Mayomust is what white people smell like when it rains and they get wet. The fuck? https://t.co/bOIqxFEtfG
— michael (@SnarkySparkly) March 6, 2019
Well… at least they didn't call it Mayotard.
— J. D. Wiser (@jd_wiser) March 6, 2019
(I think the homemade version of this mixture is what my local sub shop uses for its delicious potato salad, but still… ‘Mayomust’ sounds like a translation error!)
Baud
Mustaise would have been better.
A Ghost To Most
Mayotard already exists. It’s in the WH.
The Midnight Lurker
Ketchup or catsup?
raven
@The Midnight Lurker: Kepitch around here.
Peale
Two grating tastes that grate taste together.
Keith P.
At least they didn’t go with “Mustmayorstadainnaise”….that one has already been done.
JGabriel
I guess “Mustonaisse” really isn’t any better.
NotMax
Isn’t mayomust what McDonald’s squirts onto Big Macs?
mrmoshpotato
Ugh. More of this crap. Reminds me of Smuckers striped peanut butter and jelly in one jar. What’s so hard about mixing the two parts if that’s what you want?
schrodingers_cat
@A Ghost To Most: I thought it was marmalade.
Baud
I think they should.have gone the way and made it a Mayomastburger.
LeftCoastYankee
Mayotard is the official condiment of the Space Force!
Jerzy
https://youtu.be/mRntutn8udw
Matt McIrvin
@Keith P.: Warning: Mayonnaise will spoil before mustard.
HeleninEire
That already exists. It’s called Dijonaise and it’s made by Hellmans.
A Ghost To Most
@schrodingers_cat: Would that be Greg Marmalade, who was fragged by his own troops in Vietnam?
BruceFromOhio
Gaia, 15 comments in and this thread is officially toxic.
Be laughing about this for hours….
schrodingers_cat
@A Ghost To Most: Orange Marmalade who occupies the most powerful position in the land.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ugh, indeed. I think it was in a squeeze bottle at one point
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Peanut butter and jelly is a combination, I don’t understand or enjoy eating.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
also, Schakowsky 2020
@schrodingers_cat: it was a favorite when I was a kid, now I kind of wonder how anyone ever thought of it, and why. Also, fluffernutters. And peanut butter and brown sugar. I’m lucky to have teeth, I guess.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, smartest thing a Democrat has said since John Dingell told the caucus to stop twerking.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I think I spent way too much money on a stripper with that stage name back in the day.
A Ghost To Most
@A Ghost To Most: correction.
Correction: Greg Marmalade became a WH aide, and went to prison for Watergate. Even better
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Phrasing!
Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)
@Keith P.: I’m glad someone else remembers that bit because it’s all I can think of literally every time this product is mentioned.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You wonder if he was interrogated in hearings by Senator Blutarski
it was Niedermeyer who got fragged, there was a call back to that in a Vietnam scene in…. I wanna say the Twilight Zone movie?
ETA: Guess I should have made a Spoiler Alert, that movie’s only 35 years old
Shana
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: My brother used to eat peanut butter and butter sandwiches. On purpose.
Sab
@schrodingers_cat: Was discussing this very topic with the cashier and the bagger at the grocery last night. I said I don’t like peanut butter with sweets. She was horrified that I don’t like reeces cups. I said my husband likes peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. She thought that sounded delicious. The bagger said it made him gag.
The guy in line behind us said the whole conversation put him off food.
Oh yeah. Forgot: cashier’s favorite is peanut butter, syrup and cheese. That just boggles my mind.
plato
white sauce was already taken?
A Ghost To Most
@Sab:
Ilke peanuts and peanut butter, but despise it cooked in anything. The fork marks on pb cookies are appreciated.
Aleta
Does it come from expressing the glands of a rabbity goat-like forest creature? (Not harmed in the process of course.)
Jeffro
Sriracha mayo’s pretty good but I don’t buy it that way – just buy sriracha, buy mayo, and mix a tablespoon of each when needed; otherwise, just keep you options open.
