In my favourite pub, they serve a special cheese together with ketchup AND mustard AND jam! (on a plate, along with other things such as bread, some pickled vegetables etc.)
Believe it or not, it can be delicious!
Of course, the three “sauces” are not mixed together (that would be probably quite gross) – so you can play around trying different combinations of taste(s) or not. Some people seem quite afraid to experiment, some (like me) know better…
I had breakfast with my cat on my lap this morning… She was quiet until I opened the yoghurt; then she tried to intercept every spoonful. Messy beast. She had the last spoonful anyway. Love her.
There’s a difference – ‘Upper Class’ transcends ‘First Class’
‘Royalty’ gets privileges denied to the simply-rich and all sorts of allowances are made! In other words – ‘First Class’ is what money can buy, ‘Upper Class’ you need to be born into!
My parents were socialists – you can tell. I have spent my life fighting the class system of any kind. I don’t believe in ‘Privilege – things need to be earned not inherited IMHO.
I WAS only joking by including a true history! While my parents were full members of the Coventry Labour Party, I grew to dislike any class-oriented ‘hate’-activities. They often do more harm than any good they do. Peaceful protest is more my line. Although I often get into trouble for voicing the truth in the wrong way, wrong place, wrong time etc as I have poor distinction of social niceties (My heritage?) Spending time here is teaching me a lot about mixing with people and I learn something new every day about being ‘nice’ or at least – less offensive! So thanks all for the education…
Thanks to Yehuda I learnt that:
- catsup is the same thing as ketchup and not cat food as I thought first
- catsup/ketchup is non-newtonian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
HaHa – just did the same thing! My wife tells me off for not ‘reading aloud’ in my head so I miss many word-based jokes
If I did read the strip aloud, the ‘sound’ of ‘catchup’ would have given it away along with the colour.
NB: that dressing is common in the UK – esp. in MacDonalds!
I see the green of some salad in there too but has the meat been burnt? – the black stuff looks disgusting!
I’m trying to lose a few kilograms before summer, so I ride more and eat less, which means I’m hungry of course.
Now it’s 8:40 and because I connected to the site (instead of working) I will spend the rest of this morning dreaming of a plate of fries with ketchup and mustard.
I dunno…I don’t like coffee and would have trouble getting even one cup down the hatch. Three second cups of tea, and I’d probably be doing the Hustle, so that much coffee would have to produce a jitterbug, methinks.
True about cats testing food – when our chicken from the fridge is near it’s use-by date, we offer some to Jakey (My Avatar) who is mad about chicken. If he walks away from it we discard the rest without trying it. If Jakey won’t eat chicken it really must be ‘off’!
I was just reading the latest incarnation of http://www.copenhagenize.com/ and there is an interesting item there about how the bike is being used in Japan to help in recovery….
Also – search ‘Rye bread motor’ in that page – interesting.
What a cool site! The photos of bikes used in Japan in the aftermath of the quake brings to mind how important the bicycle is in many third world countries where it may be the ONLY long range transpo available with which to traverse hostile terrain. with a heavy load.
My first bike was a Japanese Napoli model…I loved that bike and would love to have another just like it. So much more utilitarian than the avearage bicycle here in the states; it was designed to be used as transport, not fun (but the fun it afforded me was awesome, too).
Don’t know why, but Jack In The Box seems to Hate Bicyclists! Won’t serve me in the drive thru after the lobby closes… WTH! My cash is just as green as some motorists. Too bad our local Burgerville doesn’t have a drive-thru.
Thats weird. I don’t normally get fast food that late, but from what I’ve heard over here (New Zealand) after the ‘lobby’ (resturant?) closes they’ll even serve pedestrians in the drive through.
That’s standard policy at almost all the big fast food chains. They claim that if you’re hurt they’d be culpable; but that’s just stupid because our vehicles are permitted on the street and there is no greater risk of injury to a cyclist than to a motorcyclist in a drive thru line.
@SDMSS: They may not be culpable, but if an accident occurs on their property, they’d be sued. Why? Deep pockets. Seeking money is at least as important as seeking justice in such matters.
