You all know tomato sauce is ketchup here? And that we pay extra to get ketchup made the Australian ('simple') way (ie, no high fructose corn syrup...).
But, there is more to it than this.
Tomato paste is tomato paste. so far, so good.
Pasta Sauce is...well, pasta sauce, but it is also tomato sauce! (I think) We buy bottles of pasta sauce in all sorts of flavours - I have a roasted garlic one in the cupboard, but we also recently tried one with vodka cheese flavour, and I'm pretty sure I remember some sort of oregano one.
However, you can buy tomato sauce, in a can, which looks to all intents and purposes like tomato puree in a can, EXCEPT... the tomato sauce has stock and other things added, where as the tomato puree is just pureed tomatoes.
So, say tomato sauce, and probably people are picturing the stuff you put on pasta.
It took possibly a month for us to work out the different between Tomato Puree, and Tomato Sauce. We kept on buying one, then the other, thinking no, it must be the same thing (life is very busy here, we get vague about cans very fast), then finally, we had one of each in the cupboard, and I had a spare 5 mins in front of the pantry to read the ingredients and work it out!
Small victory, but quite satisfying to work out the mystery of finding recipes that call for tomato sauce, in huge amounts.
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