Tomato ketchup has been voted the best sauce for a bacon butty

Ketchup wins – forget about brown sauce. 

It was International Bacon Day last weekend, so naturally LadBible took the opportunity to settle an age-old debate.

Which sauce is better on a bacon butty, red or brown? 

It could probably start a war among most households, and I imagine it has been the cause of divorce at least once before. 

It was an easy win for the humble red sauce, receiving almost 60% of over 15,000 votes.

Despite the clear win, people were still not happy.

One person wrote: ” Brown… all other answers are wrong!”, and another added: “I’m struggling as 59% are clearly wrong, crispy bacon deserves brown sauce, if it’s a sausage sandwich then ketchup is best… settled”.

One person was so angered by another’s suggestion of brown sauce on a bacon butty they decided to send over a really detailed recipe.

It goes: “White bloomer, 3/4 inch slices. A medium spread of butter, 4 rashers of thick cut unsmkd back bacon rind on. Cook so the meat is juicy & rind charred, tom K spread over the butter +squeeze over the bacon”. 

Like 58% of LadBible followers, I of course vote Ketchup and anything else arguably needs to be put straight in the bin.

But that doesn’t stop some suggestions that can lead you to questioning people’s sanity, including ‘mayonnaise’ and one that was simply a daft ‘peanut butter’ suggestion – but we’ll leave those people in a corner of the internet tucked away. 

If you’re angered with the results of the poll, I don’t know what to tell you – the people have spoken.