I was using the term culpable from a civil law perspective. And how is an injury in a drive thru lane more likely for a cyclist than for a motorcyclist, or a pedestrian walking across the parking lot on their way to the restaurant’s front door? It isn’t. It’s a misguided and spacious policy intended to ban anything that makes them uncomfortable without thinking it through very well. Cyclist wear helmets, ergo cycling is dangerous, ergo ban bicycles from out drive thru line.
@SDMSS: You raise good points about relative risks. My notion of culpability is described on Wikipedia:
“From a legal perspective, culpability describes the degree of one’s blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offense. Except for strict liability crimes, the type and severity of punishment often follow the degree of culpability.” <http://preview.tinyurl.com/6z5sl68>
Also, I’d bet that the “no bicycles in the drive-thru” rule was a direct result of a lawsuit, just like every warning sticker on ladders for sale at the hardware store.
I’m using the same concept of culpability, but applying it to civil law. The point I’m making is, YES, I’m perfectly aware that it’s about getting sued.
They are liable even without negligence. The policy is probably dictated by their insurance company.
I suspect the probability of an injury in the drive-thru for a cyclist is much higher than for a motorcyclist, because too many cyclists use inadequate lighting, whereas motorcycles typically come equipped with sufficient lighting from the factory. Counterintuitively, in areas with lots of ambient light, such as drive-thrus (at night) cyclists need much brighter lights to be readily visible to other vehicles than in situations in which ambient light is low. This is especially true when other drivers might distracted by other tasks, such as looking for correct change in the drive-thru. Coin cell blinkies, which are common around here for the minority of riders that actually use lights, do not offer sufficient light to be useful in such situations (or any urban situation, really).
Walgreens GLADLY gives us our Rx at the drive-thru window. They seem to enjoy it when we ride through. Maybe ’cause we don’t have music blaring, we’re not talking on the cell phone, and we’re in good spirits. It’s not a chore like going by car.
WV Tenor, don’t let corporate know, because it is a strict violation of franchise police for all the big grease shillers. I hear the KFC in my neighborhood will sell to cyclists in the drive-through, but if corporate found out I’m sure they’d put a stop to it.
I tried using my bank’s drive-through on my bike for the first time to make a deposit Tuesday. The lady behind the window seemed somewhat surprised, but was quite nice and gave me the same cheerful responses I get when use the drive-through in a car or when I walk inside. The tellers already are accustomed to seeing me park my bike outside when I walk in, and some ask me if I had a nice ride. One seemed rather concerned when I rode on wet or cold days. It’s a very friendly bank in general. They even use bicycles as part of their corporate image and advertising; the main bank downtown has a bike on display in the lobby.
@SDMSS: It’s also standard on the 99 cent burgers at Mickey D’s and Wendy’s. Maybe the point is that Yehuda’s blending the two and not just putting them on his burger.
Of course, the really important question is whether the mustard is plain jane yellow or Stadium Mustard <http://www.stadiummustard.com/>. The Indians’ Opening Day is April 1st, at home (for once), against the Chi White Sox.
More importantly, the Giants’ Opening Day is also April 1st, in Los Angeles, against the dreaded Dodgers.
Marmite and Vegemite are both concentrated yeast residues with salt and naturally occurring vit. B12. Vegemite is the Australian variant, and less salty than Marmite; not widely on sale in the UK until the “Neigbours” soap hit UK TV screens so people got to hear of it. (The same time that people stopped calling University “varsity” and started calling it “uni” instead.) And of course, both are brilliant with peanut butter….. Mind you, sugar free peanut butter is so much more culinarily versatile than the stuff with sugar. Can you get sugar-free peanut butter in the States?
Any of the “natural” brands available here in the States are roasted peanuts only. My favorite is the Smucker’s Chunky. I add a little sea salt, sometimes some Chipotle Tabasco, personal preference.
@Alan: Sugar-free PB? Absolutely! It’s been around for years, typically as “natural,” non-hydrogenated PB. The only one I can get locally is Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter.
