Fry sauce

Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise.[1]

Although sauce composed of a mixture of equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise appears in a New Orleans cookbook published in 1900,[2] fry sauce was originally popularized in the United States by a chef named Don Carlos Edwards, who served it in his first restaurant, Don Carlos’ Barbecue in Salt Lake City, which eventually became the Utah-based restaurant chain Arctic Circle in the 1950s.[3] The chain still serves fry sauce in its western United States restaurants.[4]

In Puerto Rico, mayoketchup is widely used with tostones, sandwiches, burgers, and fried foods. It is made of two parts ketchup and one part mayonnaise with the addition of garlic.[5]

In April 2018, Heinz announced the release of “Mayochup”, a mixture of the two sauces,[6] because 500,000+ users voted “yes” in a Twitter poll asking Americans if they wanted to see it in stores. A number of Twitter users responded that such a mixture already existed as “fry sauce” and “fancy sauce”.[7][8] The sauce arrived at U.S. retailers’ shelves in September 2018.[9][6]

Several fast food chains have individually branded variants of fry sauce using a mayonnaise and ketchup base, including Zaxby’s,[10] Raising Cane’s,[11][12] and Freddy’s.[13]

The sauce is also closely related to Yum Yum sauce, which is popular in Japanese Steakhouses in America