Flexibility – ESPECIALLY condiment flexibility – it’s the key to a good life
Gravenstone
@Shana: peanut butter on well buttered toast? Why yes, thank you! Good stuff, Maynard. Of course, I also like peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. Except I put lettuce on mine. Maybe it’s just an Ohio thing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Rabbity goat-like…? Reince Priebus? I don’t want anything from his glands
Sab
@Shana: I had two last night. They were both delicious. It’s why I take statins, so I can eat stuff like that.
Anne Laurie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Combined pbj in an unbreakable tube actually makes some sense, if you live with small children who want to “help” make their own sammiches.
Gloomyjim
@mrmoshpotato: GooberGrape! I grew up on that stuff. Might have had something to do with the family working for/selling to the processing plant here in OR. Fond memories of only having to open one jar!
MomSense
@Jeffro:
I like sriracha ketchup. Mostly sriracha with a bit of ketchup is delicious.
Anne Laurie
@schrodingers_cat: Be appalled: I finished off the last of the delicious mango chutney from my latest Indian-restaurant takeout with peanut butter, on an English muffin. Agree that the peanut-and-sweet combo is something that usually has to be introduced to someone at a young age… but then, that’s how I feel about fish sauce on anything, and plenty of people give me the side-eye for politely rejecting *that*…
A Ghost To Most
@Shana: So did I. Then I got a job.
plato
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Are you sure she’s not too old and female? /s
We’ll be sad in IL-09 that we won’t be able to re-elect her with 70% of the vote.
BellyCat
@Gravenstone: Peanut butter and Lettuce sandwiches (gots to be Iceberg) indeed! Also popular in the house when growing up was celery with peanut butter on it. Lays nicely in the groove. Both taste far better than they sound…
(Why, yes—my mother is from Ohio.)
mrmoshpotato
@BellyCat: PB and celery – yes. Also PB on red apple slices.
Sab
@mrmoshpotato: Peanut butter on celery with raisins: aka ants on a log!
ETA: Ohio Girl Scout appetizer.
Gvg
That’s not a branding failure. It’s a product failure. As in why? Just don’t.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@BellyCat: Ants on a log are good too!
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@NotMax: That’s a poor imitation of thousand island.
mrmoshpotato
@Sab: Never had it with raisins.
satby
For the rest of my life when my dieting resolve is weakening, I’m going to be able to refer back to this thread and completely lose my appetite for food. Any food.
Possibly even living.
Blech!
BellyCat
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: @Sab:
You *sure* that’s not ‘rabbit poop’ on that there log?
Another Scott
In other news, Kim Zetter:
Good, good.
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Made me think of the Sichuan “ants on a tree.” No peanut butter involved.
Omnes Omnibus
Mayonnaise is evil. It is like Trump; it ruins everything it touches.
Sab
@mrmoshpotato: It goes against my own personal prejudice about peanuts with sweets, but it’ s pretty popular around here.
Cleveland Orchestra included it about 50 years ago in their summer home (Blossom Music Center) picnic cookbook “Bach’s Lunch.” And yes, that was the Girl Scouts recipe.
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: The whole point of a sandwich is to have multiple layers on which to spread mayonnaise, in between the other stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: You are dead to me.
judyinsd
When younger didn’t care for tomatoes so my mom would make BLTs and replace the T with peanut butter. It was delicious!
Amir Khalid
@The Midnight Lurker:
Ahem. The word comes from my native land, where it is currently spelled kicap (before 1972, kichap) and means soy sauce. It baffles me that you Americans can confuse tomato sauce with soy sauce. The two look and taste markedly different.
bluehill
This approach on net neutrality is the one I think dems should take on taxes. Just repeal the Trump tax cut. It looks like most people including non-uber-wealthy Trump voters don’t like. Easy to explain and argue.
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: So how do you feel about Miracle Whip?
