# There is only one thing more horrible than Hitler, Saddam, Osama, Disease, Death..... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424 "2003-02-03T03:18:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/1 "2003-02-03T03:18:14Z")
And it is **Soggy Bread!** A well made sandwich is an exquisite delight. Except when one of the ingredients has made the edge of the bread go soggy. It puts me right off! Of course any trivial concern such as soggy bread is, in fact, _not_ more horrible than those things mentioned in the title. But one tries to improve one’s case with a little rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/2 "2003-02-03T03:22:08Z")
you lied! You’re a phony! A big fat phony! Hey everybody! He’s nothing but a big phony! _proceeds to paint PHONY on Lobsang’s car_ ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/3 "2003-02-03T03:29:18Z")
[mst3k ep "Mitchell] Word on the street is, you’re a phony. [/mst3k] ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/4 "2003-02-03T03:57:27Z")
I must agree. S’why at work I always squeeze as much of the juice as I can off of the pickles and pepperoncinis. And if the customer says they’ll be eating it tomorrow, I’ll be sure to put the mayo and mustard between the meat and the fixins’, instead of on the bread, so the bread will last. ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/5 "2003-02-03T04:09:41Z")
Poster **Lobsang** has started a thread The world greatest horror, he said. …Was it Hitler? Saddam? …Maybe fascist Islam? He misled; for his dread was just _bread_. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/6 "2003-02-03T05:25:20Z")
The only thing worse than soggy bread is **december’s poetry**! ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/7 "2003-02-03T05:31:03Z")
Beat it everyone! The hyperbole police are on their way, they’ll be here any minute! ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/8 "2003-02-03T05:51:55Z")
Too late, they’re here! “Freeze punk, or I’ll pump 200 bullets into your sorry ass!” ironic that they too should use hyperbole… or do they? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/9 "2003-02-03T05:54:27Z")
Just wait 'til you’re brought before the hyperbole judge. “I sentence you to a million years in prison.” ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/10 "2003-02-03T05:56:42Z")
I dunno. I think the Khmer Rouge might be worse than soggy bread. But it’s no longer around, whereas soggy bread persists in pestering us. Alas, it can never die. Is _Moulin Rouge!_ worse than soggy bread, I wonder…oh, who knows. Perhaps soggy bread does trump all. Or perhaps this will remain one of the world’s unanswered questions. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/11 "2003-02-03T05:58:25Z")
I think we should take this to Great Debates. It’s too weighty for MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/12 "2003-02-03T06:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > **Is _Moulin Rouge!_ worse than soggy bread, I wonder** Yes it is, but just barely. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/13 "2003-02-03T06:24:27Z")
Sacrilage! Moulin Rouge is wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/14 "2003-02-03T06:29:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*I think we should take this to Great Debates. It’s too weighty for MPSIMS. \*\* Well, we’re in the Pit, so I wouldn’t worry about whether it’s too weighty to remain in MPSIMS 😉 Is forgetting what forum we’re in when we reply worse than soggy bread? I do that all the time, but rarely encounter soggy bread, so perhaps the magnitude is cancelled out by the frequency. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/15 "2003-02-03T06:50:14Z")
I have to disagree Lob…Hard cold butter on soft bread _that_ is much worse… JMO ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/16 "2003-02-03T06:54:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*Sacrilage! Moulin Rouge is wonderful! \*\* You poor deluded man. ---
**Author:** ![Madame\_Zelda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Madame\_Zelda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madame_Zelda)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/17 "2003-02-03T13:35:09Z")
If you really want to test those gag reflexes, soggy bread’s your man. And it must be COLD soggy bread - like the sandwich has been in the refrigerator for a week just mutating into some gelatinous mass that can’t quite congeal. Gag-gag-hyuck-nahhhh. Soggy bread or runny scrambled eggs. 'Scuse me…gotta find a bucket. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/18 "2003-02-03T17:01:22Z")
[And you thought soggy bread was bad…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152543) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/19 "2003-02-03T17:13:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > \*\*I must agree. S’why at work I always squeeze as much of the juice as I can off of the pickles and pepperoncinis. And if the customer says they’ll be eating it tomorrow, I’ll be sure to put the mayo and mustard between the meat and the fixins’, instead of on the bread, so the bread will last. \*\* Holy shit, a sandwich maker with intelligence and a conscience! I doff my hat to you, and hope that you may have many similar progeny. The ghastliest mess I’ve ever seen in a sandwich shop were the habits of many Chinese sandwich employees in Hong Kong. Due to differences in food culture, they didn’t really distinguish between spreads and solids, and didn’t respect the integrity of the bread’s moisture content. They would stack all the ingredients in a heap in the middle of the sandwich, with wet stuff in contact with the bread, and huge flaps of dry bread surrounding the soggy centre. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424/20 "2003-02-03T17:50:20Z")
Anyone old enough to remember when our moms packed sandwiches in waxed paper? And when on a picnic, you filled the Coleman ice chest with ice and sandwiches and the melted ice water got through the ineffective barrier of the waxed paper? Result: nauseating slop of water-soaked Wonder Bread. Mom would still try to make us eat the sandwiches anyway, on a “waste-not want-not” basis. ::hurling just at the memory of water-logged bologna sandwiches:: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-only-one-thing-more-horrible-than-hitler-saddam-osama-disease-death/152424.md?page=2)