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Open Thread: Failures in Corporate Branding

by Anne Laurie|  March 6, 20199:03 pm| 214 Comments

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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!)

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 6, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    Mustaise would have been better.

  2. 2.

    A Ghost To Most

    March 6, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    Mayotard already exists. It’s in the WH.

  3. 3.

    The Midnight Lurker

    March 6, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    Ketchup or catsup?

  4. 4.

    raven

    March 6, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    @The Midnight Lurker: Kepitch around here.

  5. 5.

    Peale

    March 6, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    Two grating tastes that grate taste together.

  6. 6.

    Keith P.

    March 6, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    At least they didn’t go with “Mustmayorstadainnaise”….that one has already been done.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    March 6, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    I guess “Mustonaisse” really isn’t any better.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    Isn’t mayomust what McDonald’s squirts onto Big Macs?

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    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?

  10. 10.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 6, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: I thought it was marmalade.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    March 6, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    I think they should.have gone the way and made it a Mayomastburger.

  12. 12.

    LeftCoastYankee

    March 6, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    Mayotard is the official condiment of the Space Force!

  13. 13.

    Jerzy

    March 6, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    https://youtu.be/mRntutn8udw

  14. 14.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 6, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    @Keith P.: Warning: Mayonnaise will spoil before mustard.

  15. 15.

    HeleninEire

    March 6, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    That already exists. It’s called Dijonaise and it’s made by Hellmans.

  16. 16.

    A Ghost To Most

    March 6, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Would that be Greg Marmalade, who was fragged by his own troops in Vietnam?

  17. 17.

    BruceFromOhio

    March 6, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Gaia, 15 comments in and this thread is officially toxic.

    Be laughing about this for hours….

  18. 18.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 6, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: Orange Marmalade who occupies the most powerful position in the land.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 6, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Ugh. More of this crap. Reminds me of Smuckers striped peanut butter and jelly in one jar.

    Ugh, indeed. I think it was in a squeeze bottle at one point

  20. 20.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 6, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Peanut butter and jelly is a combination, I don’t understand or enjoy eating.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 6, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    also, Schakowsky 2020

    @ jdawsey1
    At one point, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a close Pelosi ally, pleaded with Democrats: “Everyone stop tweeting!”

    @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.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    March 6, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, smartest thing a Democrat has said since John Dingell told the caucus to stop twerking.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @Baud:

    I think I spent way too much money on a stripper with that stage name back in the day.

  24. 24.

    A Ghost To Most

    March 6, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: correction.

    Correction: Greg Marmalade became a WH aide, and went to prison for Watergate. Even better

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    @NotMax:

    Phrasing!

  26. 26.

    Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)

    March 6, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    @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.

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 6, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: Correction: Greg Marmalade became a WH aide, and went to prison for Watergate. Even better

    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

  28. 28.

    Shana

    March 6, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: My brother used to eat peanut butter and butter sandwiches. On purpose.

  29. 29.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @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.

  30. 30.

    plato

    March 6, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    white sauce was already taken?

  31. 31.

    A Ghost To Most

    March 6, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @Sab:
    Ilke peanuts and peanut butter, but despise it cooked in anything. The fork marks on pb cookies are appreciated.

  32. 32.

    Aleta

    March 6, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Does it come from expressing the glands of a rabbity goat-like forest creature? (Not harmed in the process of course.)

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    March 6, 2019 at 9:41 pm

    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

  34. 34.

    Gravenstone

    March 6, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 6, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @Aleta: Does it come from expressing the glands of a rabbity goat-like forest creature?

    Rabbity goat-like…? Reince Priebus? I don’t want anything from his glands

  36. 36.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @Shana: I had two last night. They were both delicious. It’s why I take statins, so I can eat stuff like that.

  37. 37.

    Anne Laurie

    March 6, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I think it was in a squeeze bottle at one point

    Combined pbj in an unbreakable tube actually makes some sense, if you live with small children who want to “help” make their own sammiches.

  38. 38.

    Gloomyjim

    March 6, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @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!

  39. 39.

    MomSense

    March 6, 2019 at 9:48 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I like sriracha ketchup. Mostly sriracha with a bit of ketchup is delicious.

  40. 40.

    Anne Laurie

    March 6, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @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*…

  41. 41.

    A Ghost To Most

    March 6, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @Shana: So did I. Then I got a job.

  42. 42.

    plato

    March 6, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    Scared that very slow moving caravans are going to get past border patrol & show up in your neighborhood?Worried about an invasion of children?Concerned you won't be able to play golf?You might be suffering from National Emergency Anxiety. IT'S DAY 19. Can you feel it?— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 6, 2019

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @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.

