Many names for the same sauce.

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When I was a child (and not so little later on) we had barbeques and my mother made a wonderful sauce called "pebre" to add to the meat. It was delicious. It had diced onions, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, cilantro leaves and was dressed with salt, pepper and either vinegar or lemon juice. Just imagine it over a piece of meat! Time went by and someone invited me to Foz de Iguazú (the frontier between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay). There they gave me the very same sauce. Only it was called "chimichurri". So be it, I thought. And 2 years ago, when my youngest grandson on Tania´s side came with his fiancée, they left me some things they had bought. One of them was "pico de gallo". It was a Mexican sauce, they said. I thought, fine that Negor who is Iranian can say it is only Mexican. But a Chilean man should know that he had been eating the same sauce with a different name all his life. Today I made what you would call a Spanish tortilla. We call it simply tortilla de papas (potato tortilla) I added what was left of some pebre (chimichurri, pico de gallo, you name it as you wish) I had left. It was delicious. Do you have any dish or sauce that is named different depending on where you live?