I tend to agree with you, however I did once see a post on social media arguing that a properly seasoned burger shouldn’t need condiments to taste good, and that condiments are just a way of covering up underseasoned meat. However it did seem like this person was using this idea to support the stereotype that white people don’t season their food, and was likely purposely posting something “controversial” in order to to boost their engagement score.
It is however high in distinctive flavor. As in one molecule of mustard will destroy any food it touches.
As to the OP:
If your sandwich / burger / dog of mostly dry ingredients is served on useless flavorless but very moist and mooshy white bread you don’t need wet condiments.
The same dry cheese & meat on real quality hard dry crunchy bread like sourdough, French, dark rye, or Pumpernickel? Inedible without a sauce to wet it down.
@LSLGuy
Mr. 4 quarts of liquid w every meal.
Not really - he treated any melted on cheese and condiments as part of whatever it was sticking to. He was built like a big football linesman (though sports-wise he was a power-hitting baseball player by preference) and it was his way of making a meal last longer when he was young and poor. That stuck with him as a habit even into college.
I can’t eat mayo (allergic), so I put hot sauce on my BLTs instead.
Burgers–ketchup and mustard.
Deli sandwiches–different varieties of mustard, depending upon the sandwich.
One of the sandwiches featured in a YouTube clip about “unusual British sandwiches” was a toast sandwich - a slice of toast between two untoasted slices of bread. No condiments.
If you like 'em dry, there you go.
I cannot begin to imagine the thought process that decided this would be a remotely enjoyable food item.
KMM?
Most “yellow” mustard has added ingredients like Turmeric. Does pure coarse ground mustard (just mustard and vinegar), also make you sick? I have a friend that feels that same about Yellow Mustard.
That’s why i like to have a glass of water with my meal. That sandwich you describe sounds delightful, and adding a bunch of slimy sauces would be detrimental to its pie sandwich joy.
Um… That doesn’t appeal at all.
That astonishes me. Mustard has an extremely strong and distinctive flavor. It’s spicy. It can overwhelm other food. It’s very popular, but it’s also an easy condiment to hate.
Turmeric is gentle and warm. It’s often added just for the color, in quantities small enough that it doesn’t much affect the flavor.
I mostly avoid mustard, but i buy turmeric by the pound, because we cook Indian food and it’s in everything.
Turmeric is also botanically a ginger, and is probably good for you. Like, not just a good food, but something people take as a supplement. K in much larger quantities than the amount used to color mustard.)
Sure, but hate of just yellow Mustard is not uncommon-
It took me a couple minutes to figure it out as Google wasn’t helping me, nor was ChatGPT, but I think I got it! Ketchup, mustard, mayo.
Thanks, makes total sense.
Taste is dynamic. I liked yellow mustard as a child, then became more adventurous and preferred a wide variety of other mustards for decades and sort of turned up my nose at yellow. A couple of years ago, I put some on a sausage and now I really enjoy it, again.
True.
I like yellow on hot dogs (Proustian) , but on sausages, ham, etc i want something with more flavor- my fave is stone ground with horseradish.
as was used by other posters, Ketchup/Mustard/Mayo
I may be an extreme-center outlier here, in that I’m perfectly fine with almost all sandwich condiments(*) including mustard and mayo, but I also like dry sandwiches.
Too much gloopy stuff literally dripping from a sandwich is not appealing, but beyond that I really don’t care if the bread envelope is lubricated to friction-free tenderness, or dryly firm and gnawable.
In fact, I quite enjoy chomping on a plain piece of dry stale bread, and I’d totally take one of those British dry toast sandwiches if the bread is decent. Yum!
Mmmm, now I’m hungry. Gimme that jaw-developing superchew dry sandwich and I will grapple with it like a lioness peeling back the skin on a wildebeest. Although if you really must sauce it up first, that’s fine, I’ll still enjoy it.
(*) Skip the sweet pickle relish and similar, though, thx.
That’s one of my favorite sandwiches. When I travel, I ofte get lunch at a supermarket, buying a loaf a bread, a hunk of cheese, and maybe some sliced meat. I cut open the bread with my trustly pocket knife (damn TSA!! we hates them. and we sometimes packs a checked bag mostly to have a pocketknife) and saw off some hunks of cheese, spread them around the bread, and enjoy!
Sadly for me, if you “sauce it up”, you’ve probably ruined it for me.
I prefer a burger with secret sauce: mayo, mustard and ketchup, pickle relish optional. I love the sauce on an In N Out Double-Double.
OK, I went to some place and ordered a chili cheeseburger, and it was definitely not dry. It had some kind of chili on it.
Your basic mayochup; it has a lot of names…
If they do not explicitly ask you what you want on the burger, you have to read the menu, and tell them to hold the mayo or “secret sauce” or whatever, should that be your desire.
My first job in high school was as dishwasher in a “no alcohol” type restaurant chain (modelled on the “Big Boy” franchise) The elderly founder was still alive when I started working (1971) and he would tell each employee who was in training :..“NEVER serve a dry sandwich”. Also related to this I notice many restaurants today making food serve food with Aioli sauce (colorful mayonnaise)