mayo vs. ketchup: which is hated more?

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^^^ amazing restaurant in my town with a "no ketchup" policy

the whole right side of that menu is like a stentorian, "and you're going to like it too!" provocation

I don't even eat ketchup on fries.

What's "ex mozzarella"?

ketchup is for french fries, maybe 60% of the time.

and nothing else.

extra!

xp

i dont hate either of these, but i love mayo better so I ABSTAIN

ex mozzarella = cheese that has magically morphed into mushrooms.

xpost. i ABSTAIN aswell.

there is no "cilantro" option, so i will not vote.

ketchup, although i do like it. it just does really get overused by a lot of people. have seen various people putting ketchup on a pizza, for shame. hot sauce on a pizza is fine though. also mayo is better on fries.

I dearly wish abbott would come back to tell us about FRY SAUCE ;_;

Ketchup for fries when no old bay and malt vinegar at hand. Mayo has no use whatsoever.

both taste better with food snob tears

have seen various people putting ketchup on a pizza, for shame.

wait WAHT

fry sauce is really good.

yes i know, djp.

the whole right side of that menu is like a stentorian, "and you're going to like it too!" provocation

this is so otm - the place has an aggro vibe - also some of the best food around, just ridiculously good, but like - there's a whole essay about how ketchup is for spoiled food so if the food's any good you don't need it. however there's also a handwritten sign now that says "Any one can have ketchup for their food, I don't care any more. The Owner" which is the greatest lol tragedy imo

haha

this is so otm - the place has an aggro vibe - also some of the best food around, just ridiculously good, but like - there's a whole essay about how ketchup is for spoiled food so if the food's any good you don't need it. however there's also a handwritten sign now that says "Any one can have ketchup for their food, I don't care any more. The Owner" which is the greatest lol tragedy imo

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, July 18, 2011 4:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I'm imaging a long tracking shot that slowly turns from a setting sun viewed through the window of the shop and slowly settling upon a bakelite table, upon which there is a ketchup bottle knocked onto its side with a pool of red sauce slowly emanating from it, fade to black AND credits

"the horror..."

Mayonnaise is mildly vile but ketchup is for the morally bankrupt.

don't eat mayo, enjoy ketchup

later

ketchup is good on most forms of potatoes and/or eggs

in a world where there were more types easily available and not just corn syrupy sweet heinz, it'd be easier to defend. there was an old malcolm gladwell article on the subject.

both of these are good, not gonna force myself to pick one.

haha the malcolm gladwell article basically concluded that other ketchups just couldn't match up with corn syrupy sweet heinz

The smell of warmed mayo on a hot sandwich is enough to make me gag. I despise mayo, though a little spoonful on tuna fish is ok.

wasn't that more 'couldn't match up' due to the structure of the ketchup market, not 'couldn't match up' because heinz is better tasting

I mean I don't even remember I read it a long time ago

Mayo is the worst thing in my world

nah it was because of the taste - gladwell basically said that the reason heinz is so successful is because it hits four of the tastes at once, sweet salty sour and umami, which other ketchups can't do

oh yeah I forgot, gladwell's an idiot

there's this place we go to sometimes that has fries that come with a variety of house-made fancy mayos and ketchups, it's super great

I'm not a fan of ketchup either but curry flavored ketchup is aight

haha I think we have established that gladwell is an idiot before on ilx

I am going to make some home-made ketchup this week, it's gonna be awesome

The only mayo I truly like is the cheap McDonald's mayo that comes in those little packets. I don't know why. Nayonaise is awesome though.

Ketchup I love...my favorite thing on fries though is yogurt sauce which my favorite hamburger joint in the world serves.

re: heinz ketchup

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387285/Red-faced-Heinz-ketchup-comes-BOTTOM-taste-tests.html

And OMG onion rings with loads of ketchup is superb!

They've just started selling Heinz balsamic vinegar ketchup here. Heinz is actually one of the few big brands I will buy, just the ketchup.

