I chose the title of this post in response to shimmeringjemmy‘s last post. (Please note it’s filtered, so many of you may not get that joke)
Well, I’m definitely married. Today I got to face something my wife does that I will have to get used to. She asked me to make her a roast beef sandwich. She asked for it on multi-grain bread, with pepper-jack white cheese… and Mayonaise!!!
Aiiigh!!!!
Okay, I am not actively practicing Judaism, but this is hundreds… no thousands of years of culture and tradition.
It’s very simple:
Mayo goes on turkey
Ketchup goes on Roast Beef
and
Mustard goes on Ham. (um… if we were to eat ham… tra-la-la, nothing-nothing-nothing;… nothing to see, move along.
Okay, I’ll admit it… I already let one Scot introduce me to the Eeeeevuullllss of mustard on roast beast.
But there are limits…
Mayo on Roast Beef? No, no… no, no-no-no.
I must edjumicate her 😉
(Have I mentioned how much in love I am :?)
Edit
I should know better than to post: This is the way of the world. It always results in long threads.
Come on people, You must learn to put a proper condiment on a proper meat in the proper meal!
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says he who eats mayo on french fries.
Hey!
Blame that on the Dutch!
But, yes.. Guilty as charged 😉
Sorry man, but mayo and hot sauce go on roast beef. Or maybe horseradish which I would not mix with ketchup unlesss making shrimp sauce.
So there ya go.
horseradsh.. hmmn..
that sounds interesting. I’d try that.
but mayo? not on RB. I just can’t do it.
Hee! You said “edjumicate”!
Had no choice
That’s the way that I was learn’d it.
According to my wife (), mustard goes on pastrami, corned beef, or tongue.
Oooh, she’s good!
We’re talking a four-alarm-deli-frequenter here.
Listen up folks.. She’s a professional. This woman knows were to find good Borscht!
🙂
Admittedly, I have never liked any of those meats.
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Find good borscht? Find?!? Never!!! I *make* good borscht, from scratch. Yup, and schav and kasha and chopped liver (regular and taste-alike vegan) and kugel (at least 5 kinds) and matzo balls for the from-scratch chicken soup. I haven’t yet been able to figure out how to re-create grandma’s gefilte fish, or I’d make that, too. Oh, yeah, and I bake my own mandelbrodt, challah and all the Passover sweets for my house (and the Seder I host), too. It may help that this is “in the blood” – one set of grandparents owned a deli back east, and the other grandmother and great-grandmother catered (including the baking for) large kosher dinners and teas for various and sundry organizations.
And the tradition passes on – my 9 year old daughter is becoming quite the confectioner! (Ooooh, my poor waistline…sob, sob…)
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Imitates Wayne and Garth….
We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!
Matzoh ball soup… MMMMmmmmmm 😀
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According to (my wife), she says you sound interesting. If you want to try a deli tour of LA (we’re in the valley), drop me an email at faigin -at cahighways.org with your phone#, and we’ll talk. Who knows… you and your wife might get added to the circle we cook for/potluck with.
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can I come over for dinner? I’m a hungry shiksa.
It could be worse…
In two words… “miracle whip”
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To be honest, as points out… I have a penchant for using mayo on fries. In fact fritesaus (I think that’s the spelling) is a topping about halfway between helmann’s mayo and M.W.
It’s actually quite good. Despite the weirdness factor to everyone.
You also forgot:
Mustard goes on corned beef, and pastrami.
Turkey can also get Russian Dressing, which is Mayo PLUS STUFF.
Ham is the only meat that can be eaten with cheese.
There are RULES, DAMMIT.
(and one of them is that Ketchup goes on Fries. Freak.)
Amen sista! Testify!
See, now here is what an upbringing in Canarsie is for. It teaches you proper meat etiquette.
BUT!
Dr. Browns has one and only one soda worth drinking. It is Vanilla Cream.
Celery Soda? And I’m a Freak? 😉
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That’s Cel-Ray! Cel-Ray!
It’s teh best!
Freakish husband o mine who thinks Stuart’s is the drink of choice. New Jersey soda!? The horror.
Stuarts??!?!
AIIIGH! That’s almost grounds for divorce.
You must help the poor lad. It’s a moral imperative. (At least he doesn’t call it pop)
He just came by and said he said no such thing about Stuart’s, but I think he is delusional or just forgetful.
Still, he must be edumicated in all things Dr. Brown’s.
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Actually, in addition to Vanilla Cream, the Black Cherry is quite good.
Ham is the only meat that can be eaten with cheese.
Nonsense. Any meat can be eaten with cheese, and the more the merrier!
You know, speaking as a recovering Jew myself, I have to say that I’m shocked. Everyone knows that mayo is strictly for the goyim and mustard goes on everything. Sheesh. 🙂
Well, yes There is that.
But I think that’s more Orthodox Dining.
I was raised in more of a Hassidic, Reformed Conservadox household.
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Whereas I was raised in more of a Deconstructionist household.
By the by, as I don’t think I’ve said it yet, congrats on the legal and spiritual joining. I hope the wedded bliss continues until time stops and the universe goes on to find something more interesting to do.
I still don’t understand why someone would put chocolate syrup on chocolate ice cream. It’s too much of one flavor. It’s too much of one flavor. Now strawberry syrup on chocolate ice cream is good, and chocolate syrup on strawberry ice cream is good…
Now that’s a whole other ball of wax.
Vanilla ice cream goes with chocolate syrup or hot fudge
Chocolate ice cream goes with marshmallow fluff
Strawberry ice cream goes by itself, because it is the perfect ice cream and does not need anything else.
Marshmallow fluff is evil, though!
But I agree about the strawberry.
Of course, if it’s chocolate syrup….
It has to be u-bet 🙂
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U-Bet!!!
The only syrup for ice cream and egg creams!
Well they are really two different *kinds* of chocolate aren’t they?! Mmmm, chocolate. Add chocolate sprinkles, some mashed oreos and that sounds good.
That made me laugh 🙂
As long as it’s not catsup (or ketchup.. whichever) I’m easy. Just say NO to the Smooth Red Food Group.
Ketchup Sucks!
Ketchup Sucks!
Ketchup Sucks!
Mayo AND mustard with Roast Beast!
I think mayo is gross. I recall a ghost story of my youth , starring mysterious jars of mayo showing up in a refridgerator, and finally the heroine of the story catching her dead husband oozing pus into jars and putting them into the fridge. If it comes on a sandwich, I use the pickles or a napkin to scrape it off. Except on artichokes. then it’s necessary.
MMMM…
Mayo and roast beef go so WELL together! I love to eat it that way. 🙂
turkey — hot mustard!
Roast Beef — hot mustard!
ham — hot mustard!
balogne — hot mustard!
blt — hot mustard!
and add pepperjack to any of the above.
I don’t use any condiments on anything. (Note: anything normally served on ice cream does not count as a condiment.)
I’ll eat cheese with anything.