In article >,
Serene Vannoy > wrote:

> Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > ObMustard: My wife hates mustard. Everybody else in my family likes
> > it. It's just never been a problem. People add mustard at the table.
>
> My first wife hated it, too, but I didn't know that. When we were
> dating, I made her lunch to take to work, including a sandwich from some
> stuff that was in her fridge, including mustard. She came home at lunch
> time and fixed herself some food, and I asked her what was up. Turns out
> she loathes mustard. I asked her why she (who lived alone) had it in
> her fridge. It was there from a previous houseguest who'd gone out and
> bought some because she didn't keep it on hand. :-)

Long before we were married, my wife and I went to visit her parents.
Her mother fixed some sandwiches. I asked about mustard. My wife was
sure that there wasn't any. Her mother thought there *might* be. My
wife and I went in the house to look in the refrig. Sure enough, there
was a tiny jar. My wife told me to check it. It looked fine and
smelled fine. It looked like maybe it had been used once. Everything
was fine. Afterwards, my wife turned the jar upside down to look at the
date stamped on the bottom. It had expired ten years ago!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"Dan Abel = Duplicitous NetKKKop [WAS: DK StinKin' MOTHER****ER]"
(subject of post on rec.food.cooking dated April 15, 2009}