Gin & Tonic
@Sab: Wow, you’re really going for it.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: That is beyond hilarious. Thank you. Made my night.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: I said you were de… Hey! Damn it.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Sab: Something I’d gleefully force feed to people who’ve crossed me.*
Oops, you didn’t ask me. I’ll show myself out.
*Full disclosure: I am not a nice person, and a few people believe I’m dangerous. Oddly, some of them LEOs. Musicians don’t seem to find me scary. Artists and lawyers seem to have mixed views.
Mary G
Chuck Wendig is always pushing a sandwich on Twitter that has mayo, bacon, peanut butter, and pickles. People are always saying eww, then trying it and loving it. I have never felt the call to try it. Scalzi makes burritos with all kinds of horrible-sounding food combinations.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: You don’t scare me. Mayo, however, does.
Keith P.
@Jerzy: Finally, someone who has some culture! (I’m a Vaughnies person myself)
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Amir Khalid: I imagine that a great deal baffles you about us Americans. It sure as hell does me. Though I am clear about the difference between tomato sauce and soy sauce at least.
PJ
@Sab: Mayonnaise is an abomination, an offense to the tongue, a degradation of sliced bread and lunch meat.
That is all.
Omnes Omnibus
@PJ: Hey, we agree on something!
Captain C
@Baud: And if the Megadeth frontman had a line of condiments, we could have Mustaine Mustaise.
Captain C
@NotMax: That’s thousand island dressing.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good to hear. The views of others in our field here on the topic are unknown to me, but it’s unimportant.
I found a very funny line in an email that you might enjoy and will even know what it was autocorrected from. You can email Adam if you’re interested as I sent to him.
Tomorrow Townes would be 75 if he’d lived. I have a plan to honor him that I hope succeeds.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@Amir Khalid:
We’re Americans. We fuck up everything. It’s in our nature.
Jeffro
@Sab:
That’s how I feel about french fries, aka “ketchup delivery devices” ;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Today would have been my paternal grandfather’s 101st. I’ll reach out to Adam.
Sab
@Sab: Wikipedia says it goes back to Chinese Amoy (is that Fujian?) dialect, but I am going with your version.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I was just going to make a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. Now I need to throw some mayo and lettuce on it.
Jeffro
Hey I see Twitler never saw a food fight he couldn’t start/get in the middle of/throw more ‘mustaise’ around…he’s now thinking he’s going to ban the ‘fake news’ from carrying any RNC debates.
I thought no one was going to challenge His Orange Eminence anyway – what RNC debates?
The guy only knows one thing, and it is to provoke, then turn things to shit.
Jerzy
@Keith P.: I used to buy it at Gibbons’ Markets until they were driven out of business by Fairsley Foods!
Sab
@Jeffro: The Dutch use them for mayo delivery.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Don’t you start.
Peale
@Sab: my favorite is Penut butter and fried summer sausage on toast. Mmmm.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: One of the strikes against Benelux as a European pied-à-terre location.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: @Sab: FOOD FIGHT!
(Couldn’t resist)
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: Fried summer sausage? Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Sab
@Jeffro: The Dutch use them for mayo [email protected]Sab: @Peale: Definitely need statins for that.
Steeplejack
House Hunters International has got to be the most maddening of the HGTV shelter shows. Currently watching two Los Angeles real-estate people trying to find an apartment in Florence, Italy, for $950,000. At least it looks like their marriage will survive this adventure, which is not my impression in most episodes.
Redshift
@Sab: When I was a teenager, I considered mayo to be sandwich glue. I also made sandwiches with more layers then. These days, not so much.
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
Over here we trace the word to the Hokkien dialect spoken in Penang. Most Penangites know at least a few words of Hokkien.
Anne Laurie
Consumer report: I’ve always been meh about mayo in general, but Japanese Kewpie mayo is worth the premium. (I think it’s the vinegar more than the egg yolks, but it makes bland sandwiches *sing*.)
Steeplejack
@plato:
Okay, that’s funny. Keep on mocking, Rep. Lieu.
sukabi
@NotMax: no, that’s thousand island dressing.
