Talk:Duck sauce

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Is this really called duck sauce? Surely duck sauce should have duck in it? Deb 18:06, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Why? Barbecue sauce doesn't contain barbecue.Apofisu 03:16, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Regional 2 Revert 3 Merge with Plum sauce 4 I beg to differ, sir 5 Plum Sauce

[edit] Regional

Duck sauce seems to be regional as well. Some places used peaches and apricots, others use plums and apricots. Color also seems to vary, from pink to yellow.

Also, what is the etymology behind "duck sauce" ?

Well, I know that several west coast Chinese restaurants I've been to don't use duck sauce at all, and if you ask for it, they've never even heard of it. Closest you can get is sweet & sour sauce, which is a bright red in color, rather than orange or yellow. Whereas on the east coast, every Chinese restaurant I've ever been to gives you duck sauce by default, whether you ask for it or not. (They also have sweet & sour sauce, which is definitely distinct from duck sauce.) Lurlock 05:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

I reverted this to a redirect to plum sauce, since someone had written that duck sauce was made of ducks, which doesn't seem to be borne out by other info.

[edit] Merge with Plum sauce

This article should be merged. They're both two different names for the same sauce. --Db099221 04:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Since there hasn't been any further objection, I'm going to merge the Plum sauce article into this one. Plum sauce doesn't contain any info that's not in this article (actually, I think they are exactly the same), so I'm going just going to clear Plum sauce and make the redirect. --Sopoforic 21:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I beg to differ, sir

I answered the etymology question, at least a bit. And it should not be merged with duck sauce, seeing that everyone is asking about duck sauce specifically as it seems to be a more common name. Even on the plum sauce page there is a discussion about why it's called duck sauce. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.191.223.69 (talk)

There's no reason we can't redirect the one article to the other after we merge. --Sopoforic 23:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

A "more common name"?!?! It's only bloody Americans who use this name! And not all of them! In Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, we call it "plum sauce". Pure and simple! Why do Americans insist on making up stupid names for stuff? Morandir (talk) 04:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plum Sauce

Where I'm from (northeastern US), plum sauce is used to refer to Hoisin sauce, not duck sauce. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.140.171.5 (talk) 19:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC).