I just came back from the kitchen after making myself dinner (a sandwich with some pretzels and some dip) and, as is usual when making myself a sandwich, found myself eating a small tablespoon of Best Food’s (or Hellman’s east of the Mississippi) mayonnaise in addition to the inch of it I put between the bread. I love that stuff and have been known to eat mayo sandwiches (just bread and some mayo and salt and pepper) before.
I also took a swig of the worcestershire sauce bottle after making my dip for my pretzels too. I don’t think I could handle much more than the occasional sip of the stuff but anytime I find myself adding it to a meal, I can’t help put take a little pull. The spiciness of it is ambrosial.
Anyone else love condiments and find themselves eating or drinking them by themself sometimes? Surely I can’t be the only one.
I don’t know if you posting in Cafe (heh.) Society was meant to be funny, but oh well.
I love MSG. I can just take small shots of it over and over again. My face will grimace for 5 seconds and I’ll be just paralyze with shock, but I’ll keep doing it.
If you like worchestershire sauce straight, then a good aged balsamic vinegar makes a fine sipping beverage. So is straight lemon or lime juice. But not fish sauce!!! (even tho I love cooking with it)
Capers make nice tiny snacks. Along with diced pickled lemon peel.
Double concentrated tomato paste is a nice pick-me-up.
A little vegemite or marmite on a rubber spatula makes a dandy lollipop!
Nibbling on a beef boullion cube is nice if a bit messy.
Knorr makes a lemon-grass soup boullion cube that’s fun to nibble on too.
Some of the really potent soy sauces are tasty, but take in small doses.
Ah, they usually wind up getting moved here anyway.
For me, I find the Buffalo Trace BBQ sauce to be like crack, and if I taste just a smidgeon of it, I have to resist the urge to guzzle the bottle. I don’t always succeed.
I was concerned about the salt load, yes. Marmite and vegemite have similar drawbacks, but being thick and tarry, a little can last a long time. Not so with soy sauce, which can be chugged.
Same warnings apply to kosher salt, which has a pleasant mouth feel.
Well, I eat peanut butter by the spoonful. Same for chocolate frosting. Actually, Smuckers makes this product that, I swear, is good enough to turn me religious: it’s peanut butter and jelly, ‘striped’ together. In the same jar. Dear god, I love the world.
Also…I don’t eat it just on its own, but I could easily go through an entire bottle of ketchup with one serving of fries. Or a veggie burger/dog. Or anything made of potatoes* whatsoever. Or…pretty much anything.
*Tell me I’m not the only one to put ketchup on nearly any type of potato dish? Other than mashed, because…ew.
I eat salsa like crazy. I’ll dip anything in it, or just use a spoon or fork. I’m a salsaholic.
I also love balsamic vinegar (very good for sipping when chilled), and cleaning the bits of tomato paste out of the little can with my finger after scooping most of it out.
When I’m at a 7-11, sometimes I’ll slurp up the little containers of Irish Creme-flavored coffee creamer, or half-and-half when they bring it at restaurants.
For those of you familiar with the Arby’s chain of fast food places in the US… Arby’s Sauce is like crack to me for some reason…can’t get enough of it when I’m eating there. Strange…
I put A1 on everything - anything beef, from the nicest steak to McDonalds hamburgers, plus any fish or fowl. Ditto for ANY potato product - fries, naturally, but I’ll also eat it on mashed potatoes in lieu of gravy. I’ll eat it on salad like a dressing.
NinjaChick, I join you in ketchuping all, or almost all, things potato. It would be wrong to do that with mashed potatoes, though.
I also eat salt. Right from the shaker. The little cubes are so cute and so, well, salty. I have also been known to nibble on the big rock salt chunks that you put in an ice cream maker. I eat peanut butter by the spoonful and caramel sauce right from the jar. My dad takes peanut butter and jelly and mixes them together rather than putting one on each slice of bread. I eat this mixture from the jar or bowl–it rarely makes it to bread.
Oh, boy. Most of the stuff in my kitchen is condiments or spices. I don’t actually have a lot of real food. I often sample from the various jars and bottles. I also like to can my own. I make pretty good chutneys, like spicy tomato or peach. I’ve also made chili sauce, ketchup (red tomato and green tomato), and brown sauce. Of course I have to taste as I cook. I’m planning to whip up some mushroom ketchup in the near future. My favorite condiments are the salty ones though since I’m an avowed saltaholic. Marmite, vegemite, garlic salt, onion salt, coarse salt, it’s all good. I get this seasoning mix that contains salt, shallots, green peppercorns, chives, and garlic. I eat it straight sometimes. As a kid I sucked on bouillion cubes. Did you know that the “strike here” strip on matchbooks tastes salty?
It’s peanut sauce for me. If I’m cooking with it, I have to eat a spoonful out of the jar. If it’s in a restaurant served with spring rolls, my S/O restrains me from eating the remaining sauce with a spoon.
Also tapenade and Branston Pickle get the spoon treatment.
I’ll eat Cool Whip with a spoon. I also have a serious weakness for vanilla frosting. Whenever I’m around a cake with vanilla frosting, that cake will eventually be naked.
Strange? Hardly. Arby’s sauce has been scientifically proven, in at least three controlled studies of which I am aware, to be the bomb diggety shiznit. If that is not a status we can respect, I challenge you to tell me what is. When you figure it out, I’ll be at Arby’s, ordering whatever is cheap so that I can put Arby’s sauce on it.
What, Goober Grape? You like this stuff? Really? I thought nobody liked that stuff. Seriously, I’ve never met anybody who liked it before. I’ve met a couple who said that, under duress and left with no other option, they might possibly be able to eat it, but most (myself included) find it far too repellent for human consumption. I’ve found it works well as a substitute caulk or paste, but as something that is meant to be eaten, it falls well short of the mark.
My parents say that I used to eat spoonfuls of mustard, when I was about two years old. They also say I used to like pickled beets better than candy… fortunately, I grew out of all this.
No. Unless you count olives, or green tomato pickle, or hummus, as a condiment, then no…