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
As John Travolta famously explained to Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
Jay
“Customs and Border Protection has compiled a list of 59 mostly American reporters, attorneys and activists for border agents to stop for questioning when crossing the U.S-Mexican border at San Diego-area checkpoints, and agents have questioned or arrested at least 21 of them, according to documents obtained by NBC station KNSD-TV and interviews with people on the list.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/u-s-officials-made-list-reporters-lawyers-activists-question-border-n980301
NotMax
@Sab
Will do in a pinch as a stopgap if one is temporarily out of spackling paste. Or wood putty.
Achrachno
@Amir Khalid: “It baffles me that you Americans can confuse tomato sauce with soy sauce.”
You seem very familiar with us, you must have noticed we’re an easily confused people.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: “I want a home with everything I had in Dallas. But it has to be in Belgavia and I won’t go higher than $250,000. And I need green space for my cats.”
Sab
@Amir Khalid: How many languages do you speak? How far down the list is English as far as languages you feel fluent or competent using.
You are our resident polite pedant for English. Humbling for us monolinguals.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: Oh, high quality evil. That makes it soooooo much better.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: A single unit, or do they want to buy the whole apartment building for 950000 bucks?
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
By any chance is HP Sauce a popular item in Malaysia?
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
It is typical for a Malaysian to be fluent in three languages — Malay and English, plus your own mother tongue — and have at least a smattering of one or two more.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
It’s sold in the supermarkets here, and I think not just to white expatriates. As a tech journalist I would sometimes ask Hewlett-Packard employees about the staff discount they got on it.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Exactly. “And why are the people here so weird? What’s up with that?”
This couple spent the whole episode rhapsodizing about the classical beauty of Florence and wanting to own a little piece of the dream, and then at the very end, in the very short “four months later” snippet, it seemed to become clear that they’re going to set up an Airbnb that they will use occasionally. Womp womp.
Also, their “budget” was $950,000, but the Italian real-estate guy showed them nothing under $1.1 million. WTF? Seems like they had some expensive requirements, like “must be within spitting distance of the Ponte Vecchio.” Would like those made more explicit for my predictions on which choice they will go for.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
It’s now made exclusively in Belgium, which is just … wrong.
Sandia Blanca
How is it possible that we are 106 comments in and not one person has mentioned John Cole’s MISSING JAR OF MUSTARD???
Aleta
Don Tower and daughter pretending the family is completely legitimate.
https://twitter.com/sokane1/status/1103421841505505280
B.B.A.
@NotMax: This is why Brexit won.
Jay
The history of ketchup is interesting,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
The squeeze bottles of Baconnaise, Sausageaise and Gravyaise showing up in the local grocery store’s condiment aisles,
Not so much.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I almost never pick the one that the yuppies choose.
NotMax
@NotMax
Come to think of it, if there are shortages or steep price hikes in the U.K. post-Brexit, there will be rioting in the streets.
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
They were shopping for a single unit.
Jay
@NotMax: @B.B.A.:
It’s also made in North York, Ontario, Canada.
Aleta
@Anne Laurie: It’s great with shredded cabbage or on cukes. There used to be a movie theater ad for it that was just a giant head of cabbage that slowly filled the screen. No image of the mayo. Its name spoken once at the tail end of the ad.
debbie
@Sab:
And again, awesome with peanut butter.
NotMax
@Jay
I sit corrected.
“Now with added moose.”
;)
Origuy
@Anne Laurie: Chutney and peanut butter on an English muffin sounds delicious. I just had tile put on my kitchen floor and I can’t go in there for three days. That will be one of the first things I make.
Jay
@NotMax:
Nope, Regular and 20% Less Moose.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I know the shows are rigged and the producers try to heighten the drama, but I can’t resist trying to figure out the relationship dynamics. And I do like seeing the houses and what people respond to.
ETA: The three Florence places sucked. Maybe the only thing they had going for them was spitting distance to the Ponte Vecchio.
