# When I want YELLOW mustard, I usually get....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 6, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630 "2014-02-06T01:10:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/1 "2014-02-06T01:10:36Z")
Poll to come.
For me, it’s usually French’s or Plochman’s.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/2 "2014-02-06T01:39:47Z")
Whatever’s at the Dollar Store. I have a 550ml bottle of Régale brand on my desk at this moment.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/3 "2014-02-06T01:42:03Z")
My vote is “Whatever’s cheapest”. I never use it on food I care about, so anything for quick flavoring is fine.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/4 "2014-02-06T01:46:15Z")
Heinz is my all time favorite yellow mustard. You can’t get it in grocery stores around here, so I had to resort to stealing the mustard bottles from restaurants. Sometimes I would even talk others into stealing it for me. Christmas 2012, **Suburban Plankton** made an honest woman of me by ordering a whole case of Heinz mustard from some restaurant supply place. Now I don’t have to steal!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/5 "2014-02-06T01:53:08Z")
I buy bargain brand yellow mustard. My daughter has a number of gourmet-brand brown and gray mustards.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/6 "2014-02-06T01:57:13Z")
There’s your problem. You want yellow mustard.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/7 "2014-02-06T01:59:39Z")
I usually get French’s, but I got confused and marked “Gulden’s” as well, because I buy their brown mustard. I just think of Grey Poupon as the brown mustard.
We sure have a lot of mustard around here.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/8 "2014-02-06T02:01:06Z")
“Pardon me. Do you have an factory-produced artificially-coloured swill?”
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/9 "2014-02-06T02:07:00Z")
Aldi’s store brand, which Google tells me is Burman’s. Only use it in egg salad, deviled eggs, potato salad and on hot dogs. Oh, and a little bit of it goes in my sloppy joes, too.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/10 "2014-02-06T02:14:14Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> “Pardon me. Do you have an factory-produced artificially-coloured swill?”
Since you opened the door for snark, please fork right off of my lawn cactus. “Factory-produced”, really? Are you Amish? In your modern life you don’t have any factory-produced products? Where was your car made? And…
Nevermind… Sorry to go off on a tear here, but jeez that’s what I hate about this place. “I’m so Above it all”. So just to be clear, there’s nothing in your pantry that has artificial color in it?
And, yes, Bryan, I get the ‘joke’ but really…
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### Author:  [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/11 "2014-02-06T02:19:40Z")
Whatever is on sale. I prefer the stoneground and spicy mustards.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/12 "2014-02-06T02:20:37Z")
Uber-cheap dollar store or Aldi brand.
It makes no difference for this kind of mustard.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/13 "2014-02-06T02:26:19Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> “Pardon me. Do you have an factory-produced artificially-coloured swill?”
Factory produced, sure, but I bet a lot of fancy mustards are produced in factories as well. As for artificially colored, here is Heinz’ ingredients list: Vinegar White Distilled, Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Mustard Bran, Turmeric, Paprika, Spice(s). Not seeing any artificial anything there.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/14 "2014-02-06T02:44:28Z")
> [@PlainJain](#):
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> Since you opened the door for snark, please fork right off of my lawn cactus.
Read the first reply in the thread, and right backatcha.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/15 "2014-02-06T03:07:07Z")
Not really a fan of plain Jane yellow mustard (as seems to be the case here), but if it’s what I’m after for some reason, it’d be French’s first, Plochman’s second, whatever’s cheapest next.
The mustard I tend to keep on hand at home is [Stadium Mustard](http://www.stadiummustard.com/), which, to be honest, is like PJYM with some character and no freaky neon-yellow artificial color.
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### Author:  [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/16 "2014-02-06T03:08:00Z")
Plochman’s, or Aldi’s if it’s an Aldi day. But, one bottle lasts a long time, maybe a year.
LawMonkey, I’ll have to look out for Stadium mustard–I’m not too far from Cleveland, so they may have it around here.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/17 "2014-02-06T03:42:34Z")
Store brand (cheapest) from whatever store I’m shopping at when I’m out of mustard.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/18 "2014-02-06T03:58:01Z")
French’s is default, then Heinz. Gulden’s I associate with brown mustard. Beaver I associate with specialty flavors, often of the taste bud searing type. I haven’t heard of the others. I know of TJ’s and I assume Annie’s is the organic brand, but I don’t know their mustards specifically. I assume Coleman’s means Colman’s (sic), the British brand, but I think I’ve only ever used their dry mustard.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/19 "2014-02-06T04:03:45Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#):
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> LawMonkey, I’ll have to look out for Stadium mustard–I’m not too far from Cleveland, so they may have it around here.
It seems to be readily available in the Ohio C-Cities (Columbus and Cincinnati; I assume it’s in Cleveland as well). Not sure how far afield the distribution ranges past that.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-want-yellow-mustard-i-usually-get/680630/20 "2014-02-06T04:06:06Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> Factory produced, sure, but I bet a lot of fancy mustards are produced in factories as well. As for artificially colored, here is Heinz’ ingredients list: Vinegar White Distilled, Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Mustard Bran, Turmeric, Paprika, Spice(s). Not seeing any artificial anything there.
It’s the turmeric that makes it that vivid yellow color.
French’s list for comparison is:
Distilled vinegar, water, #1 grade mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, spice, natural flavors and garlic powder.
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