 For grete lordis þou schalt take wyne With safroune to þy sawce ful fyne.
1481–90
Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 109 Otmele j.d. Sasis j.d. Clos and mas j.d.
▸ ?
a1505 R. Henryson
Test. Cresseid 421 in
Poems (1981) 124 The sweit meitis seruit in plaittis clene With saipheron sals of ane gude sessoun.
a1525 (▸
c1448) R. Holland
Bk. Howlat l. 705 in W. A. Craigie
Asloan MS (1925) II. 117 Mony sawouris salss with sewaris he send.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli
Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 42 Use it at meales in the maner of a saulce.
1573 C. Hollyband
French Schoole-maister 114 Cut some of these loynes of the hare, drest with a blacke sauce.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens
Niewe Herball ii. lxxvi. 250 This herbe is also used..in Salades and sawces.
1633 P. Fletcher
Purple Island i. xxvii. 8 While sugar hires the taste the brain to drown, And bribes of sauce corrupt false appetite.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall
Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 186 A sharp kind of sowrenesse in sawces is esteemed pleasing and tastfull.
a1682 Sir T. Browne
Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 81 Sawce made of Raisins stamped with Vinegar.
1723 J. Nott
Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Bb6
To dress Pikes a la Sainte Robert [
sic]..make your Sauce Robert in the following manner.
1723 J. Nott
Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Dv
Artichokes with whie [sic]
Sauce... Make a Sauce for them with the Yolks of Eggs, a Drop or two of Vinegar, and a little Gravy.
1743 E. Moxon
Eng. Housewifry (new ed.) 18 You may brown your Sauce with a few Trophels or Morels.
1750 W. Ellis
Country Housewife's Family Compan. 246 For Sauce to such a Pudding, they strew a little Sugar over it when out of the oven, and then it becomes so palatable that [etc.].
1806 J. Simpson
Compl. Syst. Cookery 293 Pigs feet au gratin, ears shredded, and sauce robert.
1845 E. Acton
Mod. Cookery iv. 116
Bechamel. This is a fine French white sauce, now very much served at good English tables.
1845 E. Acton
Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) iv. 127 Parsley-Green, For Colouring Sauces.
1845 E. Acton
Mod. Cookery iv. 130
Sauce Robert... Large onions,..butter,..flour..gravy..mustard.
1884
Girl's Own Paper May 427/3 Boiled chicken..covered with white sauce.
1909
Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Brown sauce = Espagnole sauce.
1928 S. Lewis
Man who knew Coolidge i. 103 A..Plum Pudding..with both hard and soft sauce.
1935 ‘R. Hull’
Keep it Quiet xxix. 279 A brown substance..called generally ‘Sauce Robert’, which disfigures cutlets and suchlike.
1960
Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) 196/1 The foundation of all brown and white sauces in which flour is the thickening agent is the roux, formed by cooking the butter and flour together. For white sauces the butter should be melted, the flour added and the two stirred and cooked together until well incorporated. The liquid should then be added by degrees.
1974 ‘E. McGirr’
Murderous Journey 90 His man had a certain way with Sauce Robert which gave it an added piquancy.
1981 M. C. Smith
Gorky Park iii. 304 She'd brought cartons of spaghetti with meat, clam and white sauces.