Ketchup belongs with cooked savoury breakfasts and hamburgers, also trashy hot dogs. Some Indian mums of my acquaintance slip a squirt of ketchup into keema peas curry; the vinegar in it concentrates the spicy and the tomato/sugars in it go straight to the onions. Ketchup is also an enhancer of jerk chicken - you brush ketchup onto the chicken when it comes out of the oven and then you put jerk sauce on over that. Neither suck for me; I have ketchup and mayonnaise with my fries/chips; fries and aioli FTW.

Mix Thai sweet chili sauce, mayo and a bit of sriricha sauce, DOES NOT DISAPPOINT.

BTW, MIracle Whip is the most disgusting spread on the planet.

ketchup and mayo are both great, you're all fucking insane.

next on ilx "salt and pepper are so disgusting."

^nope

ketchup maybe for fries but vinegar is better

mayo shouldn't be food

BTW, MIracle Whip is the most disgusting spread on the planet.

Minnesota called, told me to tell you this means war

i have never knowingly consumed miracle whip, btw

Hellmann's mayo is the real shit.

there are few situations where someone is ketchin down that wouldn't be better suited to bbq sauce, anyway.

I like a mix of like 50% ketchup/50% mayo together on my burgers and 70% ketchup/30% mayo to dip my fries into...

fuiud http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

i dont swirl it around like a savage tho

disgusting

what do u put on your burgers if not delicious condiments, aero?

In WGW's defense, actually not disgusting: Belgium called and said 'we do this every day'.

Miracle Whip is how you determine that a kitchen lies on the wrong side of the tracks... at least in Minnesota! ;-)

50% ketchup/50% mayo

Equal parts ketchup/salad cream (not mayo) is Woking's "famous" 'burger sauce'.

fwiw, living in brooklyn means i often have access to rad artesinal ketchups, not the "70% corn syrup, 20% tomato, 10% sadness" ish

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RjqzWk_HYfY/TAahzUGw1PI/AAAAAAAAAwk/hibhxH8pylo/s400/3+Sir+Kensington.jpg

god you all are so horrible

is there any food you do like

I like a mix of like 50% ketchup/50% mayo together on my burgers and 70% ketchup/30% mayo to dip my fries into...

fuiud

― harbl bosses (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 18, 2011 6:17 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ my man

everytime we had oven chips when i was a kid i would be lectured by my parents for covering them in mayo and tomato sauce.

-- mayo is _just vinegar_ you unbelievable wusses
-- ketchup is great
-- both mayo and ketchup are pretty easy to make at home, and even the most rudimentary homemade stuff will surpass heinz/hellmans
-- mixing the two together aka "salsa rosa" is basically the best way to enjoy fries, burgers, hot dogs and a variety of other foods

the phrase "rad artisanal ketchup" makes me want to vote for some john birch society candidate in 2012

patatas bravas are good with mayo + ketchup

i make homemade mayo with just olive oil and egg yolk. italian style. this may well disgust you.

that sounds delicious

i have a hard time dealing with people who rule out entire kinds of food frankly

jim in glasgow otm, that shit is realllly good, good for salad dressing 2

oh a little salt too, and a small amount of lemon juice can make it easier, but you don't really want it to be v lemony.

-- mixing the two together aka "salsa rosa" is basically the best way to enjoy fries, burgers, hot dogs and a variety of other foods

plus a few Scovilles -- not too many! no need to get crazy here

http://www.huyfong.com/images/sriracha.jpg

for the record I place rooster sauce ahead of Tabasco on the Condiment Historical Importance Scale

agreed

tabasco/hot sauce is vile imo

NO

hoos is gonna be so mad

lmfao @ "salsa rosa." it's called "special sauce" or "secret sauce" and burger king is where it belongs

Someday, comeback sauce is going to hit worldwide and Jackson Mississippi is finally gonna be on the map.

tell you what guys, I'm gonna let ya'll in on a little secret

the secret's about the best condiment created in the history of man

that condiment is

NUOC CHAM

what do u put on your burgers if not delicious condiments, aero?

I don't burger it up so much in my veg years I mean I eat veggie burgers & enjoy 'em but it's not, like, as intense as burger-love. My preferred burger at the Coop Ballroom back in the day was 1/3 lb ground beef medium-well ("raw" is a disgusting-ass way to eat meat you buncha savages), cheddar cheese, bacon, alfalfa sprouts, red onions, little bit of chopped lettuce, tabasco, mustard, and - and this is key - a smear of sour cream on the bun. That's right sour cream. This is a heart-stopping meal obv but my metabolism was ridiculously fast when I was in my mid-twenties and I could pretty much eat as much of whatever I wanted to eat w/o gaining a pound until I hit 33-ish.

You can sub guac for the sour cream with delicious results, probably nix the bacon if you do that.

tabasco/hot sauce is vile imo

― dayo, Monday, July 18, 2011

the fuck out of here.

Perhaps it is time for a reprise of:

The Condiments March

Condiments make us smack our lips!
Condiments make us pucker our buns!
Condiments combat the bland,
Like bayonets fixed to foodies' guns.
Roll on, condiments, roll on!

Mustard's as fine as hair on frogs.
Mustard is sharp and spicy and hot.
Mustard can be sour or sweet.
It's everything that a hot dog's not.
Roll on, condiments, roll on!

Ketchup is like a blood-red splash.
Ketchup flows like tomatoey cream
Ketchup delivers a flavorful blow
Beneath which tater tots cringe and scream.
Roll on, condiments, roll on!

Chutney's the compote's apotheosis.
Chutney's a must with a curried lamb.
Chutney's what we want on our plates
When a pork tenderloin needs a body slam.
Roll on, condiments, roll on!

Let the condiments muster in ranks,
From Worcestershire to mayonnaise,
To slather our food and cover our flanks
And win the day 'gainst food malaise.
Roll on, condiments, roll on!

I was gonna say something about delicious hot sauce but I found this in my search for an appropriate image and just thought fuck it that's what it's all about

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steve albini makes his own mayo, read into this what you will

life without onion rings smothered in ketchup is not worth living

would choose the company of a good hot sauce over most humans tbh.

i love both mayo and ketchup, but I put ketchup on less stuff, so....that?

there used to be a burrito place near my school that would have like 5 or 6 different kinds of tabasco sauce and hey, guess what, they all tasted the same i.e. like shit drowned in piss

gimme a good mango habanero or a cholula and I'm square

but like I said

http://vfs.vn/Uploads/News/20122008/201220144247.jpg

shits on all your condiments from a great height

in my experience the hottest thing I ever tasted came from a thai place

ketchup on a burger is awesome richard dawson, only a member of the Young Spartacus League would disagree

eating a burger w/ ketchup as we speak

but I put mayonaise on the shits all the time too

the idea that nuoc cham is some miraculous King of All Heated Sauces is the most lol ever

I love that shit but the most rudimentary family cook in the Yucatan sauces rings around it

dayo, is that really a dish of 201220144247?

funny how vinegar is the base for both these condiments (i'm not making that up right)

wait aero, nuoc cham ain't vegan

there's 48 dead fish in that bowl

...wow!

Very tiny fish, I'm guessing

aero ain't vegan

he uses hot sauces as horcruxes

I haven't been veg forever, I used to eat absolutely any dish you put in front of me unless it contained mayonnaise

piscetarian?

(wouldn't eat anything w/fish in it now tho)

mayonaise are people too

soylent green is people...from County Mayo

that's why he hates mayo, it has that Heston flavor

http://www.nndb.com/people/348/000032252/mayo2-sized.jpg

I Heston mayonnaise, that's for sure

je suis un mayonnais iirfc

Ketchup goes with more prob but mayo can reach sublime heights in the right recipe

Don't use either much tbh

nothing against ketchup (don't mind it with pizza either!) but one time i did present someone with some lovingly made scrambled eggs on toast, chopped chives on it etc, and they just squirted a ton of ketchup over it straight away. i don't know how i'm not supposed to be appalled by that really.