NotMax
@Jay
Hmmmm. Moosennaise™…
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: Because language is weird like that. It’s entirely possible to borrow a word like ketchup but have it mean something else. And in this case it’s all on us. Ketchup did in fact mean originally a type of fish sauce but in the 19th century we changed the primary preparation ingredient to tomatoes. So it’s because we just kept the name instead of calling it something else. Who knew?
Also: the original tomato ketchup recipe called for anchovies. That sounds…even more brilliant.
suzanne
Mayonnaise plus yellow mustard is somehow, like, logarithmically bad. Two gross things that, when added together, are more bad than the two individual condiments would indicate.
suzanne
Oh, and the dream condiment is harissa plus rice vinegar,
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Let’s not be silly. Everyone knows it would be Mooseonnaise™
Jay
@NotMax:
For people who want a gleuten free vegan MLT sandwich.
mrmoshpotato
@suzanne: Are you saying you hate mayo and mustard?
Yutsano
@Jay: You laugh but…a friend of mine said she wanted something like that the other day. I never understand humans sometimes…
Jay
Could be worse, castoreium is a beaver anal gland extract used as a substitute for vanilla in ice cream.
Barbara
@Sab: I worked for a summer for someone who ate pb and bacon sandwiches for breakfast, along with scotch whiskey.
My favorite pb sandwich combination is with strawberries, agave and flax seed. No alcohol is involved. When I run low on proper desserts I make an impromptu Reeses by pressing bittersweet chips into a spoonful of peanut butter. I would not have survived childhood without peanut butter.
suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: Yes. Mayo is slimy and yellow mustard is like good food that was left out to spoil.
Dijon mustard is delicious. That shit in a squeeze bottle is like licking a dog’s ass.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Anyone else going to start reading supermarket ice cream cartons now?
Eeeewww.
Luthe
@Jay: Mutton, lettuce, and tomato?
@suzanne: A woman after my own heart! What are your thoughts on bacon?
mrmoshpotato
@suzanne: A BLT with Dijon mustard could be interesting.
Jay
@Yutsano:
People have spent masses of time and money, trying to come up with a meatless meat substitute that captures all the complexity of meat.
Dated a Vegan for a while who was trying to launch an array of vegan pates. Tasted like baby food, not pate. Didn’t have the fats, mouth feel, flavour or serving texture.
Money’s Mushrooms came up with a mushroom burger that came close, but in the end, you had to accept that you were eating mostly a Portabello mushroom.
A&W has come closest so far with their Meatless Burger, but unless you eat your burgers “factory loaded”, it’s close, but no cigar.
Jay
@Luthe:
Moosinnaise, lettuce and tomatoe on gluey not-bread.
suzanne
@Luthe: I like the smell of bacon more than the taste. I can take or leave bacon. Absolutely do not like ham. Food should not be that color.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
The only BLT is Heritage Thick Cut smoked bacon,
Sourdough, toasted
Hellmans,
Romaine,
Heritage Krim tomatoes,
Black pepper.
Jay
@suzanne:
Canned ham, cured ham, country ham, Black Forest Ham, prosciutto or prosecco?
NotMax
@Jay
Eggs and sperm whale puke, anyone?
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: If you find it in an Asian grocery store it tends to be not as expensive,
scav
@Yutsano: Anchovies might just possibly make tomato catchup edible. I’ve been wondering about attempting some mushroom catchup for a while though.
Omnes Omnibus
@suzanne:
And you would know this how?
NotMax
Speaking of eating moose –
Jay
@NotMax:
Back around 1974, on a wet, cold winters day, in Fundy National Park, Tar, a blab/x, running off leash, found and rolled in ambergris. Funny thing is, ambergris is used in perfumery, for it’s ability to capture and hold any scent, but first it has to be “stripped” of it’s previous scent, captured in a Sperm Whales stomach.
They don’t tell you about that part.
A 60 mile drive in a station wagon with all the windows rolled down, in the February rain, to a groomers, will burn that fact deep into your soul, and the dog, when wet for the next 6 months, will remind you.
