How Do I Save an ASCII Text File?

In the Windoze world, Notepad is a simple editor that saves text strictly in ASCII format. Clean, not embellishments or tags. Sometimes it needs to be that way.
What do I use to save ASCII text on a Mac? Somebody at the Apple store told me the answer is TextEdit, but when I went to save a file just now my choices were rich text (.rtf), HTML, Word format, or XML. No ASCII in the bunch.
So, is there a program on here that does what Notepad does? Is there one out there somewhere...??
--PS

I forgot to mention, that this can also be set in the Preferences of Textedit to be the default setting:
use plain text; add .txt extension when saving.
I think that's all I needed to hear -- I've looked at the preferences for TextEdit and set them the way I think I want them.
Thanks,
--PS

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