Comeback sauce is a
dipping sauce
A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, chopped raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chi ...
for fried foods or as a
salad dressing in the cuisine of central
Mississippi. Similar to
Louisiana remoulade, the base of the sauce consists of
mayonnaise
Mayonnaise (; ), colloquially referred to as "mayo" , is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce or dressing commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries. It also forms the base for various other sauces, such as tartar ...
and
chili sauce (or some approximation of that combination). The origin has been credited to The Rotisserie, a Greek restaurant that was located in
Jackson, Mississippi.
Several Jackson, Mississippi, restaurants serve their own variations of the sauce and many offer bottled comeback sauce.
See also
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Russian dressing
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Thousand Island dressing
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Fry sauce
References
External links
Recipe
Sauces
Cuisine of the Southern United States
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