In article >,
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?

Yes. On the rice. With sugar.

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?

Yes.

> Do you save the soy sauce and collect it in a bottle
> at home for home use?

No; that would be something my neighbor would do.

> 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?

Lots.

> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?

Yes. See above.

> Kate
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