my dad is a ketchup on eggs man & fought in the second world war so I guess that settles that you communists

1/3 lb ground beef medium-well ("raw" is a disgusting-ass way to eat meat you buncha savages)

sigh

how is it that youve been alive for as long as you have while eating so incredibly incorrectly

xp that sentence is like a birthing ground for puns

xp to aero

haha also the fact that you get sprouts on your burger does not specifically disgust me but it reminds me of the ilx thread about sandwiches where someone said he put sprouts on his sandwiches and someone else said "sprouts? did we lose a war?" it was pretty funny

max I wish you would road trip so you could learn that I am actually a kick-ass cook & also have the best-stocked liquor cabinet in all indie rock

if I ever start eating meat again then avoid me around beef because "rare" beef is fucking gross (yes, no matter what the alleged "quality" of the cut, it's repulsive to eat undercooked beef, gtfo w/that shit) however there's pretty much no risk of me returning to meat land & the only my-kitchen shame in that is I used to make a cheddar-broccoli soup w/chicken stock (silver palate cookbook recipe, worth looking up) that made people see glorious visions

at present my potato-pea samosas will cause devoted socialists to embrace the free market if it means they'll get a second crack at my coconut chutney

none of which contain mayonnaise, the condiment that dares to ask the question "what're we gonna do with these eggs before they spoil?"

rare beef is one of the best things in the world btw

so so gross

yeah sorry if you are going to cook your beef beyond medium rare why not just eat a charcoal briquette

have you tried human shit? you don't know til you try if it's actually super-yummy

rare beef doesn't hold a candle to raw fish

i believe that you are maybe a good cook, but it seems like it was probably an accident

also aerosmith is not indie rock

that was xp to horseshoe but rare steak is just the grossest. be like visine get the damn red out

also dayo otm

'indie rock'

Vegetarianism turned s tyler to indie, what could it do to you? Let's be careful out there ppl

aerosmith invented indie rock with our outstanding series of self-released bootlegs, the titles of which I advertise here daily

raw beef is also delicious btw

i'm so effing hungry now

mayo is hated more, although i hate neither

ketchup is part of my pittsburgh heritage tbh

fuck a hunt's

haha mook do you have any pickle pins

raw beef feels so unpleasant, the taste is almost secondar tbh

at this sushi place I used to go to they would also serve raw A5 wagyu beef, if you had a slice of that after some delicious yellowtail or red snapper it was like biting into a meat freezer, totally disgusting

back when i used to eat decent food in restaurants, i would occasionally blurt out 'raw' instead of 'rare'

xp i used to but i don't know where they are!

I should actually say best-stocked liquor cabinet in rock, I bet some of these big players don't have scotch like I keep for guests (nb I never have guests and the scotch just sits there) but I defer to the Boss who probably has cases of Arbeg 1976 lying around

my mom used to work for heinz!

mookie 57 proof

the boss drinks only beer out of cans, bite yr tongue

iirc bruce doesnt drink

I'm gonna break veg edge, buy the best steak I can buy, overcook half of it and hire Ricardo Zarate to just barely sear the other half, then smother that shit with Del Monte ketchup

that's right Del Monte, cry about it you snobs

I'd guess Bruce keeps some on hand for his lawyers though

you just crossed the line

ya but for guests like

that's right Del Monte, cry about it you snobs

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, July 18, 2011 7:40 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how are you not the snob in these food threads you hate mayo!!!

I don't hate mayo for any class reasons if it cost a thousand dollars an ounce it would still taste like ball sweat

snobbery comes in many guises. one is "I know better than you what is good and what is not".

so that's what that lingering aftertaste is

that's the vodka, which tastes like ass sweat

snobbery comes in many guises. one is "I know better than you what is good and what is not".

presumably or maybe not you recognize the double-bind inherent in making this critique right

I mean it's a fuckin food thread maybe keep yr shirt on hoss

de gustibus non disputandem est

melior in that case ut fugies the food threads frater meus

cookin' eat those eggos yum

I don't even get it but I lol'd

at this stage of my career i'm just happy to get a review tbh

"artesinal ketchup" stirs up some deep inner conflict in me. like on the one hand, I think that congress should be devoting all of their energy to figuring out how to expatriate whoever came up with the idea. but on the other hand it probably does taste better than regular ketchup.