My boyfriend is a Kiwi; we can find Marmite at some shops here, but not Vegemite, which he prefers. I don’t care for either of them, and I was brought up in England (and Japan, but I don’t like sushi, either…lol).
In the UK, Marmite is advertised as a ‘love /hate’ product. To the max!
So if you have even a hint of the smell about you, a ‘hater’ would be sick to sniff it!
Which explains my ticking clock – expecting a deluge of pro/con posts.
I seem to have mostly netted Marmite lover it seems?
@Alan et al. My favorite PB is Adams Natural Chunky. No sugar and you can get it without salt if that’s your thing. It has no emulsifying agents so it separates. Other than that, in many parts of the US it’s pretty easy to find fresh ground PB sold by the pound.
Is the “Follow” feature in the posting window new, or did I just get a decent nights sleep for once? (“Follow” is in the lower-left corner of the window, opposite the Cancel & Post buttons.)
It sent an e-mail containing a reply to a post I made. It also included a link back to the Web page. You can also reply via e-mail, but I don’t know if the reply will post to the Web page.
I’ve been using the “Follow” feature for months. Even on days that I don’t post any real comments, I post a “dummy” comment (with a single character in it, since the software doesn’t allow completely empty comments to be posted) just to turn on the Follow feature, then delete the dummy comment immediately afterward. If I do this early in the morning, I can follow that day’s comments all day through email. Even if someone posts a new comment to an old strip months later, I still get an email from it.
Thans Widsmith, I now have to work out how to use it in my particular situation. I have a number of ‘systems’ but only one has email access to my email history. So I must use that one to get email. The ‘games system’ (I ran out of disk space on the email system so moved most of the games to a bigger partition – I still can’t believe that 80Gb was too small!) has Outlook but I don’t remember where the History data is stored or how to make the ‘new’ outlook use it
To make it worse, I often use my iPad to browse and post here while watching TV. No way that has accesss to an Outlook file on a desktop is there? I can manually look at my inbox on my email server (Virginmedia) but it doesn’t have any way to notify me of incoming mail!
Wheee! Ketchup and mustard, fine-ketchup and tahini even better, esp. on fries. Esp. on sweet potato fries.
Bean sandwiches show up in stories of US rural life around 1900; I’ve tried them; they’re good!
Had a cat that ate chocolate bars; she lived to be eighteen, about 50% longer than typical cat lifespan. ‘Course she also ate lizards, and just about anything else that was smaller than her head. Never weighed more than seven pounds either. Once beat up a German shepherd. It was the chocolate, no doubt!
I am the epitome of a “fussy eater”. I like peanut butter. I like jelly. The idea of the two together on a sandwich turns my stomach. When I could eat burgers (veggie only), I chose lettuce, cheese, and onions…no condiments. Ick.
Not that the U.S. is the gastronomical center of the Universe, but some of the above descriptions of food from you Brits are utterly revolting. To each their own I suppose. I’m originally from Spain and I have been known to eat fried parakeet on a stick for lunch so I understand how taste varies from place to place. My oversear(wife) mixes mayo, mustard, ketchup, relish(1000 island dressing) and dips her burgers in it. I usually have to leave the room–gross.
I love smoked herring with raw onion so I don’t have a right to criticize anybody.
My colleagues are happy that I have a bike which allows me to lunch somewhere far from the office.
Off-subject, sorry. Just had to post…
My wife just showed me a photo from the ‘Reader’s Digest’ of the Ballroom of the ‘Lee Plaza’ in Detroit as it is today – one can still get a feel of the grandeur it once enjoyed. Sad to see it looking like the image from Fukushima that I thought it was at first!
No one’s mentioned sloppy joes yet! The version we have is made with ketchup (I like to add a dash of fruity brown sauce and a dash of chilli kecthup – possibly betrays my UK origins) and French’s mustard but this is simply my American wife’s family’s version – I understand there are many variants on the basic sloppy joe concept. And we like the same ketchup and Fench’s mustard combination on sausages-inna-bun and on burgers-inna-bun. With spring firmly arrived here in Wales perhaps the bbq might have an airing before too long…
I think it’s his mixing of them that disturbs her, though I’m not sure why. The taste is the same whether they’re added together or separately, so mixing them shouldn’t make any difference, except that it seems unneccesary. I usually put the mustard on one side of the patty and the ketchup on the other, but I suppose that mixing them on the same side would taste the same.
