First World Problems

[Dingfod]

Lots of hot dogs, and six packs of pickle relish.

[ImGod]

The biggest ketchemup user in our house is the homemade baked beans.

1-1/2 cups in this recipe

mmmmm beans

[Ensign Steve]

Yeah, make some meatloaf and stuff. They take ketchup inside and on top.

[Dingfod]

FWP: When I was at the supermarket, the customer in front of me and the cashier apparently have some sort of relationship or are good friends or neighbors. I could tell because they spent long enough chatting that it negated the advantage to my choosing to utilize the express lane rather than a regular one.

[Janet]

I used to use it in my baked beans but now I buy tubes of tomato paste and use that instead. Just last night I spotted an old bottle of ketchup in the fridge and wondered if it was time to throw it out.

[Dingfod]

Is it mouldy or off-color? Yes, throw it out. If the vinegar has separated, that ketchup (catsup) might still be good after being shaken, not stirred.

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

Tacos and ketchup maybe when mixed with sriracha sauce.

Are these Asian fusion tacos?

[Dingfod]

Amexasiaco tacos.

[Dingfod]

BTW, sriracha sauce is great on tacos, better than Cholula.

[lisarea]

Tapatio.

[Dingfod]

Well, there's that.

[Dingfod]

I want to eat some more good Thanksgiving foodstuffs, but I am too full.

[curses]

I wanted to have assorted Thanksgiving foods today but I had to work. People need their overpriced and high calorie coffee drinks 365 days a year. Then I had to ruin someone else's Thanksgiving by eating at WaHo tonight because I was too damn tired to cook.

[BrotherMan]

I can sort of tolerate a world that can use a Waffle House open for Thanksgiving. I'm kind of baffled why a Starbucks needs to be open. I didn't go out looking but I bet if the Safeway was open then the Starbucks embedded there was as well.

There were a lot of people out and about today. More than there has been in previous years. At least at the times I was going to and from the feastivities.

[One for Sorrow]

I'm at the airport for my 5:30 am shift, but the first flights don't come in until 8:00, so I'm getting paid to do fuck all.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by One for Sorrow

I'm at the airport for my 5:30 am shift, but the first flights don't come in until 8:00, so I'm getting paid to post at

[erimir]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Tapatio.

Is there a specific kind of Tapatio that's really good?

Because the regular kind I've had at restaurants seemed pretty... unremarkable. Moderately spicy but otherwise boring. I don't remember it tasting that different from Louisiana-style (i.e. Tabasco, Texas Pete, etc.). Maybe I don't remember it properly and I should give it another try. I mean, I doubt I'll decide it's great since that probably would've happened when I had it before, but at least I'll be able to accurately descibe it. That could be it, or maybe you just like boring Californian hot sauce.

I like Valentina, Chipotle Tabasco and, if I want it really spicy, El Yucateco. Cholula's pretty good too.

Also, Valentina, Cholula and El Yucateco are all based in Mexico.

[lisarea]

As far as I know, there's only the one kind of Tapatio.

I like those others OK, but Tapatio is my default hot sauce for things where I am mostly looking for a little bit of heat without too much sweetness or vinegar, especially if I want it to stick a little bit, which is especially important for tacos and I assume why Dingle uses Sriracha. A lot of sauces are just too watery for that. Not insignificantly, it's like $2.38 or something for the big bottle and it has that guy on the label.

So in a nutshell, Sriracha is for Asian and middle eastern food plus rotisserie chickens, Tapatio is for tacos and burritos, and I have a rotating selection of other sauces for things like macaroni and cheese or whatever.

[Sock Puppet]

Tapatio always tastes too vinegary to me (although it's a million percent better than Tabasco). Cholula is way better for a basic taco hot sauce. Pico Pica if you prefer a more dried-pepper taste (my cousin says it tastes like "dirt" to her, but I wonder if that's just psychological from the dark brown color). Also, Pico Pica has a stickiness quotient similar to Sriracha's.

But yeah, the dollar store here has big-assed bottles of Tapatio for like two bucks or something.

[Ensign Steve]

I wish it would stop raining so we could put up our Christmas lights. Yeah I know we're in a drought, I still hate the rain. That's why I live here!

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by erimir

El Yucateco.

I'm not making this first world problem up, despite it probably seeming too convenient: I needed to restock my Tapatio the other day, but they're reorganizing the whole store, and all the Tapatio was in the middle of reshelving, so I got the El Yucateco instead. I'm pretty sure I'd had it before, but I don't remember liking it this much.

I really wanted to fight you on this, too.

I still endorse Tapatio, though, as a good, inexpensive general purpose hot sauce, and as a good place to see a picture of a cool guy; and I am still going to get a new bottle once it's back on the shelves.

[erimir]

"I wanted to fight someone about hot sauce, but the hot sauce they recommended is actually good" is a good first-world problem.

[Ensign Steve]

The theme for the fancy holiday party that I'm going to tomorrow night in downtown SF is "Hollywood". Fucking why?!

[Sock Puppet]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Also, Pico Pica has a stickiness quotient similar to Sriracha's.

Oh, this was a filthy lie. It's definitely stickier than the others mentioned, but it's maybe halfway to Sriracha stickiness, if that.

I know how important hot sauce accuracy is to all of you.

[Dingfod]

I'm not that picky, I use Taco Bell taco sauce on my tacos most of the time, it's neither sticky nor very spicy hot. I didn't have any, so I used sriracha sauce the last time, and it was good good good.