I've made my own ketchup from iirc Yamuna Devi's cookbooks and maybe Kurma Dasa's too and it's seriously zero comparison. It's essentially a blended tomato chutney & is great.

as the human race flickers out of existence at least we'll be able to say we died searching for a more authentic ketchup recipe

trying to squeeze 'tomato' into a dystopian pun but the atlantically-challenged wouldn't get it due to mispronunciation and rly why bother

don't worry when the petroleum economy finally collapses and society goes with it the artesinal ketchup people are gonna be the first to get eaten by the roving packs of cannibal street gangs

xpost

They will be eaten with Hellman's mayonaise as a condiment.

good ol cornfed heinz eaters probably taste way better

roving packs of cannibal street gangs make the best ketchup, frankly our company retreats wouldn't be the same without it - we especially love the repurposed little Gerber jars, just adorable

aerosmith company retreats would probably involve fermented cannibal street gangs imo

hmm, I sort of feel like trying to make my own ketchup now, only I know it would take a ton of work and in the end taste the same as any other ketchup

they would involve aerosmith arguing firmly but affectionately with the cannibals about how eating meat was nagl even though he wasn't trying to be preachy, and then getting eaten. we already covered this today i thought.

tru

I'll put tomato sauce into my pasta sauce sometimes, like Suzy said about the keema curry - just a little dash, cos the extra vinegar/sugar adds a depth.

Generally speaking I dont put it on anything else much tho - certainly not hot chips, ugh.

Now, tomato chutney, on the other hand...

there's really nothing to it, just some time

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Homemade-Ketchup-109037

however the best one I know is this one, note that while it's a lot of ingredients there is really nothing to it, it takes half an hour all told.

Velvet Tomato Catsup
From The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking, by Yamuna Devi

1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 tablespoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon garam masala
1/8 teaspoon each ground nutmeg, ginger, and cloves
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper or paprika
Pinch yellow asafetida powder
2 tablespoons brown sugar or jaggery
3 tablespoons water
1 1/2 tablespoons ghee or vegetable oil
1/2 cassia or bay leaf
3/4 cup tomato paste and 1 cup water, or 1 3/4 cups seeded tomato pulp, or puree, or 2 2/3 cups peeled, seeded, diced tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon salt

Combine the ground spices, sweetener, and water in a bowl and whisk well. Heat the ghee or oil in a 2-quart/liter saucepan over moderate heat. Before it is hot, add the cassia or bay leaf and wet spice mixture, and, stirring constantly, fry for about 1 minute. Carefully add the selected tomato product and salt. Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and simmer for about 20 minutes or until thickened to a catsup consistency. Serve at room temperature, or bottle, cover, and refrigerate for up to 2 days.

See I'd see that as more of a chutney in flavour than a sauce.

salad cream (not mayo)

just want to say these are basically the same thing, egg + vinigar + oil, barf

See I'd see that as more of a chutney in flavour than a sauce

it is! but it's a chutney with the texture & flavor of a high-falutin yet bold & eat-plenty-of-itable ketchup!

can't believe aero is trying to pass off a chutney in heinz clothing, smh

鮭汁 iirc

In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup products called EZ Squirt, which eventually included green, purple, pink, orange, teal, and blue.[10] These products were made by adding food coloring to the traditional ketchup. As of January 2006 these products have been discontinued.

