I got some takeout Chinese food this week. There were
the usual packets of soy sauce and some sweet sauce
and mustard.

I have never once in my entire life added extra soy
sauce to my Chinese, or any other Asian, food! And
I can't imagine anyone else actually doing so. No
one I know does it either. I've never seen anyone
actually use the soy sauce packets.

Then there's the mustard packets which they give
you even if there's nothing in your order that calls
for mustard. I think the mustard might get a little
more use than the soy sauce, but I really can't remember
seeing anyone use that either, and I never do.

So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
Do you use the soy sauce?
Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?
Do you use the mustard?
Does anyone you know use the mustard?
Do you save the soy sauce and collect it in a bottle
at home for home use?
Ditto mustard.

I do sometimes use that sweet sauce on a few things.
It's not very good though so if I'm eating it at home
I generally just use my Thai sweet chilli sauce instead.

I guess you could include questions about the sweet
sauce. (What the heck is that stuff called, anyway? I
can't recall - is it duck sauce?)

Anyway, every time I order Chinese I say that the next
time I will ask them to hold the sauce packets. I hate
all that stuff to go to waste. But it's not that often
I do order it so I totally forget about it until the next
time I get it and open the bag and find all those soy
packets - I just want to scream! ;-)

I wonder exactly how many soy sauce packets are discarded
every year? Millions? I would say several thousand if not
several hundred thousand gallons of soy sauce poured down the
drain, as it were. What's your guess?

Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?

Kate
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