Do people know local Italian restaurants will sell you sauce?

[Anonymous]

Good tip Op. I don’t know why people are being so negative. I’m sure it’s homemade. It’s a staple they use for many dishes and isn’t hard to make in larger batches. If it is decent restaurant, they make the pasta sauce

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know this. Last night my husband was getting pick up and randomly asked if he could buy a container of meat sauce. They said sure, they do it all the time. They gave him a huge container and it was only about the same price as Rao's! Fresh and no preservatives.

Rao's doesn't have preservatives either. Ever heard of canning?

You think Rao’s shelf-stable jarred meat sauce is no different than a nice restaurant’s fresh meat sauce? Um, sure.

Tell me you have never worked in a restaurant without telling me you have never worked in a restaurant. What do you think restaurants use for their tomato sauce -- fresh picked plum tomatoes? LOL. They are using canned tomatoes, passata, tomato paste, etc... Rao's ingredients are: Italian Whole Peeled Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Onions, Salt, Garlic, Basil, Black Pepper, Oregano. The canning process does nothing to damage the quality of the sauce. Personal preference is one thing, but there is no difference in the quality between Raos and a "nice" restaurant.

And the tiny pieces of meat in the Rao’s red meat sauce is just as good as a local restaurant’s, too? Are you a Rao’s intern or something? Such a weird thing to get testy about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good tip Op. I don’t know why people are being so negative. I’m sure it’s homemade. It’s a staple they use for many dishes and isn’t hard to make in larger batches. If it is decent restaurant, they make the pasta sauce

PP is convinced a nice Italian restaurant is just dumping $1 jars of Preggo onto their fresh pasta and the meat is chopped up hotdogs, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

It is not tacky to buy something that a store or restaurant sells. They also don’t care what you are doing with it; no need to “cover” with a silly story about dipping bread.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know this. Last night my husband was getting pick up and randomly asked if he could buy a container of meat sauce. They said sure, they do it all the time. They gave him a huge container and it was only about the same price as Rao's! Fresh and no preservatives.

Rao's doesn't have preservatives either. Ever heard of canning?

You think Rao’s shelf-stable jarred meat sauce is no different than a nice restaurant’s fresh meat sauce? Um, sure.

Tell me you have never worked in a restaurant without telling me you have never worked in a restaurant. What do you think restaurants use for their tomato sauce -- fresh picked plum tomatoes? LOL. They are using canned tomatoes, passata, tomato paste, etc... Rao's ingredients are: Italian Whole Peeled Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Onions, Salt, Garlic, Basil, Black Pepper, Oregano. The canning process does nothing to damage the quality of the sauce. Personal preference is one thing, but there is no difference in the quality between Raos and a "nice" restaurant.

And the tiny pieces of meat in the Rao’s red meat sauce is just as good as a local restaurant’s, too? Are you a Rao’s intern or something? Such a weird thing to get testy about.

DP. It’s stupid to buy “meat sauce” in a jar. Brown meat then add the Rao’s marinara to it. Jarred meat sauce is for people who don’t know how to cook. It is done by the time you boil pasta water and pasta.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

It is not tacky to buy something that a store or restaurant sells. They also don’t care what you are doing with it; no need to “cover” with a silly story about dipping bread.

I’d be embarrassed just buying off-menu sauce from a restaurant. It’s tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, how do you know it was Fresh and no preservatives? Oh wait, you don't.

Lol, what do you think they put in the container? It was still hot. It was obviously the standard sauce they use for all the meals. Some of y’all are so freakin’ cynical.

Why couldn't it just have been warmed up sauce? What do you think Pizza Hut puts in a container when you ask for extra sauce on the side?

We don’t eat Pizza Hut.

[Anonymous]

We buy sauce from Ledo's all the time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Filomena

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Anonymous wrote:We buy sauce from Ledo's all the time!

:Gag: Can't imagine using that for anything besides maybe drain cleaner.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

I buy salsa to go from a Mexican restaurant because their salsa is excellent. They’re happy to sell it to me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

It is not tacky to buy something that a store or restaurant sells. They also don’t care what you are doing with it; no need to “cover” with a silly story about dipping bread.

I’d be embarrassed just buying off-menu sauce from a restaurant. It’s tacky.

DP. Why do you think it’s tacky? Do you think sauce in a jar is tacky too, or just restaurant sauce?

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Anonymous wrote:Why not name the restaurant? I would love to know and taste test, please.

Any Italian restaurant will do this. But it’d be tacky to just order sauce. On your next big order just ask for a large (quart?) side of sauce. Say the kids like dipping bread into it. It won’t be more than $10. A jar of Rao’s is right in that range.

It is not tacky to buy something that a store or restaurant sells. They also don’t care what you are doing with it; no need to “cover” with a silly story about dipping bread.

I’d be embarrassed just buying off-menu sauce from a restaurant. It’s tacky.

DP. Why do you think it’s tacky? Do you think sauce in a jar is tacky too, or just restaurant sauce?

Because it seems to be an off-menu friendly gesture, so they’re doing you a favor. It is absolutely uncouth to just walk in and ask for a quart of sauce while getting nothing else.