The Red and Brown Dilemma: How saucy will you get on Saturday?
Posted on: 28 Feb 2015
It's time to get saucy. Red or brown saucy, that is.
It's a predicament that's perplexed even the most ardent and enthusiastic of breakfast lovers for decades. A quandary that's confounded those partial a Full English early morning Saturday kick-starter or sausage sarnie. Torn between the two, it's an allegiance that has to lie with one or the other. Red or brown sauce. How do you decide? Which one do you choose?
However, it's a universally acknowledged fact that when it comes to judicious squirt of the red or brown stuff, there are two kinds of people. Red sauce people and brown sauce people - and, it would seem, never the twain shall meet.
A recent poll revealed that the nation is pretty evenly split when when it comes to selecting red or brown sauce on breakfasts and in sandwiches.
Chances are you're reading this first thing Saturday morning and contemplating heading out for a breakfast or sandwich , possibly to soak up the excesses of Friday night's copious consumption of real ales, or just because you want to get your weekend off to a tasty and hearty start.
A third of people opt for red sauce, a third plump for brown - so the UK is irrefutably 50/50 when it comes to applying its favourite saucy slatherings.
There are, of course, those who prefer go au naturale with their breakfasts or sausage and bacon sarnie and eschew any kind of coloured condiment at all.
4% of people, in fact, prefer a different kind of sauce altogether, while the more extreme and gastronomically sacrilegious somewhat shamefully boast they prefer no sauce at all.
Interesting too, there seems to be a definite gender divide involved in these saucy antics. 40% of men prefer brown sauce, 27% women, while 35% of women smear on the red sauce, 31% men.
Age also seems to be contributing factor, red sauce being favoured by 44% of 18-24 year olds compared to a significantly smaller 17% of over 60s. And brown seems to be the sauce of choice for the older generation - 40% o over 60s prefer it compared to 19% of 18-24 year olds.
Intriguingly, a north-south divide also exists, with 37% of folk in the North of England reaching for the brown sauce, 40% in Scotland, and red being the flavour to savour in the South (36%), Wales the same, and 36% in the Midlands.
We're sure there won't be any such discombobulating saucy shenanigans when you had for your breakfast or sarnie this morning.
And when it comes to an early morning re-fuel to get you galvanised for the weekend ahead, we can enthusiastically recommend several places that serve up deliciously tasty tucker, including Andels Cafe, Brunel's Buttery, The Flavour Sensation, and Gas and Co.
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Born and raised in the suburbs of Swansea, Jimmy moved to Bristol back in 2004 to attend university. Passionate about live music, sport, science and nature, he can usually be found walking his cocker spaniel Baxter at any number of green spots around the city. Call James on 078 9999 3534 or email Editor@365Bristol.com.
