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Is this a British thing but why do you only get offered mint sauce with sheep, mustard with pig and horse radish with cow?

As a non meat eater (you may have guessed) I love all these condiments but our works canteen only provide them along with the relevant slabs of flesh, at which time I bung them on whatever I am eating at the time? Whereas the have a permenant supply of red stuff and brown stuff everyday.

I want to fight for the right to have horse radish, mustard and mint sauce accepted as universal condiments, anyone with me?

CHawke

go for it!
Personally, I like lemon on everything. Just about. I'm not kidding. But would you call that a condiment or a flavouring (or some other thing that I don't know the word for)?

Sign me up - condiments for all! I don't see why we should be dictated to by this idea of what 'goes' with what (so speaks somebody whose wife disapproves of his sartorial colour selections).

This seems to be related to the idea that you 'should' have certain wines with certain foods - white with fish, red with meat, and so on. I'm sure that experts can give logical explanations of why some flavours complement others, but in my view food and drink is out there to be enjoyed, and we shouldn't be dictated to by the tastes of others.

So if you are starting a campaign for the liberation of condiments I'll come along for the ride!

BTW, I looked up 'condiment' and my dictionary calls it a seasoning. I'm not clear how that differs from flavouring, or where lemon comes in to the scheme of things, but that's the point - what matters is what you like, not the conventions.

I guess the lemon reference means the slice of lemon you get with fish but not any other meal, again, a bit of sharpness can pep up loads of things.

I agree on the wine thing as well, although usually I neck a bottle or so before a meal so what i (and occasionally we) drink with the meal is accademic

CHawke

I'm not sure why I like lemon on everything, but I really do miss it when I'm somewhere where the humanoid beings supervising my eating find my strange taste for lemon unbearable.

And sign me up on the "condiment liberation front" *doesn't sound great when said rapidly* *slaps herself* *that's for your nasty little mind*

Condiments ROCK esp for veggie / vegans (personally, no offence to meat eaters or otherwise) which i'm the the middle, Pepper being my favourite only the craked variatie obviously! Soya sause being the queen knees for all thoese tofu dishes.

Horseradish well, what can i say!

Mango chuckny on everything even toast and cabbage!

Condiments more condiments,i feel excited other like minded beings ,maybe there is time for a fan club!!! (HAHAHaLOL)
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I never know where I'll run into these illuminating cultural differences, it seems. This is a social problem which does not exist in the New World. The waiters might bring you the typical condiments for your meal, but you can always request others. For instance, I've eaten fries with people, and seen (and in some instances used) ketchup, mustard, barbeque sauce, Tabasco sauce, ranch dressing, and steak sauce. Not all at the same time, however.

However, if you want to gross out all of your dining partners, I recommend the French custom of eating them with vinegar and mayonnaise.

...I know someone who orders chips (fries) ordered with Ice Cream and then dunks chips into ice cream.


ChawkE

My Dad used mop up ice cream with bread and marge.I would sometimes rather eat the condiments than the actual meal.except horse radish ,makes me think of red vegatables with hooves and even thinking of hooves turns my stomach...THE IMPOSTER

Many years back when I was in the lower sixth form (look, I know how that sounds, but that's what it was called. It corresponds to the 11th grade, I think, for our American friends, year 11 to up-to-date British types - I was about 16 for anybody else) we were allowed to visit the local chippie at lunchtime. I used to buy a bag of chips (with salt and vinegar, of course) and take them back to Sivori's ice cream van which parked outside school.

And you know what's coming - I'd buy an ice cream and dunk my chips in it. All my friends thought I was a bit weird (they still do, truth be told) - I'm delighted to learn that there are others out there. I use to really enjoy it. I've never tried bread and marge with ice cream but if that works then chip butties with ice cream would be the next logical step!

I wonder - does this make ice cream a condiment? Well, why not, mayonnaise and salad cream would be in there, and they are similar in consistency. I think it not out of line with the aims of any organisation devoted to the liberation of condiments that ice cream be considered a condiment.

At one time Balsamic vinegar and pepper was THE thing to put on strawberries

Please can we have a vomiting smiley.

If we do adopt that new smiley, can we at least label it a "technicolor yawn", for the sake of us squeamish types?

I love to eat fries dipped in ranch dressing, and I NEVER put salt on them, only black pepper or hot salsa! Can I join the movement, please?

SC

as a child I used to suck the salt and vinegar from my chip/fries wrappers its not that mother didnt feed me enough its just ...condiments,y know...

as a child I used to suck the salt and vinegar from my chip/fries wrappers its not that mother didnt feed me enough its just ...condiments,y know.../imposter/

well the question of why we use certaain condiments with certain foods was fiannly answered here /F19585?thread=218088 Gosh what a place eh, where we really deal with lifes important issues on a daily basis

CH

F19585?thread=218088

Clickabe this time.

CH

I apologise for not being around the first time.

It was a year before I joined, after all.

B

My beloved brother caused uproar in a very posh restaurant in the Channel Islands by demanding mint sauce with his plaice stuffed with prawns! He was about 9 at the time. Bless him!