  44. 44.

    BellyCat

    March 6, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    @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.)

  45. 45.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    @BellyCat: PB and celery – yes. Also PB on red apple slices.

  46. 46.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:01 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Peanut butter on celery with raisins: aka ants on a log!

    ETA: Ohio Girl Scout appetizer.

  47. 47.

    Gvg

    March 6, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    That’s not a branding failure. It’s a product failure. As in why? Just don’t.

  48. 48.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    March 6, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    @BellyCat: Ants on a log are good too!

  49. 49.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 6, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    @NotMax: That’s a poor imitation of thousand island.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    @Sab: Never had it with raisins.

  51. 51.

    satby

    March 6, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    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!

  52. 52.

    BellyCat

    March 6, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: @Sab:

    You *sure* that’s not ‘rabbit poop’ on that there log?

  53. 53.

    Another Scott

    March 6, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    In other news, Kim Zetter:

    Kim Zetter Verified account @KimZetter

    House Oversight is investigating Georgia Gov Brian Kemp on voter suppression that occurred in GA under his watch. They want him to hand over communications and docs relating to voter roll purges, polling place closures, voter reg and voting machine probs.

    11:10 AM – 6 Mar 2019

    Good, good.

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  54. 54.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 6, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Made me think of the Sichuan “ants on a tree.” No peanut butter involved.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    Mayonnaise is evil. It is like Trump; it ruins everything it touches.

  56. 56.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    @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.

  57. 57.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: The whole point of a sandwich is to have multiple layers on which to spread mayonnaise, in between the other stuff.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Sab: You are dead to me.

  59. 59.

    judyinsd

    March 6, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    When younger didn’t care for tomatoes so my mom would make BLTs and replace the T with peanut butter. It was delicious!

  60. 60.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    @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.

  61. 61.

    bluehill

    March 6, 2019 at 10:20 pm

    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.

    On Monday, the Democratic Party leadership informed the public that they would be unveiling their “Save the Net” legislation to re-install net neutrality consumer protections rolled back under Donald Trump. On Wednesday, they have released a three page bill. The Bill, titled “To restore the open internet order of the Federal Communications Commission,” or “Save the Internet Act of 2019,” seeks to simply reinstate those protections rolled back by the Republican FCC. While many of us hoped that the Democrats would release a more robust set of net neutrality laws, more in line with what California recently passed, there is some very smart politicking going on here. As Speaker Pelosi said during the press conference, “A full 86 percent of Americans opposed the Trump assault on net neutrality, including 82 percent of Republicans. That’s hopeful.”

  62. 62.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: So how do you feel about Miracle Whip?

  63. 63.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 6, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    @Sab: Wow, you’re really going for it.

  64. 64.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That is beyond hilarious. Thank you. Made my night.

  65. 65.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    @Sab: I said you were de… Hey! Damn it.

  66. 66.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 6, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    @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.

  67. 67.

    Mary G

    March 6, 2019 at 10:30 pm

    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.

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:30 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: You don’t scare me. Mayo, however, does.

  69. 69.

    Keith P.

    March 6, 2019 at 10:30 pm

    @Jerzy: Finally, someone who has some culture! (I’m a Vaughnies person myself)

  70. 70.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 6, 2019 at 10:31 pm

    @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.

  71. 71.

    PJ

    March 6, 2019 at 10:31 pm

    @Sab: Mayonnaise is an abomination, an offense to the tongue, a degradation of sliced bread and lunch meat.

    That is all.

  72. 72.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    @PJ: Hey, we agree on something!

  73. 73.

    Captain C

    March 6, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    @Baud: And if the Megadeth frontman had a line of condiments, we could have Mustaine Mustaise.

  74. 74.

    Captain C

    March 6, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    @NotMax: That’s thousand island dressing.

  75. 75.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 6, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You don’t scare me.

    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.

  76. 76.

    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    March 6, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    We’re Americans. We fuck up everything. It’s in our nature.

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    March 6, 2019 at 10:39 pm

    @Sab:

    The whole point of a sandwich is to have multiple layers on which to spread mayonnaise, in between the other stuff.

    That’s how I feel about french fries, aka “ketchup delivery devices” ;)

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:39 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Today would have been my paternal grandfather’s 101st. I’ll reach out to Adam.

  79. 79.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    @Sab: Wikipedia says it goes back to Chinese Amoy (is that Fujian?) dialect, but I am going with your version.

  80. 80.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    March 6, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    I was just going to make a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. Now I need to throw some mayo and lettuce on it.

  81. 81.

    Jeffro

    March 6, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    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.