Jacel
These products are a surprising misstep from Heinz, after they introduced a good non-crap-ingredients mustard as a companion to their incumbent ketchup brand a few years ago.
Barbara
@Jay: the only way to make vegan pate palatable is to incorporate some kind of nuts, like cashew cream. This is also true for vegan pumpkin pie.
Amir Khalid
In my view, The One True Mustard is Colman’s. Just don’t try swallowing it by the jar, as some weird people on YouTube have tried. It’s not meant to be taken that way, it’s too strong for that, and any such attempt will not end well.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: Just spent an hour babbling with my sister who speaks Mandarin, Shanghainese, French, as well as her native English and a bit of Japanese and Korean. She was fascinated about ketchup, and also the Fujian and Hokkainese connection. She also has a very impressive US Southern acent in English, which drives the rest of her family crazy.
I only speak English, read French , and understand a smattering of Spanish, Hebrew and Gaelic ( who knows any of that?) I think her language fluency is very weird, but I live in America.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Then there’s the famous mustard yellow belt.
;)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
OT: This is going to sound really stupid, but dust mites freak me out. The very thought that these things are crawling around in my bedding, the carpets I walk on, the sofas and chairs I sit on, my clothing; floating in the very air I breathe is very disquieting. It’s true I can’t see them or feel them. They don’t cause me any harm. The “not seeing them” doesn’t really help. I think I have a problem with dust mites and not other microbes simply because I don’t like insects in general.
They’re even in our cars so that’s not an escape either. Probably not going to get much sleep tonight after reading about them.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Chill. Between mites of assorted types and bacteria, each one of us is a walking, talking Amazon forest. When the ecosystem is healthy, all is well. When you futz with the ecosystem, the consequences can be severe.
Think of the dust mites like little WallE’s carefully recycling all the dead cells that fall off you, with out whom, you would have to wade through the castoff cells like deep snow.
Wapiti
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Maybe this will help: they aren’t insects. They’re arachnids.
Wapiti
@Jay: I sometimes use “my 300 million closest friends” when talking about my gut bacteria. I guess that number is actually low; we’ve got something like 10-30 trillion microbes of all sorts, along for the ride. (So at least as many microbe cells as human cells.)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
I’d rather have to clean up my excess dead skin myself than have those eldritch abominations exist. I’m well aware there’s lots of microbes on my body, as well as inside me. But they don’t bother me as much. They’re tiny blobs that move around. Not as scary as creatures with eight legs that scurry around, unseen, in the millions in our bedsheets.
Omnes Omnibus
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Mite-ist.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
You would be cleaning up your body weight 16 times a year.
You would have to vacume 8 times a day to prevent your dead cells from becoming a neucleus for deadly virii and bacteria.
A lot easier to have the bioorgasims that live with us as almost pets, do the job.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Source? Besides, I’m sure in a world without dust mites, somebody would have have made a Roomba-esque vacuum cleaner capable of holding the typical amounts of dirt manual vacuum cleaners do. I’d prefer the peace of mind
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Omnes Omnibus:
You bet your sweet bippy, I am. Death to all dust mites.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Follicle motes are the either the pregener or postgener of dust mites. They live in the follocles of your hair, ( body, head, face, ears, nose),
Suck it up butter cup.
With out follicle mites, you would be bald, hairless, suffer from a broad array of skin diseases and infections, and have a higly compromised immune system.
The Roomba came out in 2002. The vacume, 1860’s.
With out dust mites colonizing our debris, we would have never made it out of Africa.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/skin.html
That’s just skin cells.
Yutsano
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Take microbiology. Nothing will make you chill more.
Fair Economist
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Ooh, do you know about the mites that live in our eyelash follicles? One to a follicle. They come out at night to mate.
Sweet dreams!
Jay
@Fair Economist:
Nice!
Sweet Dreams is lovely shade.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay: @Fair Economist:
They don’t like the light apparently. Would sleeping with the lights on help? I’m going to bathe myself in tea tree oil one of these days. Also, the younger you are, the less likely you are to have Demodex.
