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Tomato sauce/ketchup distinguish the two. Chips/french fries distinguish Restroom/toilet
distinguish biscuits/cookies/crackers distinguish.
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I went to the grocery store and bought some Heinz Ketchup and a can of Hunts Tomato
sauce. I bought some french fries and some chips. I went to the restroom and the
toilet overflowed.
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they also say universe/world distinguishes the whole universe from the earth. The
world is part of the universe.
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In Autralia "chips"/"chips", "tomato sauce"/"tomato sauce" & "toilet"/"toilet" are
distinguished by context. Hey, we get by. There is not right or wrong about it.
We do use the words "biscuits", "cookies" and "crackers" but they mean different
things in Australian English than they mean in American Engish (as far as I know).
As for "universe" verses "world", don't we all use these words the same way?
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It seems weird that they use tomato sauce and tomato sauce, chips and chips, toilet
and toilet, and can't distinguish between the two different things. it would sound
crazy to me.
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It's not that we can't distinguish between them. It's just done by context or clarifying
phrases where necessary. In any case it causes no problem. If it would sound crazy
to you then so be it. You might have a hard time if you go to Australia ... then,
on the other hand, you'd probably get used to it pretty soon (unless you're kind
of slow).
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Ketchup sounds crazy to me. Is this a trademark or something?
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As Jim says, it's all a matter of context. If someone says "I'd like some tomato
sause with my chips and meat pie", you know instantly that they want the bottled
tomato sauce (ketchup to Americans) and not the tomato sauce eaten with spaghetti,
which I just call "spaghetti sauce". The same goes with chips, if someone says "I'd
like some chips from Maccas", you know that they are reffering to french fries.
If they say "I'd like some salt and vinigar potatoe chips", you know they want "crisps"
with salt and vinigar flavouring.
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Isn't the other so called "tomato sauce", (you know the one usually used to make
pasta, spaghetti) supposed to be called tomato paste. That what I thought it was
called anyway.
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I think "tomato paste" and/or "can tomato puree" are ingredients that can be used
instead of fresh tomatos when making the "tomato sauce" in pasta dishes.
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Vinegar, potato, tomatoes.
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Yeah, tomato paste is tomato puree. It's just tomatos pureed. You get it in a can,
it's thick and not that sweet.
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Ketchup was a Chinese sauce brought back to Britain by British sailors. The British
changed a lot of the ingredients around and one of the ingredients that British emigrant
New Englanders eventually added was tomatoes. Hence, ketchup in the US eventually
became that red stuff you get in a glass or plastic bottle in supermarkets everywhere.
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ketchup is not a trademark, ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.
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