Talk:hot sauce

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hot sauce

Did I finally find the mother of all SOPs? The Wikipedia article says that hot sauce is a hot sauce made of chili or anything. --Hekaheka (talk) 02:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Keep. No it doesn't, it says hot sauce is made of chili and other ingredients. Even if we stick to the relevant meaning of hot (= spicy), a sauce that's hot/spicy because it's made with wasabi or mustard rather than with chili peppers wouldn't be a hot sauce. Even the phonology of this phrase shows that it's a single concept: the primary stress is on hot, just as it is in hot dog. If this were just any sauce that's hot, the primary stress would be on sauce. —Angr 06:01, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

You mean that a very spicy sauce is not a hot sauce if there's no chili in it? --Hekaheka (talk) 08:18, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes. At least, it may be a [ˌhɑt ˈsɔs], but it isn't [ˈhɑtˌsɔs] (the same day a domestic canine lying in the sun on a warm summer's day may be a [ˌhɑt ˈdɔɡ], but isn't a [ˈhɑtˌdɔɡ]). Also, being hot (spicy) isn't even a necessary condition for being hot sauce: "mild hot sauce" is not a contradiction in terms. —Angr 08:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Keep. Ƿidsiþ 08:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Keep "chili sauce" would be SOP, "hot sauce" isn't. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:43, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Keep. —Ruakh_TALK 11:16, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

All right - case closed. --Hekaheka (talk) 12:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)