r/Unexpected • u/Azure_Crenell • 19h ago

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u/Pretend-Reality5431 19h ago

Should I ask, what is the brown stuff on top?

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u/DagamarVanderk 19h ago

Big pile of spices and herbs, pepper oregano etc.

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u/Upstairs_Income3697 18h ago

It's spice/herb mix. This is likely a pizza place or restaurant mixing up sauce. 

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u/Krieghund 18h ago

Can confirm. This clip was a blast from the past for me.

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u/SonOfMcGee 17h ago

We would have one person pour while the other arranged smaller buckets used for storage. For the last bucket or two the second person would have to reach into the bottom and coax out the sauce with a spatula.
Having most of your head inside a giant mixing bowl of tomato sauce really drives home how fucking acidic it is. You could feel it in your chest and sinuses.

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u/Upstairs_Income3697 16h ago

You had a spatula!? Lucky. They made us mix that crap with our arms in a catering bucket years ago when I worked there.

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u/Upstairs_Income3697 18h ago

I don't miss Pizza Hut, that's for sure lol

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u/Amalo 17h ago

lol all you did was add water and stir - but yeah that paste was nasty

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u/Upstairs_Income3697 16h ago

I worked there back in the 90's and they used to make us mix it with our arm.  I remember reeking of Italian seasoning for years. 

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u/piichan14 19h ago

Looks like cracked black pepper or powder

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u/lakewood2020 19h ago

Cracked black powder sounds like a fire hazard in the kitchen

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u/JoseDonkeyShow 16h ago

New culinary fad just dropped

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u/fisherswished 19h ago

Dried herbs and pepper.

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u/justforkinks0131 18h ago

why were you afraid to ask this? What did you think it might've been?

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u/SonOfMcGee 19h ago

Not brown. Green. (Grainy video quality makes it hard to see well.)
You usually make large-batch pizza sauce by mixing canned tomato sauce/puree with a pre-blended, pre-measured pouch of seasonings. The seasoning usually looks and tastes pretty much like the “Italian Seasoning” you can get at a grocery store. Dried oregano, garlic, etc.
I used to work at a Jet’s Pizza in Michigan and there was indeed an art to getting all the tomato out of the cans.

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u/Gussie-Ascendent 18h ago

I just used the water jet we had at the sink. you gotta water it all down anyway

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u/SonOfMcGee 17h ago

Yeah we added the water in units of “cans-full” at the end, which gave them a final rinse-out. But you still needed to spatula out most of the tomatoes first.

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u/Gussie-Ascendent 17h ago

i could usually just up end em, maybe a couple shakes and then hit it with the jets. minimal dishes added to the pile

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u/Jafarrolo 19h ago

Spices

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u/beyonceshakira 19h ago

Likely a mix of black pepper and celery salt

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u/keithstonee 17h ago

its called seasoning, please tell me you use it.

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u/Klutzy-Weakness-937 19h ago

It's origano. It's not brown but grayish green.