# Do you like Horseradish Sauce? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328 "2005-09-25T12:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/21 "2005-09-26T00:20:51Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > . > > How else can you eat roast beef? Or drink Bloody Mary’s? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/22 "2005-09-26T00:22:11Z")
Ignore that apostrophe. I don’t know how it got in there. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/23 "2005-09-26T00:23:59Z")
For that sin, you must drink your next Bloody Mary sans Worchestershire! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/24 "2005-09-26T00:32:33Z")
I just realized I made my first mistake on the boards (no, I’m serious) on my 1500th post. Five years of perfection down the drain… Still, that punishment is too harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/25 "2005-09-26T00:36:52Z")
Of course, now I’m on a roll. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/26 "2005-09-26T00:37:56Z")
Kaiser or crescent? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/27 "2005-09-26T09:40:15Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > I love it. I put it in my cocktail sauce Speaking of cocktail sauce (mmm…good horseradishy cocktail sauce) here’s something I never understood. The English, who seem to have a good healthy appreciation of horseradish (or at least they know how to treat roast beef) for some reason have no cocktail sauce. Well they have something pink made with mayonaisse that they _call_ cocktail sauce, but it’s not it. Can somebody explain that to me? Is it because when it’s not applied to beef they get confused? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/28 "2005-09-26T10:05:42Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Mmm, horseradish! If only I weren’t a vegetarian, I’d be eating it all the time! It doesn’t have real horse in it, you know 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/29 "2005-09-26T10:36:15Z")
I love it; the real hot stuff - not the creamy pap that is so prevalent. Excellent with smoked mackerel (which happens to be one of my favourite things) or with strong cheese. And of course with beef ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/30 "2005-09-26T10:41:04Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Speaking of cocktail sauce (mmm…good horseradishy cocktail sauce) here’s something I never understood. The English, who seem to have a good healthy appreciation of horseradish (or at least they know how to treat roast beef) for some reason have no cocktail sauce. Well they have something pink made with mayonaisse that they _call_ cocktail sauce, but it’s not it. Can somebody explain that to me? Is it because when it’s not applied to beef they get confused? The pinkish sauce on a prawn cocktail would be _Marie Rose sauce_ (or often, sadly, something only approximating it). We have any number of other sauces and dressings, but none of them is anywhere nearly as popular as _Salad Cream_ - it’s regarded by many as an abomination, but that’s beside the point; The absence of any other particular sauce that may be popular elsewhere is explained (though perhaps not excused) by the market domination of salad cream. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/31 "2005-09-26T13:27:52Z")
I hadn’t tried it until recently, and I kind of went on a “bender” with it, eating something with it nearly every day. So now I’m kind of sick of it, but I’ll get back into it. I feel really stupid admitting this, but I don’t think I ever got the joke until just now of an alcoholic robot being named ‘Bender’. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/32 "2005-09-26T15:17:55Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > It doesn’t have real horse in it, you know 😛 Yeah, right–pull the other one! Next you be telling me that goldfish crackers are vegetarian. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/33 "2005-09-26T16:42:48Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Yeah, right–pull the other one! Next you be telling me that goldfish crackers are vegetarian. > > Daniel And animal crackers are vegan. I like Horseradish sauce. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/34 "2005-09-26T16:48:11Z")
I love horseradish and wasabi, but I don’t subscribe to the idea that sushi need be eaten with heaping teaspoons of green horseradish (or real wasibi, if you’re so lucky.) I mean, a little bit is fine, but with the way I see some people eat their sushi (drowning it in soy and pasting it in wasibi), how do they taste the fish at all? ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/35 "2005-09-26T17:39:34Z")
I mix wasabi with soy, but I allow the sushi rice to only soak up a wee bit. All the flavors come through quite well. As for horseradish sauce, yes please. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/36 "2005-09-26T17:52:46Z")
I don’t like most horseradish sauces. I can’t get around the prickles in it, it tastes/feels like I’m eating a cactus to me. However I’ve found some sauces that have a bit of horseradish in them (not as a main flavor) that are actually good. Just enough for a mild bite, not enough for the overwhelming prickle. Arby’s horsey sauce is good, so is their Southwest sauce. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/37 "2005-09-26T17:58:50Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I feel really stupid admitting this, but I don’t think I ever got the joke until just now of an alcoholic robot being named ‘Bender’. … … … :o ---
**Author:** ![eyoung123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@eyoung123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyoung123)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/38 "2005-09-26T18:11:18Z")
Not perfectly in step with the OP but… Recipe for what my mother figure calls Lockober dip (from the reseraunt one would guess, but she has no idea from whence it came). 1 Pound cream cheese (regular block type) room temp 1 pound sour cream (same temp as cream cheese) 1 Package of good seasons salad drsssing mix ( I like the zesty one) …and here is where is has some revalence to the OP 🙂 Prepared horseradish to taste, I generally use 2-3 Tblsp, but I LOVE horseradish (The recipe calls for the kind tinted/flavored with beet juice, it makes for a very pink finished dip… but it is not required, so the garlic stuff is a definite possibility) mix it all up until smooth (a hand mixer or kitchen aid is highly recommended), I usually save the horseradish until the very end, lettting it sit overnight improves the flavor immensly. serve with potato chips (preferably Ruffles, IMHO) or veggies. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/39 "2005-09-27T00:07:09Z")
A local restaurant has astonishing horseradish. I get a little paper cup of it and put it on their grilled chicken sandwich and it makes me cry. God, I love that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328/40 "2005-09-27T14:54:17Z")
In Buffalo we have a sandwich called a beef on Weck. A Weck is a nickname for a Kimmelweck roll. It’s like a big Kaiser roll with caraway seeds and coarse sea salt on top. Huge serving of roast beef and a fresh horseradish/vinegar sauce on said roll. Mmmmmmm Yummy. Years ago I was Best Man at a small Wedding. It the buffet line the Maid of Honor dolloped a huge glop of horseradish onto her plate, I leaned over the table and asked her to marry me. She only giggled ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-horseradish-sauce/323328.md?page=3)