First!
Allows me to get my Nth-comment in earlier
Thistle’s hand seems to be shaking in reaction to what she just observed?
No, she’s pointing downstairs at where Yehuda is dining…this strip made me laugh out loud, it’s so much like where I work.
Maybe I realised that but I thought the comment was fun anyway!
first of the cat-tards.
@ nahh you’re a cat-tard
Rick, can we have the latest comments at the top instead?
Well “cat-tard” is just so wrong.
Agreed. Also, everyone knows mayo-tard is where its at.
In the style of Vector from Despicable Me: Oh YEAH! I had that with my fries a couple of times on my recent skiing trip to France… very yummy.
mayo-racha is king of them all.
In my favourite pub, they serve a special cheese together with ketchup AND mustard AND jam! (on a plate, along with other things such as bread, some pickled vegetables etc.)
Believe it or not, it can be delicious!
Of course, the three “sauces” are not mixed together (that would be probably quite gross) – so you can play around trying different combinations of taste(s) or not. Some people seem quite afraid to experiment, some (like me) know better…
Actually, mustard + ketchup = barbecue sauce
Oh nonono, barbecue sauce is a whole other world!
Perhaps, but mixing the two in a 1:1 mixture comes pretty close.
Fenders!!!! Good To See Ya!
I had breakfast with my cat on my lap this morning… She was quiet until I opened the yoghurt; then she tried to intercept every spoonful. Messy beast. She had the last spoonful anyway. Love her.
That promts me to say what I have been fighting all morning – ‘Cat-tard’ sounds like ‘Cat-Turd’ to me – Ewww!
Litterbox McNuggets ?
@Greg: Boo!
Litterbox cookies?
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/index.php?option=com_resource&controller=article&category_id=109&article=17836
*kitty scritches for Fenders* My cat, Tetley, would *so* turn up her nose at anything like that. How did I get such a diva?
Guess I’d turn my nose up, too. Mustard is ucky in a bucket.
I prefer to call a spade a spade and refer to it as Upper Class, rather than first class.
There’s a difference – ‘Upper Class’ transcends ‘First Class’
‘Royalty’ gets privileges denied to the simply-rich and all sorts of allowances are made! In other words – ‘First Class’ is what money can buy, ‘Upper Class’ you need to be born into!
My parents were socialists – you can tell. I have spent my life fighting the class system of any kind. I don’t believe in ‘Privilege – things need to be earned not inherited IMHO.
But…but…it is *good* to be the King.
Wonder if I’m related to Joe.
I too detest class or caste systems of any kind. But you don’t have to stoop to Socialism to do away with class-ism. Ayn Rand would have agreed.
I WAS only joking by including a true history! While my parents were full members of the Coventry Labour Party, I grew to dislike any class-oriented ‘hate’-activities. They often do more harm than any good they do. Peaceful protest is more my line. Although I often get into trouble for voicing the truth in the wrong way, wrong place, wrong time etc as I have poor distinction of social niceties (My heritage?) Spending time here is teaching me a lot about mixing with people and I learn something new every day about being ‘nice’ or at least – less offensive! So thanks all for the education…
Ayn Rand was an astounding fascist… which is much worse than a classist, IMHO.
Thistle doesn’t ride enough… When you’re hungry, anything will do.
Thanks to Yehuda I learnt that:
- catsup is the same thing as ketchup and not cat food as I thought first
- catsup/ketchup is non-newtonian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
HaHa – just did the same thing! My wife tells me off for not ‘reading aloud’ in my head so I miss many word-based jokes
If I did read the strip aloud, the ‘sound’ of ‘catchup’ would have given it away along with the colour.
