Recently rediscovered Herdez Salsa Verde. Herdez holds up really well, especially compared with the New Age salsas that contain corn syrup and thickeners despite their cruchy-looking yuppified brown-paperish labels. Herdez green salsa is the perfect sauce to layer into chilaquiles or pour over roasted pork.

Worcester Sauce - wonderful sprinkled over salt-free potato chips and fantastic on toasted cheese. Unlike the travesty of Branston Pickle that Crosse & Blackwell sell in the USA (totally different, bitter-tasting recipe), Worcester Sauce is the real deal ... or at least, as near to the British taste as makes no difference. Brilliant stuff!

Pickapeppa sauce in a Bloody Mary or just poured over a block of softened cream cheese for a party dip.

Also, I make a really mean salsa that brings the heat, but it's not available commercially ... sorry :-P

Lawry's Vintage salad dressing.

Ooh, that Herdez sounds really good. I used to be a huge fan of the milder Mrs. Renfro's green salsa, but apparently now they only do the jalapeno version :( :(

Pickapeppa is indeed awesome. There's a restaurant in town that serves a burger with Pickapeppa, cream cheese and Green Goddess dressing that is just lovely. Then you sop up the drips with the potatoes, and mmmmmm...

Roger Ebert recommended Saigon Sizzle, which is pretty good.

Since Chipotle went into business, I can't eat a burrito without alternating green and Smoked Tabasco. I usually dislike small-c chipotle or smoked flavors, but the Smoked Tabasco really hits the spot.

There's a local Costa Rican restaurant that makes two kinds of their own salsa you can buy to take home. Unfortunately, the restaurant itself has gone way downhill, but the red salsa is just crack on a stick. It's kind of like a thick V8 with cilantro, sweet and habanero peppers, onions, etc. in it. I put it in Greek yogurt and it makes the most cracktastically fabulous taco dip evarr.

Also, I make a really mean salsa that brings the heat, but it's not available commercially ... sorry :-P

Don't worry, WolfDaddy, we won't pay you for it when you make it for us all in the MetaChat Mansion. ;)

We get a very poor variety of salsas here in the UK in comparison to what you can find in the US. Things are beginning to change, though, so I'm hoping green salsa will be easier to find (buying tomatillos is near-impossible here).

Worcestershire sauce, on the other hand... HP sauce is also the very best thing one can eat, in certain circumstances.

Another vote for Worcestershire sauce, or "Wor sauce" as we called it around my family table in the 70s.

Also, cocktail sauce! The more horseradish, the better.

Also, sweet chilli sauce! I first encountered this in Australia, where it was so, so good. Back here in the US, I buy the Trader Joe's version, which is criminally inferior. Anyone have a recommendation?

2nd-ing Tabasco Chipotle. No Barbacoa taco is complete without it.

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Ah yes, sambal oelek. A permanent lodger in my refrigerator.

But actually, my sauce-of-all-sauces is one that I've only seen in one of the two Whole Foods stores near my house: Boulder Hot Sauce Company Smokey Serrano.

I'd be surprised if it can be found in any store outside the Mountain Time Zone - except specialty shops, perhaps. But if I ever moved away, I'd probably mail-order a bottle every year as a holiday gift to myself.

Ooh, that Herdez sounds really good. I used to be a huge fan of the milder Mrs. Renfro's green salsa, but apparently now they only do the jalapeno version :( :(

Exactly! I used to like that salsa too, and I just don't enjoy the jalepeno version. When I want a tomatillo salsa I don't really want the jalepeno flavor. Herdez, fortunately, is a lot like that old Mrs. Renfro variety.

Another vote for Worcestershire sauce, or "Wor sauce" as we called it around my family table in the 70s.

We still call it "what's this here sauce" in commemmoration of a lame joke on my dad's part. That is a darn good sauce, especially on roast beef.

I haven't had HP sauce but I think it's a little like A-1? I really love A-1. Funnily enough, I never liked ketchup at all. So A-1 took the place of ketchup when I was growing up. I don;t keep it around any more, mainly because hunks of red meat are rarer around my house these days.

I haven't had HP sauce but I think it's a little like A-1? I really love A-1.

If you ever get to a Wegmnans or one of those Safeway stores where they have "ethnic food" aisles, try out the HP Fruity sauce. This is like a runny version of what Branston Pickle tastes like in the UK - think A-1 steak sauce crossed with Applesauce.

I'll never forgive Crosse & Blackwell for what they have done to the taste of Branston Pickle in the US ... :-(

Sticky Fingers BBQ sauce.

Wolfdog, I want to share a fridge with you in MeCha Mansion. Sriracha all day, all the way!

I almost bought some worcesterchetsershire today, just to make chex mix. All chex, no mix. I didn't though, because my adolescence roommate has some kind of sauce phobia, and I really don't need to be making loads of chex mix.
I'm all about sauces, from a good mayonnaise to some saucier concoction and everything in between. I had brains once that were in such an amazing sauce that they could have been anything.
I think I'm experiencing generativity being around such young people. You get to introduce them to everything. They know nothing. Nothing! I think a beurre blanc might cause a stroke it would be such a revelation.

I can't remember the brand name, but WinCo in Fresno had an imported black bean & garlic sauce that did wonders for both flavoring and coloring foods. Also, Whole Foods curry paste. Either of these mixed with a complimentary liquid makes a really good sauce. Leaving California and Nevada behind also means no more fresh-cut Grade A salsas.

Ardiril, you lived in Atlanta for 20+ years and you don't talk about Dusty's BBQ when sauce is mentioned? Son, I am disappoint.

I didn't know it was commercially available.

Well no, it's not, especially since they went under recently. Sigh. But their hot BBQ sauce (the one you had to ask for) was the best sauce ever, and could clear your sinuses in one bite or less.

Ah, I see. For BBQ joints, Dusty's did have really good sauces, which was both good and bad because their meats were so full of smoke flavor that I didn't want to cover it up.

As I recall, JR's made a good BBQ sauce too that was way better than what you could buy at a store. Definitely worth $4 a pint for take-home, especially for a crockpot of Christmas cocktail wieners.