I worked with kids who were into the green ketchup idea for maybe one minute. It was so great. They all went "I wanna try the green!" and then they all agreed "It tastes the same but I don't like it!"

that recipe sounds great but damned if i'm gonna make a ketchup that lasts for two days.

it actually would probably last longer but vaisnavas are not into storing food

i don't mean that. i would do it for the right occasion. but then it's a special occasion ketchup and idk what kind of precedent that sets.

call all destroyer I speak from the heart when I say that your last concern when cooking delicious food should be "what kind of precedent does this set?"

ugh ez squirt

almost as bad as I HAVE HAD ALL THE MOUNTAIN DEWS

xp true i did make a quick bbq sauce tonight i guess i'm only like three steps from elaborate indian ketchup

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-on-internet-almost-falls-into-world-of-diy-mus,17013/

oh man I bought somebody's homemade mustard at the farmer's market last week, am basically eating it with a spoon

lol dayo

mustard is my favorite condiment I think

However Local Garda OTM

ketchup and mayo are both great, you're all fucking insane.

next on ilx "salt and pepper are so disgusting."

― LocalGarda, Monday, July 18, 2011 6:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I put ketchup on fries burgers and eggs. That's about it.

See, the eggs thing. Eggs are miraculously delicious, I don't understand the savagery of putting KETCHUP on them.

-- mixing the two together aka "salsa rosa" is basically the best way to enjoy fries, burgers, hot dogs and a variety of other foods

― max, Monday, July 18, 2011 6:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Agree with max on this too except irt hot dogs. Only mustard on dogs for me.

I don't put ketchup on ALL eggs or all the time either but every once in a while it just hits the spot. idk.

pepper is disgusting.

I used to think it was disgusting but I've now come to tolerate it in food. I would never however add it to food. I'm talking about black pepper. Red pepper is another story. I LOVE red pepper flakes.

as a ketchup fanatic, i have *had* ketchup with scrambled eggs

it is fine, but not as good as turning yr scrambled eggs into an omelet with cheese or something even better

pretty sure people who enjoy pepper are worse than the khmer rouge.

j/k who hates pepper.

i was about to go nuts on you

am allergic to eggs and ergo have never intentionally eaten mayonnaise

This is the bomb:

http://www.masterfoods.com.au/Images/Product/300x300-1_Lemon%20Pepper.jpg

DAM you can get egg free stuff, like soyonnaise (its not great, but its bearable)

ketchup is fine. it's not a go-to condiment for me, but i wont cry and fling poop if there's some on my burger or dog.

mayo otoh is satan's cum and i will never countenance it

i can't believe how much of my day i've devoted to thinking about condiments. condiments and megadeth.

Mayodeath.

I would never however add it to food. I'm talking about black pepper.

i think this is the first time i've read a post on an ilx thread that genuinely shocked me.

xps veganaise in the US is an excellent mayo sub, tastes like the Best brand, minus eggs.

*ilx FOOD thread, i mean

the only mayo we our house when i was a kid was homemade stuff - condensed milk, malt vinegar and mustard powder. not good.

*ilx FOOD thread, i mean

LOL was gonna say.

i think i've tried some egg-free mayonnaise and wasn't impressed...? probably not vegannaise.

something i'm interested in maybe trying is 'duckonnaise' #thankinguharvestmoon

A lot of really chic fast food (like the upscale burger thing) and some of the hip "authentic tastes" (like banh mi) completely miss flavour balance. You've either got the gummy fog of a wild mushroom and gruyère bison burger or the unbalanced colision of mild, slightly funky off-cuts of pork with their mild carrot, coriander, and Vietnamese mayonnaise. Even the chilies you get on your banh mi are pointless because they're not offset by any acid or sugar.

What all your fucking hipster food needs is some sugar and some acid. Ketchup does it. Mayonnaise just makes things worse.

Belgians are the most incomprehensible species on Earth, btw. Eating fries and mayo is something I'd only do if the Germans were bearing down on my stupid little village and I wanted to make sure there was no mayonnaise left by the time they rolled in.

lmfao at that onion article

belgians > fields of salmon tbh

Only a Belgian spy would say that.

i'll admit to that statement's propriety but never to belgianness

surely stan and stevie can carry the . . . whatever it is that belgians carry

(ps <3 u guys)

whatever it is that belgians carry

I thought we had established it was rabies.

