Ingredient
Our Tartar Sauce
Our tartar sauce turns up on twelve plates across six of the kitchens we read. The entree section holds seven of them, and it comes as a sandwich more often than anything else, on two.
From 40 menus · our tartar sauce is on 12 plates · How we read them
Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
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The journey of our tartar sauce
The same 12 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | fried | 6 |
| How it comes | platter | 1 |
| Where on the menu | entree | 3 |
| Other | 17 other steps, added up | 19 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 16 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| fried | — | — | 6 |
| fried | not stated | — | 5 |
| fried | not stated | entree | 3 |
| fried | not stated | appetizer | 1 |
| fried | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| fried | platter | — | 1 |
| fried | platter | not stated | 1 |
| battered | — | — | 2 |
| battered | not stated | — | 1 |
| battered | not stated | appetizer | 1 |
| battered | platter | — | 1 |
| battered | platter | not stated | 1 |
| broiled | — | — | 2 |
| broiled | not stated | — | 1 |
| broiled | not stated | entree | 1 |
| broiled | sandwich | — | 1 |
| broiled | sandwich | entree | 1 |
| breaded | — | — | 1 |
| breaded | not stated | — | 1 |
| breaded | not stated | entree | 1 |
| deep-fried | — | — | 1 |
| deep-fried | not stated | — | 1 |
| deep-fried | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | — | — | 1 |
| grilled | not stated | — | 1 |
| grilled | not stated | not stated | 1 |
| stuffed | — | — | 1 |
| stuffed | not stated | — | 1 |
| stuffed | not stated | entree | 1 |
| wrapped | — | — | 1 |
| wrapped | sandwich | — | 1 |
| wrapped | sandwich | appetizer | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
Dishes
Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.
Our reading of the menu lists: jerk, breast, wrapped.
Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.
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Our reading of the menu lists: turkey, oyster, chicken filet.
Our reading of the menu lists jerk, sliced and jerk chicken.
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
In the family
Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All sauce
Where on the island
The 6 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Midtown | 2 | bayside · oceanfront |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 1 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 2 | harbor · inland |