  82. 82.

    Jerzy

    March 6, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @Keith P.: I used to buy it at Gibbons’ Markets until they were driven out of business by Fairsley Foods!

  83. 83.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @Jeffro: The Dutch use them for mayo delivery.

  84. 84.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: Don’t you start.

  85. 85.

    Peale

    March 6, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    @Sab: my favorite is Penut butter and fried summer sausage on toast. Mmmm.

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    @Sab: One of the strikes against Benelux as a European pied-à-terre location.

  87. 87.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 10:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: @Sab: FOOD FIGHT!

    (Couldn’t resist)

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    @Peale: Fried summer sausage? Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  89. 89.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:47 pm

    @Jeffro: The Dutch use them for mayo [email protected]Sab: @Peale: Definitely need statins for that.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    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.

  91. 91.

    Redshift

    March 6, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    @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.

  92. 92.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    @Sab:
    Over here we trace the word to the Hokkien dialect spoken in Penang. Most Penangites know at least a few words of Hokkien.

  93. 93.

    Anne Laurie

    March 6, 2019 at 10:51 pm

    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*.)

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    @plato:

    Okay, that’s funny. Keep on mocking, Rep. Lieu.

  95. 95.

    sukabi

    March 6, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    @NotMax: no, that’s thousand island dressing.

  96. 96.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2019 at 10:54 pm

    @Sab:
    As John Travolta famously explained to Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

  97. 97.

    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 10:56 pm

    “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

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 10:57 pm

    @Sab

    Will do in a pinch as a stopgap if one is temporarily out of spackling paste. Or wood putty.

  99. 99.

    Achrachno

    March 6, 2019 at 10:57 pm

    @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.

  100. 100.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    @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.”

  101. 101.

    Sab

    March 6, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    @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.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 11:00 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Oh, high quality evil. That makes it soooooo much better.

  103. 103.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 11:02 pm

    @Steeplejack: A single unit, or do they want to buy the whole apartment building for 950000 bucks?

  104. 104.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    @Amir Khalid

    By any chance is HP Sauce a popular item in Malaysia?

  105. 105.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2019 at 11:06 pm

    @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.

  106. 106.

    Amir Khalid

    March 6, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    @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.

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    @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.

  108. 108.

    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 11:16 pm

    @Amir Khalid

    It’s now made exclusively in Belgium, which is just … wrong.

  109. 109.

    Sandia Blanca

    March 6, 2019 at 11:16 pm

    How is it possible that we are 106 comments in and not one person has mentioned John Cole’s MISSING JAR OF MUSTARD???

  110. 110.

    Aleta

    March 6, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    Don Tower and daughter pretending the family is completely legitimate.
    https://twitter.com/sokane1/status/1103421841505505280

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    B.B.A.

    March 6, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    @NotMax: This is why Brexit won.

  112. 112.

    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    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.

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 6, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @Steeplejack: I almost never pick the one that the yuppies choose.

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    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @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.

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 11:23 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    They were shopping for a single unit.

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    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 11:24 pm

    @NotMax: @B.B.A.:

    It’s also made in North York, Ontario, Canada.

  117. 117.

    Aleta

    March 6, 2019 at 11:24 pm

    @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.

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    debbie

    March 6, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    @Sab:

    And again, awesome with peanut butter.

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    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    @Jay

    I sit corrected.

    “Now with added moose.”

    ;)

  120. 120.

    Origuy

    March 6, 2019 at 11:30 pm

    @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.

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    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 11:33 pm

    @NotMax:

    Nope, Regular and 20% Less Moose.

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack

    March 6, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    @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.

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    NotMax

    March 6, 2019 at 11:39 pm

    @Jay

    Hmmmm. Moosennaise™…

  124. 124.

    Yutsano

    March 6, 2019 at 11:40 pm

    @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.

  125. 125.

    suzanne

    March 6, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    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.

  126. 126.

    suzanne

    March 6, 2019 at 11:50 pm

    Oh, and the dream condiment is harissa plus rice vinegar,

  127. 127.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 11:51 pm

    @NotMax: Let’s not be silly. Everyone knows it would be Mooseonnaise™

  128. 128.

    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 11:51 pm

    @NotMax:

    For people who want a gleuten free vegan MLT sandwich.

  129. 129.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 11:53 pm

    @suzanne: Are you saying you hate mayo and mustard?

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    Yutsano

    March 6, 2019 at 11:55 pm

    @Jay: You laugh but…a friend of mine said she wanted something like that the other day. I never understand humans sometimes…

  131. 131.