What is this, a John Cleese sketch? ;P

I would never however add it to food. I'm talking about black pepper.

i think this is the first time i've read a post on an ilx thread that genuinely shocked me.

xps veganaise in the US is an excellent mayo sub, tastes like the Best brand, minus eggs.

― just1n3, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:18 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol - I will add it to stuff I'm cooking or if it's an a recipe but I just don't ever pick up the pepper shaker once the food is done. But even adding it to stuff during cooking is a big step for me so who knows maybe in a couple years the pepper shaker will be my fav thing.

ENBB do you have ground pepper or whole peppercorns? switching to a grinder that grinds whole peppercorns was revolutionary for me imo

Since Pulp Fiction, I've definitely noticed more Brits using mayo on their chips. Also - mayo is essential on pizza. I have a feeling US mayonnaise, like US chocolate, is disgusting compared to European versions judging by the mayo hate in these threads.

Mayo in Belgium with chips was one of my childhood memories. When we moved back to eng/Shields, I got stared at oddly when we went to the chip shop and I asked for a wooden fork and mayonnaise.

This was 1966 or thereabouts. Thesedays, wooden forks are fairly standard offerage.

Also, UK mayo was bad enough, but mother would only buy "Salad Cream" from then on.

mayo on chips/fries = great esp. garlic mayo wise up suckas

mayo on pizza = ugh, maybe if you have some crusts left at the end otherwise wtf

I know. It'll just look like you've, ahem, spread mayo on your pizza.

I have no scorn for either. So, I vote bbq auce.

As perhaps the only remainders a childhood of extremely finicky eating, I only eat either of these if they are mixed with additional ingredients to form some other kind of sauce. Ketchup is probably more disappointing if someone puts it on my sandwich without asking.

pepper is disgusting.

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, July 18, 2011 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I used to think it was disgusting but I've now come to tolerate it in food. I would never however add it to food. I'm talking about black pepper. Red pepper is another story. I LOVE red pepper flakes.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, July 18, 2011 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

As a side note regarding finicky eating, I always ate my french fries with only salt on top. I'd add mountains of salt until they were snowcapped. One day, when I was 13 or 14, I ordered fries somewhere other than McDonald's and they came preseasoned with some other sort of spice on it. I was disappointed, but hungry, so I threw caution to the wind and dove in. It was wonderful! I was completely astounded, like probably literally wide-eyed. I went walking around for like a week telling people about these fries with this amazing spice on them. Further investigation revealed the exotic spice to have been black pepper.

Haha :) The trend here now with neuvo-fries* is to sprinkle 'em with salt and dried rosemary/thyme.

*spelling per Strongo

ohgod the british term "salad cream" makes my brain gag

You should try some!

(not really)

Salad Cream has its uses.

Yes, of course I was talking about dipping yr pizza crusts in mayo - not slathering it all over the pizza, bleurgh!

next time yr talking abt mayo + pizza, please include key word *crusts*! because that was a really gross image for a while

i know people who put ranch dressing on pizza

of course it's still kinda gross to those of us who don't like mayo (except a little bit on a sandwich or burger or tuna salad once in a while)
xp
some pizza places package ranch dressing in little medical-sized cups and call it 'dipping sauce' aaagh
used to be into that when i was younger and ate grosser things tbh

next time yr talking abt mayo + pizza, please include key word *crusts*! because that was a really gross image for a while

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:44 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

What do you call them?

this is what you said! : Also - mayo is essential on pizza.

like you were spreading mayo over the top of your pizza and ugh i have a metal taste in my mouth now

i know people who put ranch dressing on pizza

it seems more humane to hire someone to kill them

yeah, i clarified later. what do you call pizza crusts though rrrobyn?

spanners

i call them pizza crusts! i was just saying that your original statement did not include the word crusts. that is all.

ah i see. sorry, misread your post. i thought you were objecting to the word crusts.

some pizza places package ranch dressing in little medical-sized cups and call it 'dipping sauce' aaagh

my friend and i used to get those carry-out little caesars cheese pizzas because they only cost $5, and we'd dip that shit in ranch to mask, well, everything about it. i remember those times fondly but yeah, it sounds pretty gross now.

i know people who put ranch dressing on pizza

I have the most horrible story about this, but I think ive told it here before?

