A lot, as it turns out.
Something you may not have known about me, dear readers: I used to be a ketchup-aholic. That's right. My teen years were spent putting the sweet red stuff on nearly everything I ate - mac and cheese, chicken dishes, beef dishes, pork dishes, hot pockets, eggs, sandwiches, etc. I could not get enough of the stuff. I think the only things that I did not put it on were pizza and mashed potatoes.
That's how much I loved it. But alas, all good things have to end. After a while, ketchup and I began to grow apart. Sure, I still like it on the occasional Wendy's burger and fry box. But as the years progressed, I started to change and drift. I went through a period of experimenting with different condiments: ranch, bbq sauce, hot sauce. All were good in passing for a quick, one snack night, but none had lasting potential.
But then something happened and now it seems like I have a new sauce to love. A sauce that is tangy rather than sweet. A sauce that still stains much the same as I dribble it down my shirt in a moment of mindless fry-shoving panic.
Mustard.
I honestly never thought I would like mustard. After all, if ketchup is one of the sweetest food toppings you'll ever find, mustard was the opposite. Tangy, vinegar-y, and yellow. I thought it would never work out between us.
But then I started eating mustard over the summer. At first, it was one of those health kick things I get from time to time. 'Mustard cleans you out', 'mustard helps you lose weight', etc. Naturally I felt the need to try something that would help me lose weight and clean out my system.
I never expected to love the taste as much as I did.
Now I put mustard on nearly everything, much like I did ketchup all those years. I like the fact that mustard is tangy and adds kind of a kick to everything from sandwiches to eggs. I especially like the spicy mustard with the bits in it. Plain spicy is good too, but the spicy deli stuff is my favorite. It makes a Subway sandwich for me.
It's kind of like banana peppers. I started eating those because eating spicy helps clean you out and gets your metabolism going - aka, you lose weight. Now I can't have a Subway sub without them and the spicy mustard.
What a world this is coming to. Oh well, at least it's tasty and good, right?
~Meaghan
Monday, December 27, 2010
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