NB: that dressing is common in the UK – esp. in MacDonalds!
I see the green of some salad in there too but has the meat been burnt? – the black stuff looks disgusting!
I’m trying to lose a few kilograms before summer, so I ride more and eat less, which means I’m hungry of course.
Now it’s 8:40 and because I connected to the site (instead of working) I will spend the rest of this morning dreaming of a plate of fries with ketchup and mustard.
Duh.
Ketchup is a non-newtonian fluid?
Cool! Learnt something interesting before my second coffee! Thanks!
Ketchup is a non-newtonian fluid?
Cool! Learnt something interesting before my second coffee! Thanks!
Aw, crap – stupid machine!
After three second cups of coffee, you’re gonna jitter for hours.
Is that ‘three second cups of coffee’ equal to 6 coffees Tee?
If so – I imgine anybody would have the jitters!
I dunno…I don’t like coffee and would have trouble getting even one cup down the hatch. Three second cups of tea, and I’d probably be doing the Hustle, so that much coffee would have to produce a jitterbug, methinks.
Simply delete the extra posts
@ Mat
Yep but I still don’t know whether apples are newtonian fruits or not.
@JX75: Only if they hit you on the head.
Right… If they fall into water they become archimedian.
OT… did my 3rd Century CE yesterday (Cycling Everywhere)… Ow, My legs hurt.
http://connect.garmin.com/player/74784056
Felt like I was going into a headwind the whole way (but it only rained for the last 19 miles)
Time:09:21:30
Distance:100.77 mi
Elevation Gain:11,353 ft
Calories: 6,828 C
Elapsed Time:11:53:45
Avg Speed:10.8 mph
Avg Moving Speed:11.2 mph
Max Speed: 33.2 mph
Well done, you!
That’s what you get for riding a century in a loaded Bakfeits!
Impressive climbing.
But did you post it on the BikeJournal Century Challenge Thread?
No… don’t know anything about it
http://www.bikejournal.com/thread.asp?ThreadID={641422C6-1AAD-4DDD-B327-B97F1D89A01F}
2011 Century of the Month Challenge. Goal of 6 or more centuries during the calender year, beyond the http://www.BikeJournal.com signup.
Shoot! Thats a lot of climb/descend you got goin there. But, that may jest be me – I live in fairly-flat Toronto. Anywho, nice!
He gets it in his beard, too.
Love the billowing clouds of smoke!
My father’s description of food like that was “burnt to perfection.”
Thanks for that Kevin – I assumed that was just ‘background fill’
You’re welcome!
Looks like extra bikes hanging on the celing!
I’m thinking those are tires hanging on the wall / ceiling behind Yehuda there. He’s down in the shop / storage area, right?
sooooo is it a ketchup or cat food? - did U know that cat food can be way better than that for human creatures? Cats can smell if there is “sth fishy”
ok, already saw a first box – its ketchup allright;)
True about cats testing food – when our chicken from the fridge is near it’s use-by date, we offer some to Jakey (My Avatar) who is mad about chicken. If he walks away from it we discard the rest without trying it. If Jakey won’t eat chicken it really must be ‘off’!
I was just reading the latest incarnation of http://www.copenhagenize.com/ and there is an interesting item there about how the bike is being used in Japan to help in recovery….
Also – search ‘Rye bread motor’ in that page – interesting.
What a cool site! The photos of bikes used in Japan in the aftermath of the quake brings to mind how important the bicycle is in many third world countries where it may be the ONLY long range transpo available with which to traverse hostile terrain. with a heavy load.
My first bike was a Japanese Napoli model…I loved that bike and would love to have another just like it. So much more utilitarian than the avearage bicycle here in the states; it was designed to be used as transport, not fun (but the fun it afforded me was awesome, too).
“0100 km/h: Unlikely” LOL
Don’t know why, but Jack In The Box seems to Hate Bicyclists! Won’t serve me in the drive thru after the lobby closes… WTH! My cash is just as green as some motorists. Too bad our local Burgerville doesn’t have a drive-thru.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/success-as-burgeville-allows-bikes-in-drive-thru.php
A bike has no registration-plate to identify it – maybe they can’t ‘serve’ you unless the can identify you if you ride-off without paying?
