Sauce

**Sauce** is a type of fruit native to Snaktooth Island. It functions as a lure and decoy for Bugsnax, used in combination with the Sauce Slinger.

The **Sauce plants** grows flowers and from the flower's pistil the Sauce is formed. Sauce fruits have a bottle-like appearance, with a soft outer tissue that burst upon collision with any surface. It dissolves when it comes in contact with water.

There are six known species/types of sauce and some species are exclusive to a certain biome. The conditions of these biomes (resources and weather) do not affect the ability of any sauce species to be able to grow. The plants are 'ever-bearing', meaning it grows throughout the seasons.

When the Journalist obtains a new type of Sauce, it will become available in Wambus's farm in Snaxburg. When picked from the flower, it will grow back after a few seconds and bear a total of five fruits. These fruits can be picked individually by hand or Snakgrappled in one shot. The latter can only be done on a 'wild bush' as Field Tools (with the exception of the SnaxScope) cannot be accessed in Snaxburg. The Journalist can carry a maximum of 20 bottles per Sauce.

Most Bugsnax native to a biome are attracted to certain sauces and at least one of their preferred sauces will be growing in that biome, reflecting a natural ecosystem. The attraction of certain Bugsnax to Sauce is based on "what sauce goes well with that dish" according to United States cuisine. Among Bugsnax, Sodies are an outlier species who "dislike Sauce" and spray any sight of it, causing it to dissolve.

## Sauce Plants

Sauce plants have strong stems to hold up their sauce fruits. Sauce fruits grow with the supposed bottlecap side outward.
The sauce drips on the plants leaves.

## Fiction

As early as Lizbert's expedition team set foot on Snaktooth Island, they have been experimenting with food alternatives to eating Bugsnax, as the latter they found out needs to be eaten raw and alive. Gramble is the only expeditionee who takes issue with this treatment of these creatures.

Wambus Troubleham has been farming the main alternative the island has to offer, namely sauce, which would help one sustain/survive just long enough, although it is not "the healthiest"Interview Eggabell pt.2!.

Grumpuses who are able to resist eating Bugsnax seem to be able to subsist on sauce alone, as Shelda eats only cheese sauce while in the desert, and Wambus considers sauce an alternate food source. It is possible that Gramble and the Journalist survive on sauce as well, as they are not seen eating Bugsnax (at least of their own volition).

* Wambus throws sauce on other characters on two occasions:
	+ He throws ketchup on Filbo in the beginning of the game, accidentally getting him attacked by a Bunger.
	+ He throws chocolate on Cromdo at the end of the game, who realizes he likes it after he had doubted its taste.

* Sauce plants are unique to Snaktooth Island, though Wambus does bring ketchup plants back with him to the mainland.
* Sauce plants are closely-related enough that they can be cross-pollinated into new flavors, which is how Wambus grew his Special Sauce.

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## References & Notes

1. ↑ The symbiosis between Snax and Sauce does not rely on survival and reproduction. Bugsnax do not feed on Sauce but are simply attracted to it. If Sauces rely on Bugsnax to spread their seeds is undisclosed.
2. ↑ If Bugsnax were to reflect the culture of nearby mainland New Grump City, based off of New York City, to show recognisable food as to manipulate consumption, it would fit the story's direction. However, New York is nowhere near the equator and ancient Grumpuses are roughly based off of the South Americas and South East Asia (right beneath the equator) and to them a 'pickle jar' or 'mozarella pizza' would not be a foreign concept. No cuisine of any other culture, aside what is acceptable, known and popular within mainstream United States culture, is present on the island or is alluded to have ever been present.
3. ↑ Sodies treat exposure to sauce the same as fire. As presence of either cause chaos in the biosphere, it might be that Sodies fulfill a neutralizing role within the biome's ecosystem.
4. ↑ **Honey** is found in the files but is not in-game. Due to Hunnabees being native in Sugarpine Woods perhaps it would have been found there.