Jay
Dermodex spiders,
3 differnt kinds of lice,
Mites,
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-why-you-are-more-bug-than-human
The Balloon Juice Body After Dark.
sukabi
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: they aren’t just in your bed, they are in your body scavenging every minute of every day without fail.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150508-these-mites-live-on-your-face
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Why bother?
Our bodies are an ecosystem, inside and out. As long as that ecosystem is healthy, we are healthy.
The less you screw with it, the less likely you will need a fecal transplant.
sukabi
@Jay: lololol
More areas of investigation. ?????
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Like I said, I couldn’t care less about the bacteria on my skin and in my body, such as my gut. I hate bugs. They give me the creeps.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
With out the bugs, inside and out, you would be dead.
And yes, it ain’t just bacteria inside, there’s “bugs” too.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Tell you what. Every six weeks for the next year, I’m going to wash with tea tree oil. We’ll see if I end up “bald, with a highly compromised immune system, and skin infections”.
John Revolta
Well this has been a helluva day. First Betty C. gets bit on the face by a wolf spider and now it’s billions and billions of creepy fuckers living on my nose hairs. I can’t wait to see what’s waiting for me in Slumberland.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Tea tree oil won’t effect demodex and other species.
For that you need a DDT bath.
You should stay away from the “woo” .
Fair Economist
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Dunno how follicke mites would respond to indefinite light. They would still be happy chewing inside your follicles. I’m sure they would manage to get it on eventually, they would probably just not get to have as much fun.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
“Although there is little evidence of efficacy, it is typically used as a topical medication in low concentrations by folk medicine for attempted treatments of skin conditions.[2][3][4] Tea tree oil is claimed as useful for treating dandruff, acne, lice, herpes, insect bites, scabies, and skin fungal or bacterial infections.[3][4][5] However, the quality of the evidence for efficacy in these conditions is minimal.[3][6] Tea tree oil is neither a patented product nor an approved drug,[4] and is poisonous if consumed by mouth.[7]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Think how they feel. Never, never get a place – or even acknowledgement – on the B-J pets calendar. Relish the fact that you provide nourishment to millions.
sukabi
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: related to, but a tiny bit bigger than body arachnids
Jay
@Fair Economist:
All species have lights on sex, some of that winds up being the best.
Fair Economist
@John Revolta: It’s billions of germs. There’s probably only a few million creepy spider relatives living on you.
(As pointed out above they are probably good for you, not really creepy. I wouldn’t be surprised if skin oils had stuff in them specifically to help feed them.)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it //
TBH, I remember reading about those mites in the past. I was freaked out at the time, but I eventually forgot. I guess it’s best if I just don’t think about it.
@Fair Economist:
It stands to reason that if they couldn’t leave the follicles, they would eventually die out, not being able to mate.
Jay
@NotMax:
Get to know them by nym.
Give them treats.
Accept their different personalities.
Teach them tricks.
sukabi
@Jay: they might adjust, but constant exposure to light will have an adverse effect on the human body…sleep cycles screwed up, hormones messed up…
Fair Economist
@NotMax: Just tell them they *are* in the BJ calendar. They don’t have the visual apparatus to see for themselves. You could make millions happy!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@sukabi:
Actually, I slept just fine for years with a window candle on in my room. My house has them in all the street facing windows and I never bothered to turn the one in my room off. It’s bright enough to read by and lights up the room.
NotMax
@Jay
Squeeze them and hug them and call them George.
:)
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
They can leave the follicles in light, they just prefer the dark.
Remember those sci-fi plots where our universe is just a molecule or atom in another universe?
So we are a planet, cononized by millions of species, mostly living in harmony. A walking ecosystem. Some of the colonists that live inside are inside our very cells. All of them help keep this walking planet healthy.
Jay
@sukabi:
Nope. It’s the sleep cycles getting futzed up that has the impact. Even the 2 week shift wasn’t enough to not damage the sleep cycle.
