I saw this Chaplin classic recently, and I wondered about this scene:
There’s a scene where both Chaplin’s and Oakie’s characters are eating “English mustard,” whereupon they act as though they’ve swallowed turpentine.
Is “English mustard” that bad, or is it something else?
English mustard (like Coleman’s) is very strong and is an acquired taste. If you’re not used to it, you almost certainly won’t like it.
English mustard is HOT.
In the proposed remake, with Robin Williams and Jim Carrey in the Chaplin and Oakie roles, Tabasco Sauce will be substituted in this scene.
Uke
I hope you’re joking. <shudder>
“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx
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Uke, you rapscallion! You almost gave me a heart attack.
And the role of Reichsmarshall Garbitsch, originally played by Henry Daniell, will be essayed by Pauly Shore.
One thing you have to understand about American mustard, is that, like Chinese Buddhism, it isn’t. It’s mostly tumeric, a completely different spice.
English mustard is meant to be put, very thin, on things like roast beef, not slathered in great gobs on sausages.
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams
Maybe they made the faces not because the mustard was hot but because it was English?