Thousand Island also has pickel relish mixed in (hence the name. The pieces of relish are like islands in the sea of dressing.) “Russian” dressing is just mayo and ketchup.
Almost, but not quite. Thousand Island also contains an assortment of diced vegetables as well, such as pickles, onions, olives, etc…Another similar idea is Russian dressing, which usually contains an assortment of stuff like horseradish or pimentos in addition to the ketchup-mayo mix.
We’re not Orthodox (we’re Conservative), and non-Orthodox Jews who keep kosher keep kosher to varying standards. Some people will eat vegetarian or kosher fish meals cooked in non-kosher kitchens, some won’t. We do.
It’s very, very common for standards of kashrut to be different at home and outside the home, too. We have two sets of dishes at home, but we don’t worry about non-kosher dishes when we’re away from home.
I agree about lemon, although not quite to that point! Leon on just about everything from the ocean, and several other things.
I drink iced tea (often comes with lemon) and diet soda- “with lots of ice (like Missy2U) and lemon or lime wedges, or both”. Like River Hippie I order diet soda for breakfast- which used to get a raised eyebrow, but today- not so much.
I like my burgers with no condiment but 100 isle dressing- or maybe A-1 or Heinz.
Maybe mention the cow. “Do you have some sort of milk or cream that came from an actual cow?”
Yup. So is McDonald’s Big Mac “special sauce”.
I rarely eat at chain Mex places, the main exception being Don Pablo’s, and they are very good about making me bean chimis. Places that won’t (and it’s rare, mind you) usually say as their excuse that “the beans would leak out” or some such.
Nope. It’s already been mentioned twice that Thousand Island also includes the addition of diced vegetables, usually pickles, hence the name.
i thought “special sauce” was just plain mayo that’s been out in the sun.
well, if you are asking at the time the server brings you the food you want extra sauces with, that’s kind of a hassle for the server because they have to rush around trying to find all that stuff, and maybe it embarasses him. but if you ask when you order the food, giving them plenty of time to get it together, there’s no reason it should be annoying to anyone, really.
as for me, I’m a server myself, so I try to be as low-maintenance as possible (I know plenty of other people will make up for it). however, I will not tolerate onions (that are not absolutely ground into a pulp or powder) of any kind in my food. if the menu lists ingredients of a meal and does not list onions, I still make a point to say “and NO ONIONS OF ANY KIND PLEASE”, because 75% of the time there are freakin’ onions. if my food still has onions in it that can’t just be scraped off the top, I will send it back. I can’t stand them. they might as well sprinkle cockroaches all over and say bon apetit.
I also add tomatoes to a lot of things, but that’s not that odd.
And that’s your reason. My grandmother always overcooked and underdrained pasta, so Dad’s idea of penne was a mound of stuck-together penne with some tomato on top.
I cook al dente, so that’s what my brothers (who grew up with my cooking) like.
:rolleyes: I didn’t say, mean, nor imply that it was JUST mayo and ketchup. I know there is relish and so on in it, but the basis of the sauce is ketchup and mayo, thus my comment (and I hadn’t read the others or I wouldn’t have bothered). Similarly, someone might say that marinara is tomato sauce, even though it is a lot more than JUST tomato sauce. It doesn’t invalidate the simplified generalization just because one doesn’t list the full recipe.
I do too, within the limits of my observance of religious dietary laws. I’ve never made anything other than a really obvious substitution (like a veggie burger patty for a burger). I tend to order stuff that’s already vegetarian or kosher fish instead of asking for substitutions.
Never ordered anything that wasn’t on the menu, either- if I had been feeling up to being creative with food, I probably would have cooked at home instead of going out.
Well, I disagree. The pickles are a key part of Thousand Island. Russian Dressing can legitimately be called “ketchup and mayo.” Thousand Island cannot.
Opal, I just want to explain that I’m not trying to be snarky or nitpicky. The reason I wanted to make the clear distinction is because it sounded to me that gigi thought that fry sauce, which is simply ketchup and mayo, was exactly the same thing as Thousand Island dressing. I understood the point of her question as “aren’t fry sauce and Thousand Island dressing the same?” And I just wanted to make clear that they are not.
If I ask for Thousand Island and simply get ketchup & mayo mixed together, I’d be a little irritated. And I say it’s not just a silly simplification, as the whole point of the name “Thousand Island” dressing relies on the fact that there’s little bitty bits of pickles (or whatever) in it.