They don’t hand the food out the window until after they get paid… And what would really stop a motorist from doing that w/removed or stolen plates.
Thats weird. I don’t normally get fast food that late, but from what I’ve heard over here (New Zealand) after the ‘lobby’ (resturant?) closes they’ll even serve pedestrians in the drive through.
That’s standard policy at almost all the big fast food chains. They claim that if you’re hurt they’d be culpable; but that’s just stupid because our vehicles are permitted on the street and there is no greater risk of injury to a cyclist than to a motorcyclist in a drive thru line.
@SDMSS: They may not be culpable, but if an accident occurs on their property, they’d be sued. Why? Deep pockets. Seeking money is at least as important as seeking justice in such matters.
I was using the term culpable from a civil law perspective. And how is an injury in a drive thru lane more likely for a cyclist than for a motorcyclist, or a pedestrian walking across the parking lot on their way to the restaurant’s front door? It isn’t. It’s a misguided and spacious policy intended to ban anything that makes them uncomfortable without thinking it through very well. Cyclist wear helmets, ergo cycling is dangerous, ergo ban bicycles from out drive thru line.
@SDMSS: You raise good points about relative risks. My notion of culpability is described on Wikipedia:
“From a legal perspective, culpability describes the degree of one’s blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offense. Except for strict liability crimes, the type and severity of punishment often follow the degree of culpability.” <http://preview.tinyurl.com/6z5sl68>
Also, I’d bet that the “no bicycles in the drive-thru” rule was a direct result of a lawsuit, just like every warning sticker on ladders for sale at the hardware store.
I’m using the same concept of culpability, but applying it to civil law. The point I’m making is, YES, I’m perfectly aware that it’s about getting sued.
They are liable even without negligence. The policy is probably dictated by their insurance company.
I suspect the probability of an injury in the drive-thru for a cyclist is much higher than for a motorcyclist, because too many cyclists use inadequate lighting, whereas motorcycles typically come equipped with sufficient lighting from the factory. Counterintuitively, in areas with lots of ambient light, such as drive-thrus (at night) cyclists need much brighter lights to be readily visible to other vehicles than in situations in which ambient light is low. This is especially true when other drivers might distracted by other tasks, such as looking for correct change in the drive-thru. Coin cell blinkies, which are common around here for the minority of riders that actually use lights, do not offer sufficient light to be useful in such situations (or any urban situation, really).
Walgreens GLADLY gives us our Rx at the drive-thru window. They seem to enjoy it when we ride through. Maybe ’cause we don’t have music blaring, we’re not talking on the cell phone, and we’re in good spirits. It’s not a chore like going by car.
Yeah, the motorists seem to dislike my trips to the local drive through ATM as well; don’t know why, I get in and out faster than most cars.
@Dale in Indy: Just standard cager irritation with bicycles.
Charleston has a reputation as a bike-unfriendly city, but I have never had any trouble getting served at a drive-through on my bike.
Maybe because those serving weren’t actually driving at the time?
WV Tenor, don’t let corporate know, because it is a strict violation of franchise police for all the big grease shillers. I hear the KFC in my neighborhood will sell to cyclists in the drive-through, but if corporate found out I’m sure they’d put a stop to it.
I tried using my bank’s drive-through on my bike for the first time to make a deposit Tuesday. The lady behind the window seemed somewhat surprised, but was quite nice and gave me the same cheerful responses I get when use the drive-through in a car or when I walk inside. The tellers already are accustomed to seeing me park my bike outside when I walk in, and some ask me if I had a nice ride. One seemed rather concerned when I rode on wet or cold days. It’s a very friendly bank in general. They even use bicycles as part of their corporate image and advertising; the main bank downtown has a bike on display in the lobby.
I’ll admit that mustard and ketchup together is not my favorite combination, but isn’t that a fairly standard mix, especially on hot dogs?
http://bit.ly/dE9Z4n
It seems kind of strange that it is portrayed here as something so disgusting and abnormal that it would cause Thistle to gag and flee.