It’s not the light.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
I understand what you’re saying. As I said, I think it’s best to try to just not think about it.
Jay
@NotMax:
That’s what Goku want’s to do with Tea Tree oil,
Neither story ends well.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
I admit I didn’t research the tea tree oil much. I’m very much against woo of any kind.
smike
This thread mite be getting a bit cilia than most.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I think it’s actually important to think about.
For example, for medical reasons, you do a course of antibiotics.
For every bad guy they kill, there’s 1,000, 10,000 good guys dead as collateral damage.
Antibacterial soap for example.
There’s shit loads of “woo” out there that if you buy into it, has severe consequences for your ecosystem.
We should remember that from time to time.
Jay
@smike:
Cillia
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
I meant not think about the mites because I find them disturbing. I was referring to myself. I’m a nursing student so of course I think about the body’s microbiota when it comes to antibiotics.
NotMax
@smike
Well played.
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Beware the rods.
:)
smike
@Jay:
I found:
cil·i·a
Dictionary result for cilia
/ˈsilēə/
plural form of cilium.
Dunno. Been wrong before.
Jay
@smike:
[email protected]??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
The mites, lice and spiders are also part of the ecosystem, along with the ecosystem that used to live in the furs we used to sleep in, but has now migrated to sheets.
Anybody know at what temps bedbugs go dormant?
I’m thinking of taking a White House tour with a fake insulin pump.
different-church-lady
DEAR HEINZ:
IF I WANT TWO OF MY CONDIMENTS MIXED TOGETHER I CAN DO IT MY FUCKIN’ SELF.
SIGNED,
SHOUTY-CHURCH-LADY
NotMax
@different-church-lady
Dear Heinz,
Mayojuana.
’nuff said.
;)
Jay
@different-church-lady:
Some people don’t have the time to use two different squeeze bottles.
Remember the old daze when ketchup required a knife, or the deadly, inaccurate tap, tap, tap, splooge?
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ll take your share of the Kewpie mayo, and you can have my share of the Wisconsin
lutefiskcheddar. Fair?different-church-lady
@Jay:
SOME PEOPLE CAN KISS MY ASS.
I’M NOT SHOUTING AT YOU. I’M JUST SAYIN’.
NotMax
@Jay
The tapping was a selling point at one time in ads. Although most everyone was tapping in the wrong place.
Amir Khalid
@different-church-lady:
I AGREE.
Jay
@different-church-lady:
Seems a little shouty.
You should calm down and have a gluten free BLT.
Baconaisse, Lettuce and Tomato on gooey non-bread.
different-church-lady
@Jay: YOU SHOULD CALM DOWN AND KISS MY ASS!
Okay, that was a little shouty…
Jay
@NotMax:
I remember the anticipation ads,…..
Jay
@different-church-lady:
And it’s supposed to be ARSE!!!!!
What ever happened to the classics?
Have we no TRADITION anymore?
Uncle Cosmo
@Sab: Mayo is good for meat & fish salads, & turkey sammiches after the Great American Pig-Out (bka Thanksgiving). Miracle Whip (“Murkle Whup” sayowth of the Potomac) is however both vile & evil. (NB I believe “Miracle Whip” was Mr Kraft’s nom de gloom in Tampa.)
Uncle Cosmo
@suzanne: Disgustibus non est disputandum.
karen marie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Have you had peanut butter and bacon? OMG – it is the best thing ever. On toasted white bread. Like you’ve died and gone to heaven.
Also too, I don’t know if anyone mentioned it (I am on my way out the door, don’t have time to read 200 comments) but DIY mayo is THE BEST! It is so easy. You make it with a whole egg, oil, lemon juice or vinegar, salt, a clove of diced garlic, and a slap of dijon mustard, in a jar, with a stick blender. It’s not stick-to-the-ceiling thick like store bought but 10,000,000 times more delicious. And if you want “mayomust,” sub your mustard of choice for the dijon, and add more at the end to get it the way you want it. Ditto, mayocue.