    Jay

    March 6, 2019 at 11:55 pm

    Could be worse, castoreium is a beaver anal gland extract used as a substitute for vanilla in ice cream.

  132. 132.

    Barbara

    March 6, 2019 at 11:58 pm

    @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.

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    suzanne

    March 6, 2019 at 11:58 pm

    @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.

  134. 134.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 6, 2019 at 11:59 pm

    @Jay: Anyone else going to start reading supermarket ice cream cartons now?

    Eeeewww.

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    Luthe

    March 7, 2019 at 12:01 am

    @Jay: Mutton, lettuce, and tomato?

    @suzanne: A woman after my own heart! What are your thoughts on bacon?

  136. 136.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 7, 2019 at 12:02 am

    @suzanne: A BLT with Dijon mustard could be interesting.

  137. 137.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 12:07 am

    @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.

  138. 138.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 12:09 am

    @Luthe:

    Moosinnaise, lettuce and tomatoe on gluey not-bread.

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    suzanne

    March 7, 2019 at 12:09 am

    @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.

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    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 12:11 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    The only BLT is Heritage Thick Cut smoked bacon,

    Sourdough, toasted

    Hellmans,

    Romaine,

    Heritage Krim tomatoes,

    Black pepper.

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    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 12:13 am

    @suzanne:

    Canned ham, cured ham, country ham, Black Forest Ham, prosciutto or prosecco?

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    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 12:15 am

    @Jay

    Eggs and sperm whale puke, anyone?

  143. 143.

    Yutsano

    March 7, 2019 at 12:18 am

    @Anne Laurie: If you find it in an Asian grocery store it tends to be not as expensive,

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    scav

    March 7, 2019 at 12:20 am

    @Yutsano: Anchovies might just possibly make tomato catchup edible. I’ve been wondering about attempting some mushroom catchup for a while though.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    March 7, 2019 at 12:22 am

    @suzanne:

    That shit in a squeeze bottle is like licking a dog’s ass.

    And you would know this how?

  146. 146.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 12:23 am

    Speaking of eating moose –

    A military chaplain (Rev. Joshua Fraser) writing of a dinner in an Indian camp on the upper Ottawa thus describes a dish of muffle ‘The crowning dish was that grandest of all dishes moose mouffle. This is the immense upper lip and nostrils of the animal, and I have no hesitation in pronouncing it one of the most toothsome and savoury of all the dishes within the range of the gastronomic art. It is white and tender as spring chicken, yet firm and substantial as fresh beef, with a flavor combining the excellencies of both. I eat to repletion, yet was not sensible of any of that uneasy heaviness which generally follows a too hearty meal.’ Source

  147. 147.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 12:25 am

    @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.

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    Jacel

    March 7, 2019 at 12:30 am

    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.

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    Barbara

    March 7, 2019 at 12:33 am

    @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.

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    Amir Khalid

    March 7, 2019 at 12:40 am

    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.

  151. 151.

    Sab

    March 7, 2019 at 12:43 am

    @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.

  152. 152.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 12:50 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Then there’s the famous mustard yellow belt.

    ;)

  153. 153.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 1:10 am

    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.

  154. 154.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 1:16 am

    @??? 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.

  155. 155.

    Wapiti

    March 7, 2019 at 1:24 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Maybe this will help: they aren’t insects. They’re arachnids.

  156. 156.

    Wapiti

    March 7, 2019 at 1:31 am

    @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.)

  157. 157.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 1:37 am

    @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.

  158. 158.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 7, 2019 at 1:38 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Mite-ist.

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    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 1:46 am

    @??? 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.

  160. 160.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 1:49 am

    @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

  161. 161.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 1:57 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    You bet your sweet bippy, I am. Death to all dust mites.

  162. 162.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:00 am

    @??? 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.

  163. 163.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:03 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/skin.html

    That’s just skin cells.

  164. 164.

    Yutsano

    March 7, 2019 at 2:04 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Take microbiology. Nothing will make you chill more.

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    Fair Economist

    March 7, 2019 at 2:12 am

    @??? 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!

  166. 166.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:16 am

    @Fair Economist:

    Nice!

    Sweet Dreams is lovely shade.

  167. 167.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 2:25 am

    @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.

  168. 168.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:27 am

    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.

  169. 169.

    sukabi

    March 7, 2019 at 2:29 am

    @??? 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

  170. 170.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:30 am

    @??? 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.

  171. 171.

    sukabi

    March 7, 2019 at 2:35 am

    @Jay: lololol

    More areas of investigation. ?????

  172. 172.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 2:43 am

    @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.

  173. 173.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:46 am

    @??? 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.

  174. 174.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 2:51 am

    @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”.

