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This just happened - streaker picked the wrong cricket player to run at :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=706552WGY5M

I love that little "yeah, I'm a badass" stroll and pose he did afterward.

There's actual stadium filled with cricket fans?

That is Australia vs India. The population of India is 1.12 billion, with cricket the most popular sport. Same in neighbouring countries Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc.

There's probably more cricket fans in India than there are sports fans in North America combined.

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Was that pitcher having a spasm?

Watch till the end.  A player tackle a naked runner.

Yea I saw that.  I'm still worried about the Indian pitcher's neurological system.

When I visited Sydney, they were in the middle of expanding their Cricket stadium to seat over 100k.

This is not out of the ordinary at all.

Actually, a stadium filled with cricket fans that can fit 100k is pretty rare. Apart from in India.

LOL @ world then.  Man, and I thought baseball looked boring...

Fixed.

So do all cricket players use pink bats?  Or do they have their own breast cancer thing going on.

Yep it's a breast cancer thing. One of the players' wives had breast cancer and several of them got involved in fundraising after that.

And now they've recoloured all the tomato sauce bottles pink - instead of red.  How stupid is that?  Tomato sauce (ketchup for you yanks) is red - and is in a red bottle.  Everyone knows that.  Barbecue sauce is brown, mustard is yellow, and tomato sauce is red.  Pink is for sweet chilli or some other crazy sauce.

Serious question -- what do you call just plain tomato sauce that's tomatoes and nothing else?

This (just tomato):
(http://ninecooks.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/tomatosauce.jpg)

vs. this (tomato plus sugar, vinegar, and spices):
(http://www.silverfernz.com/ProdImages/food/tomsauce560p.jpg)

If they're both just called tomato sauce, how do you differentiate between the two so you don't end up with ketchup on your pasta?

Context. People who want tomato sauce on their pasta do not want ketchup. It the same as when somebody tells you that you hit the ping-pong ball with the bat to serve - you are unlikely to think that you need to get a nocturnal flying mammal.

Suppose you're sending someone to the supermarket and you need some tomato sauce of the pasta variety -- do you say "tomato sauce of the pasta variety"?  Or do you say "pick up some tomato sauce because I'm going to make some pizza later"?  I guess you could say "a can of tomato sauce" and they'd be able to infer it from that, since most ketchups come in bottles and most tomato sauces come in cans, but that seems dodgy.

What if you've got a recipe for barbecue sauce and it says to start with a cup of tomato sauce?  Both tomato sauce and ketchup are valid barbecue sauce ingredients.  WHAT THEN?

(edit) What I'm saying is that the two are dissimilar enough that you probably wouldn't want to mix them up, but they're similar enough that you'll sometimes encounter both in the same context.  Which is not the case for bats.

Then again, I've had Wattie's spaghetti and it does taste like they just put the ketchup on it.  So maybe there truly is no distinction in some areas.

(edit x2) Another conundrum.  Tomato sauce is an ingredient of ketchup.  But if you call ketchup tomato sauce, then tomato sauce is an ingredient OF ITSELF.  How the hell do you sort that one out?

Tomato purée

(And that's tomahto, not tomayto)  :grin:

Do you call the plain tomato goop in a can tomato puree as well?  If so, that solves the entire problem and I'm satisfied.

The tomato stuff for pasta is pasta sauce. The tomato goop for spreading on pizza bases is tomato paste. The stuff for pouring on hotdogs and meat pies is tomato sauce. I just asked the British guy next to me and he uses the same terms.

Ketchup is a word the USA accidentally appropriated from the Indonesian "kecap" (pronounced ketchup) which is a thick, sweetened soy sauce they use on everything. Everywhere you go in Java, they have a kecap bottle on all restaurant tables.

Previously Indonesia was the "Dutch East Indies", a major sea trading hub, and sailors took to using kecap on their food. It wasn't available in the US, so a sweet tomato sauce became known as ketchup. In Australia, our biggest neighbouring nation consists of Indonesians eating kecap, so we can't call tomato sauce ketchup.

It's one of the few Indonesian words to enter English. Another is amok, as in "the protesters ran amok" (the original word means exactly the same, except it's considered a very Indonesian thing to go amok).

Passata ftw.

Jeeze, the lengths to which the brits will go to not adopt a US term <:

Yeah it's a deliberate conspiracy. The government is dictating what words we are allowed to use in conversation.

"Eyup!  Can ya get us some pasta sauce while you're down the shops?  Cheers luv!"