Queer Food Tomato Sauce
Queer Food Tomato Sauce
Queer Food Tomato Sauce
Queer Food Tomato Sauce

Queer Food Tomato Sauce

Queer Food Tomato Sauce

$16.00
$16.00
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Queer Food began in the kitchen as a catering company, creating menus that told LGBTQIA+ stories through food at events, gatherings, and celebrations. As we’ve grown to focus on products, we’ve started bottling those same flavours, turning what once lived only on our catering menu into something you can bring home.

Our tomato sauce is one of our most requested, and is featured on our Pauline Pantsdown canapé, a halal snack pack inspired bite that nods to Simon Hunt’s iconic drag persona. Through Pauline Pantsdown, Hunt used performance and parody to challenge power and spark conversation. Familiar, comforting, and made with care, this sauce carries that same spirit, bold, expressive, and rooted in community.

This is a house-made sauce we’ve served time and time again, now bottled so you can bring the flavours of Queer Food home.
Ingredients Nutritional Information

Passata, tomato paste, water, apple cider vinegar, caster sugar, yellow mustard powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, salt, and pepper.

By serve (10ml):

  • Energy: 26 kJ
  • Protein: 0.2 g
  • Fat (total): 0.1 g
  • Fat (saturated): 0.0 g
  • Carbohydrates: 1.2 g
  • Sugars: 1.1 g
  • Dietary fibre: 0.1 g
  • Sodium: 62 mg

By 100ml:

  • Energy: 262 kJ
  • Protein: 1.8 g
  • Fat (total): 0.5 g
  • Fat (saturated): 0.1 g
  • Carbohydrates: 11.8 g
  • Sugars: 10.8 g
  • Dietary fibre: 1.1 g
  • Sodium: 619 mg
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    Queer Food Tomato Sauce

    Queer Food Tomato Sauce

    $16.00
    $16.00
    THE STORY BEHIND THE PRODUCT

    Pauline Pantsdown – Saucy Protest - BBQ and Tomato

    The intersection of queerness, politics, and parody has never been spicier than with Pauline Pantsdown, the drag persona of musician and activist Simon Hunt. In the late 1990s, Pantsdown became a queer icon by taking on conservative politician Pauline Hanson — turning fearmongering into satire through camp, humour, and performance art.

    With cult hits like “Backdoor Man” and “I Don’t Like It,” Pantsdown redefined political protest, using laughter to challenge hate and champion inclusion. Even legally changing his name to Pauline Pantsdown — so it would appear on an electoral ballot — became an unforgettable act of defiance.

    When Hanson later claimed that eating a Halal Snack Pack meant “supporting the Islamisation of Australia,” we couldn’t resist responding with flavour. Originally created to accompany our queer reimagining of the HSP, our BBQ and Tomato sauces now stand proudly on their own — made to bring joy, heat, and a touch of protest to any meal.

    References

    BBC News (2017) Halal snack pack: How a takeaway became a symbol of unity. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38824058

    Pantsdown, P. (1998) I Don’t Like It [YouTube video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjq9efQ2tFo

    Pantsdown, P. (n.d.) Pauline Pantsdown [Facebook page]. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/paulinepantsdown666/
    Download a printable PDF story card here

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