Chemo the Clown wrote:
> 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..........

I think it is more a comment on waste. Somehow it became a tradition for
takeout places to stuff a bunch of useless fake soy sauce packets in
every bag.