On Jul 10, 9:23*am, Kate Connally > wrote:
> 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

Does anyone really care? God...the things people want to know..........