That is the mess stuck in his beard? (Ewww!)
@SDMSS: It’s also standard on the 99 cent burgers at Mickey D’s and Wendy’s. Maybe the point is that Yehuda’s blending the two and not just putting them on his burger.
Of course, the really important question is whether the mustard is plain jane yellow or Stadium Mustard <http://www.stadiummustard.com/>. The Indians’ Opening Day is April 1st, at home (for once), against the Chi White Sox.
More importantly, the Giants’ Opening Day is also April 1st, in Los Angeles, against the dreaded Dodgers.
Enjoy the season (cycling and baseball)!
But Yehuda is clearly putting mustard and ketchup on a hamburger with lettuce. It doesn’t make any sense.
Putting them individually on a hamburger or hot dog seems quite normal to me. Blending them is the odd thing here.
Mustard only is the “norm” for Chicago style or “garden” dogs.
In some regions, ketchup is nvever found on a fully-dressed hot dog. I refer you to reseach by Cecil Adams, author of The Straight Dope:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/679/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog
What’s on my mind – sandwich with peanut butter, pickle [in the British sense - Pan-Yan was best , Branston not really so good] and cheese…
Funny how peanut butter goes so well with so many things. I think the only thing that really gustatorially clashes with it is marmalade…
What about ‘Marmite’? (Tick, tick, tick
About as yummy (not) as vegemite.
Aren’t marmite and vegemite the same thing?
Marmite and Vegemite are both concentrated yeast residues with salt and naturally occurring vit. B12. Vegemite is the Australian variant, and less salty than Marmite; not widely on sale in the UK until the “Neigbours” soap hit UK TV screens so people got to hear of it. (The same time that people stopped calling University “varsity” and started calling it “uni” instead.) And of course, both are brilliant with peanut butter….. Mind you, sugar free peanut butter is so much more culinarily versatile than the stuff with sugar. Can you get sugar-free peanut butter in the States?
Any of the “natural” brands available here in the States are roasted peanuts only. My favorite is the Smucker’s Chunky. I add a little sea salt, sometimes some Chipotle Tabasco, personal preference.
@Alan: Sugar-free PB? Absolutely! It’s been around for years, typically as “natural,” non-hydrogenated PB. The only one I can get locally is Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter.
My boyfriend is a Kiwi; we can find Marmite at some shops here, but not Vegemite, which he prefers. I don’t care for either of them, and I was brought up in England (and Japan, but I don’t like sushi, either…lol).
They are both disgusting. de gustibus non est disputandum.
In the UK, Marmite is advertised as a ‘love /hate’ product. To the max!
So if you have even a hint of the smell about you, a ‘hater’ would be sick to sniff it!
Which explains my ticking clock – expecting a deluge of pro/con posts.
I seem to have mostly netted Marmite lover it seems?
My favourite combo in a sandwich of thick white bread is Marmite and mayo … with a glass of milk.
@Alan et al. My favorite PB is Adams Natural Chunky. No sugar and you can get it without salt if that’s your thing. It has no emulsifying agents so it separates. Other than that, in many parts of the US it’s pretty easy to find fresh ground PB sold by the pound.
Is not custard also non-Newtonian?
@Johnboy: Only if it’s runny.
No, not custard – just deliciously gloopy….
but custard powder with jjust enough milk or water to turn it into a thick slurry certainly is. (Google “corn flour” with “walking on water”.)
Is the “Follow” feature in the posting window new, or did I just get a decent nights sleep for once? (“Follow” is in the lower-left corner of the window, opposite the Cancel & Post buttons.)
I had never noticed it before.
Just got an e-mail using the “Follow” feature. This will certainly add some more fuel to the flame wars. =8^0
So what does it do?
It sent an e-mail containing a reply to a post I made. It also included a link back to the Web page. You can also reply via e-mail, but I don’t know if the reply will post to the Web page.