  175. 175.

    John Revolta

    March 7, 2019 at 2:52 am

    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.

  176. 176.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:53 am

    @??? 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” .

  177. 177.

    Fair Economist

    March 7, 2019 at 2:54 am

    @??? 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.

  178. 178.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:56 am

    @??? 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

  179. 179.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 2:56 am

    @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.

  180. 180.

    sukabi

    March 7, 2019 at 2:56 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: related to, but a tiny bit bigger than body arachnids

  181. 181.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 2:57 am

    @Fair Economist:

    All species have lights on sex, some of that winds up being the best.

  182. 182.

    Fair Economist

    March 7, 2019 at 2:59 am

    @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.)

  183. 183.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 2:59 am

    @Jay:

    Tea tree oil won’t effect demodex and other species.

    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.

  184. 184.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:00 am

    @NotMax:

    Get to know them by nym.

    Give them treats.

    Accept their different personalities.

    Teach them tricks.

  185. 185.

    sukabi

    March 7, 2019 at 3:01 am

    @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…

  186. 186.

    Fair Economist

    March 7, 2019 at 3:03 am

    @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!

  187. 187.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 3:06 am

    @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.

  188. 188.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 3:06 am

    @Jay

    Squeeze them and hug them and call them George.

    :)

  189. 189.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:08 am

    @??? 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.

  190. 190.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:12 am

    @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.

  191. 191.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 3:12 am

    @Jay:
    I understand what you’re saying. As I said, I think it’s best to try to just not think about it.

  192. 192.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:13 am

    @NotMax:

    That’s what Goku want’s to do with Tea Tree oil,

    Neither story ends well.

  193. 193.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 3:15 am

    @Jay:
    I admit I didn’t research the tea tree oil much. I’m very much against woo of any kind.

  194. 194.

    smike

    March 7, 2019 at 3:18 am

    This thread mite be getting a bit cilia than most.

  195. 195.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:19 am

    @??? 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.

  196. 196.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:24 am

    @smike:

    Cillia

  197. 197.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    March 7, 2019 at 3:26 am

    @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.

  198. 198.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 3:31 am

    @smike

    Well played.

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Beware the rods.

    :)

  199. 199.

    smike

    March 7, 2019 at 3:31 am

    @Jay:
    I found:
    cil·i·a
    Dictionary result for cilia
    /ˈsilēə/

    plural form of cilium.

    Dunno. Been wrong before.

  200. 200.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:39 am

    @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.

  201. 201.

    different-church-lady

    March 7, 2019 at 3:42 am

    DEAR HEINZ:

    IF I WANT TWO OF MY CONDIMENTS MIXED TOGETHER I CAN DO IT MY FUCKIN’ SELF.

    SIGNED,
    SHOUTY-CHURCH-LADY

  202. 202.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 3:48 am

    @different-church-lady

    Dear Heinz,

    Mayojuana.

    ’nuff said.

    ;)

  203. 203.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 3:52 am

    @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?

  204. 204.

    Anne Laurie

    March 7, 2019 at 3:53 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Oh, high quality evil. That makes it soooooo much better.

    I’ll take your share of the Kewpie mayo, and you can have my share of the Wisconsin lutefisk cheddar. Fair?

  205. 205.

    different-church-lady

    March 7, 2019 at 3:53 am

    @Jay:

    Some people don’t have the time to use two different squeeze bottles.

    SOME PEOPLE CAN KISS MY ASS.

    I’M NOT SHOUTING AT YOU. I’M JUST SAYIN’.

  206. 206.

    NotMax

    March 7, 2019 at 3:58 am

    @Jay

    The tapping was a selling point at one time in ads. Although most everyone was tapping in the wrong place.

  207. 207.

    Amir Khalid

    March 7, 2019 at 3:59 am

    @different-church-lady:
    I AGREE.

  208. 208.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 4:00 am

    @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.

  209. 209.

    different-church-lady

    March 7, 2019 at 4:03 am

    @Jay: YOU SHOULD CALM DOWN AND KISS MY ASS!

    Okay, that was a little shouty…

  210. 210.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 4:05 am

    @NotMax:

    I remember the anticipation ads,…..

  211. 211.

    Jay

    March 7, 2019 at 4:07 am

    @different-church-lady:

    And it’s supposed to be ARSE!!!!!

    What ever happened to the classics?

    Have we no TRADITION anymore?

  212. 212.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 7, 2019 at 7:51 am

    @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.)

  213. 213.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 7, 2019 at 8:02 am

    @suzanne: Disgustibus non est disputandum.

  214. 214.

    karen marie

    March 7, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    @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.

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