# In Which Our Food Editor Loses Her Mind **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377 "2004-11-30T20:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/21 "2004-12-01T18:23:01Z")
In college, a friend of a friend always claimed that when he died, he wanted to be cremated, and have a pinch of himself placed inside as many bottles of Mrs. Dash as possible… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/22 "2004-12-01T19:43:49Z")
That wasn’t one of the Welcoming Committee’s sacrificial goats, wasn’t it? If it isn’t, it should be. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/23 "2004-12-01T20:03:35Z")
> [@Daithe Lacha](#): > > In college, a friend of a friend always claimed that when he died, he wanted to be cremated, and have a pinch of himself placed inside as many bottles of Mrs. Dash as possible… And that boy grew up to be Mark Gruenwald! (Google it.) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/24 "2004-12-01T20:05:28Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > For God’s sake, won’t someone think of the chitlins? Beautiful. Just Beautiful. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/25 "2004-12-01T20:08:06Z")
Would you, could you, on a kite? To tell the truth – I think you might! –Cliffy, again ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/26 "2005-02-14T23:07:03Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > The Food Editor at our magazine received the following e-mail: > > **I sent you some samples of the new Mrs. Dash 10-Minute Marinades and I wanted to make sure you received them. Have you by chance had time to try them? I was just curious about how you thought they tasted. Any feedback you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!** > > She suffered a temporary sanity snap (probably from sitting too close to me) and replied, > > **I must tell you that the new Mrs. Dash marinades were simply FAN-TASTIC. Me and my husband were up all last night brushing it on turkeys, sheep, small woodland animals. It was SO much fun. Our ten wonderful children devoured the goat before I could even get it into the oven. We’ll be sure to continue using Mrs. Dash in the future.** > > She assures me the PR woman in questions has a great sense of humor . . . Mrs. Dash as a maritial aid oooooooo :eek: 😃 :smack: ---
**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:** [February 14, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/27 "2005-02-14T23:23:19Z")
Is there a **Mr. Dash**? What was she known as before she got married? Ms. Quickie? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/28 "2005-02-14T23:38:11Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > What was she known as before she got married? I wonder if she lost her hyphen to Mr. Dash. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/29 "2005-02-15T00:58:21Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > What was she known as before she got married? Simply as Dot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/30 "2005-02-15T04:16:50Z")
Darnit, akira, don’t toy with us like that. I saw this thread and thought “Oh boy! Eve’s back on the board! Our long national nightmare is over!” But alas, I woke up and it was all a dream. ---
**Author:** ![muffinismydog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@muffinismydog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muffinismydog)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/31 "2005-02-15T13:10:36Z")
stay away from my ducks (tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum). they are pets, and are not in any way or fashion to be sprinkled with ms. dash. however, my neighbor has three cats, and i hear they taste just like chicken…so be my guest. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/32 "2005-02-15T13:59:06Z")
You see, that’s the beauty of being in the trade press sometimes. The PR flacks HAVE to take what you dish out. In my game magazine incarnation we get wined, dined and practically fellated to provide ink to new games and game companies. We could ask them to peel us a grape at a trade show and they’d run right out and do it. Or, for example, I could tell the PR person “Hey, cool that you have Vin Diesel here. Tell him I loved him in Saving Private Ryan.” Flak: “Hell, tell him yourself! Come past the rope and I’ll introduce you.” Diesel: “Hello.” Flak: “JC here runs a game newsletter. He says he really liked you in SPR.” Diesel: (squeezing me until my eyes pop out like a hamster) “Thanks, man! Thanks good to hear!” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/33 "2005-02-15T14:36:31Z")
_gasp_ You _met_ Vin _DIESEL?_ _swoon_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/34 "2005-02-15T18:57:14Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I wonder if she lost her hyphen to Mr. Dash. HAH! ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/35 "2005-02-15T19:02:15Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Darnit, akira, don’t toy with us like that. I saw this thread and thought “Oh boy! Eve’s back on the board! Our long national nightmare is over!” But alas, I woke up and it was all a dream. Me too. ☹ Drat. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/36 "2005-02-15T19:03:52Z")
Well, to be totally honest, what I really thought was something like: “Eve! EVE! EveEveEveEveEveEveEveEveEveEveEveEve!!!” Dignity? What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/37 "2005-02-15T19:25:51Z")
Could you use it in Turkey’s Topkapi? Would you, could you, on an Okapi? Perhaps upon a well-grilled Quagga; A taste sensation to make you stagga! How about with a roasted Kouprey? Or sprinkled on milady’s Palfrey? Would a dash improve broiled Thylacine? (I’ll send you some, by barkentine) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/38 "2005-02-15T20:07:12Z")
Damn, JC. I’m going into the wrong line of work. ::scurries off to find how much longer it’d take to graduate if she changed her major:: Robin ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/39 "2005-02-16T02:30:13Z")
Trade press, Rob. Trade press. I have gotten or picked off… Four really nice bottles of champagne Tickets to the Wizards/Bulls playoff game (my only time seeing Jordan) Capitals partial plan season tickets A chance to ride in a replica of the General Lee with a Daisy Duke wannabe Every computer game released in the last five years Most game accessories (my favorite was the la-Z boy recliner fitted out for consoles) Absolutely torched at 10AM with two guys in kilts from the Scottish Games Alliance Met Gene Simmons Met Vin Diesel Met some guy from Survivor (who won the first year?) Hung out with Sid Meier and Lord British Endless food and drink And tons more. I have a friends who’s lead Senior testing editor at one of the largest trade tech magaiznes. He’s currently got (at no cost to himself) an XBox in his lab hooked up to a 52" plasma flatscreen. He hasn’t paid for technology in years. They send it to him and, because of editorial requirements, they put a ‘must return by’ date on it. And they’re all for 2025 or so. I have seen my publisher get televisions, bar set up, and, on one memorable occasion, a complete bedroom set delivered to his house. We took care of THAT vendor, I can tell you that. ---
**Author:** ![unison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ac91a4/32.png) [@unison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unison)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377/40 "2005-02-22T21:16:49Z")
Ok, not to be the idiot foreigner and all, but who is mrs. Dash, and why am I not getting free food samples? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-our-food-editor-loses-her-mind/277377.md?page=3)