I’ve been using the “Follow” feature for months. Even on days that I don’t post any real comments, I post a “dummy” comment (with a single character in it, since the software doesn’t allow completely empty comments to be posted) just to turn on the Follow feature, then delete the dummy comment immediately afterward. If I do this early in the morning, I can follow that day’s comments all day through email. Even if someone posts a new comment to an old strip months later, I still get an email from it.
Well, aren’t you the sneaky one! I had to post something so I could try out this follow feature.
Thans Widsmith, I now have to work out how to use it in my particular situation. I have a number of ‘systems’ but only one has email access to my email history. So I must use that one to get email. The ‘games system’ (I ran out of disk space on the email system so moved most of the games to a bigger partition – I still can’t believe that 80Gb was too small!) has Outlook but I don’t remember where the History data is stored or how to make the ‘new’ outlook use it
To make it worse, I often use my iPad to browse and post here while watching TV. No way that has accesss to an Outlook file on a desktop is there? I can manually look at my inbox on my email server (Virginmedia) but it doesn’t have any way to notify me of incoming mail!
when I was a kid my dad and I used to eat bean dip sandwiches
Wheee! Ketchup and mustard, fine-ketchup and tahini even better, esp. on fries. Esp. on sweet potato fries.
Bean sandwiches show up in stories of US rural life around 1900; I’ve tried them; they’re good!
Had a cat that ate chocolate bars; she lived to be eighteen, about 50% longer than typical cat lifespan. ‘Course she also ate lizards, and just about anything else that was smaller than her head. Never weighed more than seven pounds either. Once beat up a German shepherd. It was the chocolate, no doubt!
If Yehuda makes a mess downstairs that attracts mice, then Fenders will dine! Although even a mouse might turn up her nose and whiskers at Must-Up.
Mustard and Ketchup on a hamburger. What’s not to like? Age old condiments.
I am the epitome of a “fussy eater”. I like peanut butter. I like jelly. The idea of the two together on a sandwich turns my stomach. When I could eat burgers (veggie only), I chose lettuce, cheese, and onions…no condiments. Ick.
Not that the U.S. is the gastronomical center of the Universe, but some of the above descriptions of food from you Brits are utterly revolting. To each their own I suppose. I’m originally from Spain and I have been known to eat fried parakeet on a stick for lunch so I understand how taste varies from place to place. My oversear(wife) mixes mayo, mustard, ketchup, relish(1000 island dressing) and dips her burgers in it. I usually have to leave the room–gross.
@ Perrico Delgado
I love smoked herring with raw onion so I don’t have a right to criticize anybody.
My colleagues are happy that I have a bike which allows me to lunch somewhere far from the office.
Off-subject, sorry. Just had to post…
My wife just showed me a photo from the ‘Reader’s Digest’ of the Ballroom of the ‘Lee Plaza’ in Detroit as it is today – one can still get a feel of the grandeur it once enjoyed. Sad to see it looking like the image from Fukushima that I thought it was at first!
No one’s mentioned sloppy joes yet! The version we have is made with ketchup (I like to add a dash of fruity brown sauce and a dash of chilli kecthup – possibly betrays my UK origins) and French’s mustard but this is simply my American wife’s family’s version – I understand there are many variants on the basic sloppy joe concept. And we like the same ketchup and Fench’s mustard combination on sausages-inna-bun and on burgers-inna-bun. With spring firmly arrived here in Wales perhaps the bbq might have an airing before too long…
I think Thistle was o-fender-ed because she took cat-tard too litter-alley!
I think Thistle was o-fender-ed because she took cat-tard too litter-alley!
I think Thistle was o-fender-ed because she took cat-tard too litter-alley!
I’m mostly confused that this seems to be gross to her. Nearly everyone I know puts both mustard and ketchup on their burgers. Am I missing something?
I think it’s his mixing of them that disturbs her, though I’m not sure why. The taste is the same whether they’re added together or separately, so mixing them shouldn’t make any difference, except that it seems unneccesary. I usually put the mustard on one side of the patty and the ketchup on the other, but I suppose that mixing them on the same side would taste the same.