# I hate salsa **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691 "2000-03-31T07:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/1 "2000-03-31T07:27:00Z")
I hate everything about it…the chunks of stuff, the flavor, the texture…how can **anyone** eat this stuff? Yuck - gross - gag ~Bo~ [http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif](http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif) ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/2 "2000-03-31T09:18:00Z")
Harsh! Say “Waiter! get this slop out of here and bring me some Pico de Gallo!” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/3 "2000-03-31T11:21:00Z")
Some salsas can be pretty gross, particularly some of the store-bought stuff in a jar (chunky ketchup). A buddy of mine makes his own salsa with ingredients fresh from the garden. It’s great. Nothing better on a cheese omelet. ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/4 "2000-03-31T11:57:00Z")
Its a free country, if you don’t like it, don’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/5 "2000-03-31T16:25:00Z")
The best kind is the Southwestern style, with the little kernels of corn. Yummy. Anyone who hates salsa is a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/6 "2000-03-31T16:28:00Z")
At least you call it salsa, even if you don’t like it. I used to work in a Mexican restaurant, and I’d grit my teeth any time a customer asked for more “dip” or “sauce.” Of course, that was in Iowa, and that may go a long way toward explaining things. Morons. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/7 "2000-03-31T16:37:00Z")
Beadalin, If memory serves me right, if your customer said “sauce” then they have just spoken the English equivalent to “salsa”. Now, if I heard “dip” I would go get them a container of sour cream and say, “here’s your dip”. \< hehe \> As for the OP, true salsa isn’t watered down mush like in jars, but using fresh ingredients, it’s no more than tomatoes, onion, lime juice, serrano peppers and cilantro. The recipe I have is direct from Mexico and can’t find it at the moment. Hopefully, you are just poopooing the American version and not the real stuff. If you hate onions or tomatoes I would understand, I know some people that do, so salsa is unappealing to them. If you like both, I wonder if you have had the real thing. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/8 "2000-03-31T16:43:00Z")
Gee, my response wasn’t colored in Pit words. Damnit, I love damn salsa, but damn the fresh stuff damn jams. \< hehe \> ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/9 "2000-03-31T23:02:00Z")
Yes, the Spanish word for “sauce” is “salsa.” The term is a bit more generic though, and you could substitute the word “dip” for “salsa” also. And, I’ll just second what Crystalguy said. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/10 "2000-03-31T23:11:00Z")
Oh, sure, translate salsa for me! Hee hee. I know that it translates into “sauce,” but I mean, come on! They’re in a Mexican restaurant! All the food items were listed in Spanish (including salsa), so why revert to English on something so common? They didn’t call guacamole “avacado paste.” When there are 50 thousand bottled brands on the supermarket shelves, all clearly labeled “salsa,” I say it’s called salsa, not dip or sauce. I still say they’re morons, but waitressing will make anyone, I think, develop a rather dim view of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/11 "2000-03-31T23:16:00Z")
Salsa, that good stuff? tomatotes, chilies, and that green leafy stuff? are you human? * * * whatever ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/12 "2000-04-01T01:25:00Z")
**Beadlin** wrote > [@](#): > > I know that it translates into “sauce,” but I mean, come on! You aren’t one of those people who say, “That’s Toh-mah-toe”? ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/13 "2000-04-01T01:26:00Z")
Salsa, yum yum good stuff, as long as… ITS HOT! I mean DAMN hot. I want so much spice I am inducted into the royal order of the flaming anus with in 1 hr. * * * Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/14 "2000-04-03T00:15:00Z")
Apparently most of America doesn’t agree, since it has surpassed ketchup in sales. And with good reason, why anyone (aside from Ronald Reagan) would want to put that sweetened, overprocessed tomato pulp on anything is beyond me… Yeah, a lot of the store-bought stuff can be gross, especially the cheap-o brands, but really good homemade salsa simply cannot be beat. And the hotter, the better! If your ears, nose, and throat aren’t still tingling after fifteen minutes, then they did something wrong. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/15 "2000-04-04T04:01:00Z")
Shoot…maybe I should of posted this in MPSIMS…aaccording to all my friends, I’m the only one who hates salsa. ::Bo hangs her head in shame:: My first Pit thread turns nice… Try this: I hate fish and seafood,too! ~Bo~ [http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif](http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/16 "2000-04-04T04:03:00Z")
And spelling correctly is for pansies! ~Bo~ [http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif](http://www.spacestar.net/users/flattum/horsie.gif) ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/17 "2000-04-04T16:36:00Z")
I will agree with you on the fish and seafood thing Bo. It’s damn nasty! I even hate being at the same table with the nasty stuff…eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww. \< although, I don’t mind an occasional shrimp, cooked right it doesn’t taste fishy or seafoody to me \> ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/18 "2000-04-04T16:42:00Z")
Okay, you’re all invited over to my place for fish tacos and home-made tomatillo salsa. Wait a minute. Did I say MY place? You’re all invited over to _Chef Troy’s_ place for fish tacos and home-made tomatillo salsa. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/19 "2000-04-08T05:39:00Z")
What time should I be there, Ike? Or should I ask Chef Troy? Yummmm… fish tacos. Tomatillo salsa. Can you tell it’s almost lunch time? Speaking of Tomatillo salsa, I think I’m addicted to that green Tabasco sauce. You all ever try that? I could put it on EVERYTHING. Yummmmmmm! ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691/20 "2000-04-08T05:48:00Z")
Fish tacos… You know, I’m sure they taste wonderful. There’s just something about that term that I find utterly repulsive. Is that slang for something else? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-salsa/5691.md?page=2)