I have a short memory

oh, then you'll love this thing I just heard about, they're called "virgin eggs"

I have a sinking feeling

your statement intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter xp

dipping everything in ranch sauce is pretty much middle america in a nutshell

local pizza chain has these calzones that come with dipping sauce and I have to say, ranch is pretty tasty that way

I like the Papa John's garlic sauce for crusts, no apology. No thanks to ranch though.

Papa John's garlic sauce is the apex of food engineering

^^^^^

Papa Johns is the only satisfactory major pizza delivery service in the UK AFAIK. This is mostly based on the fact that when you ask for chilis, you get proper juicy jalapenos, not some crappy dried-out shavings off a kebab pepper.

Domino's, on the other hand, is inedible. Unless you have a particular fondness for dry, chewy, flavourless pizza.

really tho, i think that mayo + junk/snack food is not so bad because hey, it all kind of goes together
but
the wacked-out trend of slathering mayo not only on all kinds of "special" maki/sushi but on just about everything makes me never go back to a restaurant

lol my cat ate 3/4 of a container of Papa John's garlic sauce once`

a salmon avocado roll w/ kewpie mayo is like a tomahawk missle aimed at your fat tastebuds

spicy mayo in the maki context is wonderful

then again I am also the guy who uses the entire clump of wasabi in his soy sauce so

I've been told that mixing the wasabi into the soy is a lame move so I just spread it evenly over the top of my sushi

well see for me it's more like "mixing the soy sauce into my wasabi"

Why I Hate Pizza In Ranch Sauce, A Food I Have Never Tasted
by gbx, age 3

A friend of mine returned from summer vacation with a video tape he found on the beach, near NYC. A group of us gathered in his dorm room to see what was on it, because, hey, why the fuck not.

The video opened with an outdoor shot, on a patio somewhere. A woman, rather large, is seated across from the videographer, who appears to have placed the camera on the table. He is not seen, though we do hear his voice. The woman is eating cheese pizza, dousing each bite with ranch dressing. The two are exchanging playful, flirtatious conversation. The woman raises her eyebrows coquettishly as she finishes her slice, leaving the man's last question unanswered.

Hard cut to a motel room, dimly lit by the cold flicker of the television. The camera appears now to be resting on set of drawers, or nightstand. The videographer is now onscreen. He is mechanically fucking the ranch-dipper, while she watches the television, occasionally giving joyless encouragement. Finished, the man rolls off and walks slowly towards the camera. He reaches to turn it off, and the last thing the viewer sees is his penis, wrapped in a condom that is slowly becoming too large.

― gbx, Monday, June 16, 2008 6:35 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

seven days later, the penis crawls out of the nearest television set and ejaculates ranch dressing on everyone who watched the video

it was a really horrible experience

well see for me it's more like "mixing the soy sauce into my wasabi"

― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:04 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh, so you're one of those people

seven days later, the penis crawls out of the nearest television set and ejaculates ranch dressing on everyone who watched the video

dying

i like ketchup

ketchup on burgers and fries = hell yes
ketchup as a meatloaf ingredient = sure
ketchup on eggs = *barf*

sriracha 4 ever

yeah i guess i only like ketchup on burgers and fries...and hot dogs too*

*http://edge-img.datpiff.com/m35af421/Makaveli_Only_God_Can_Judge_Me-front-large.jpg

I used to like ranch dressing. (x-post)

I'm pretty sure that every single person who claims that Fries with Mayonnaise are disgusting has never actually tried eating fries with mayonnaise.

though generally if I go to a place with lots of fancy condiments to go with the fries, I'll choose the dijonnaise

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wow guess I'm gonna start putting mayo on everything

rip