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There are white sauce, brown sauce, and orange sauce. The last one only just counts because it’s really named for the fruit not the colour. But ANYWAY can fedi think of any other sauces named for their colour?

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in reply to Alexandra Lanes

If orange sauce counts, cream sauce and chocolate sauce should 😛
in reply to Adam

more seriously, "red sauce" gets used for tomato sauces of various sorts.
in reply to Adam

@pseudomonas For no reason, in a vaguely OED desire to find a formalish citation: Greggs certainly have the option "Sauces: None / Red / Brown" on their paper bags.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes

Salsa Verde and Mole Negro off the top of my head. Quite sure I've seen ketchup referred to as red sauce, too.
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Eleanor LNR Blair
@sesquipedality @karohemd this made me laugh, because as kids we used "pink flavour" to describe sweets which were pink in colour and vaguely fruity but you couldn't tell if they were supposed to be raspberry or strawberry or something else.