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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“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
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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..........

Kate,

Simmer down woman!

All this talk about surveys and mustard will certainly raise some eyebrows
over at the rfc cabal (TINC).

Tred softly.

Andy

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.

>
> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
> Do you use the soy sauce?

No, we use a less salty, better flavored Tamari sauce

> Do you use the mustard?
Not usually

> Does anyone you know use the mustard?
No.

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

No
> Ditto mustard.
No

> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?
>


I take it in to work where they occasionally bring in Chinese takeout
and use some of the packets. The guys actually use a LOT more hot sauce
than Asian condiments.

gloria p

On Jul 10, 12:23*pm, Kate Connally > wrote:


> Do you use the soy sauce?
No

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?
Yes. Some people insist that it goes on white rice!

> Do you use the mustard?
I think we only get it with BBQ duck, in which case I may use it.

> Does anyone you know use the mustard?
See above

> Do you save the soy sauce and collect it in a bottle
> at home for home use?
God no! It is nowhere good enough to use for real cooking.

> Ditto mustard.
No, it's not worth the effort.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

Gloria wrote on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:23 -0600:

> 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.

>> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
>> Do you use the soy sauce?

> No, we use a less salty, better flavored Tamari sauce

>> Do you use the mustard?
> Not usually

>> Does anyone you know use the mustard?
> No.

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

> No
>> Ditto mustard.
> No

>> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?
>>
> I take it in to work where they occasionally bring in Chinese takeout
> and use some of the packets. The guys actually use a LOT more hot
> sauce than Asian condiments.

I tend to keep a supply of salt and pepper packets. Soy sauce and
mustard are also worth saving but don't last very long and the soy sauce
is often something strange like La Choy.
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> >> Do you save the soy sauce and collect it in a bottle
> >> at home for home use?
>
> > No
> >> Ditto mustard.
> > No
>
> >> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?
> >>
> > I take it in to work where they occasionally bring in Chinese takeout
> > and use some of the packets. The guys actually use a LOT more hot
> > sauce than Asian condiments.
>
> I tend to keep a supply of salt and pepper packets. Soy sauce and
> mustard are also worth saving but don't last very long and the soy sauce
> is often something strange like La Choy.
> --
>
> James Silverton

I find the local soy sauce packets (panda brand) around here to be
nasty. They are basically nothing more than colored salt water. No
flavor.

Mustard, ketchup, picante and mayo packets, those I do keep as they are
useful.

So is taco bell sauce. ;-d

Ditto for any marinara dipping sauce thingies.
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It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:25 -0500, Andy wrote:

> Kate,
>
> Simmer down woman!
>
> All this talk about surveys and mustard will certainly raise some eyebrows
> over at the rfc cabal (TINC).
>
> Tred softly.
>
> Andy

well, andy, you can use them on your breakfast and give us a full report.

blake

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.

We get Chinese food each Thursday. I got the Cashew Chicken one time.
It was rather odd. It was essentially fried chicken nuggets, with a
sort of thick chicken gravy and cashews. Not very "Chinesy" at all. I
did add a couple of packets of soy sauce that time.




Brian

--
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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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blake murphy said...

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:25 -0500, Andy wrote:
>
>> Kate,
>>
>> Simmer down woman!
>>
>> All this talk about surveys and mustard will certainly raise some
>> eyebrows over at the rfc cabal (TINC).
>>
>> Tred softly.
>>
>> Andy
>
> well, andy, you can use them on your breakfast and give us a full
> report.


Your problem, murphy, the world doesn't care about you or what you think.

No big surprise.

Andy


--
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--Sid the Sloth, "Ice Age: The Meltdown"

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:00 -0400, Kate Connally >
wrote:

>So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
>Do you use the soy sauce?

The chinese place we order from doesn't include soy sauce packages,
and they certainly don't include mustard. They assume we have a
bottle of soy at home. I have no idea what I'd use the mustard on.
We get fortune cookies.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:00 -0400, Kate Connally wrote:

> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
> Do you use the soy sauce?

It's usually hydrolyzed soy protein, not soy sauce. And even if it
were real, I don't use it. I don't even use soy sauce in my Chinese
cooking.

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?

Half of them.

> Do you use the mustard?

Nope.

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

Taco Bell Sauce, yes. And I'd collect Arby's sauce, too, if they
didn't start hiding it behind the counter. But nothing else.

-sw

Kate Connally wrote:

> Do you use the soy sauce?

Yes, to dip my eggroll. Maybe on the rice once in a while. I
don't usually eat the rice, so it's pretty rare I use the soy sauce
for that.

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?
> Do you use the mustard?
> Does anyone you know use the mustard?

Yes, for the eggroll.

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

For some reason they accumulate in the refrigerator
sometimes. It wouldn't occur to me to empty them into a
container.

> Ditto mustard.
>
> I do sometimes use that sweet sauce on a few things.

I never touch the stuff.

> 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?)

I thought it was duck sauce. Doesn't look like something I'd
be interested in putting in my chicken and broccoli.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:
> Kate Connally wrote:
>>
>> I do sometimes use that sweet sauce on a few things.
>
> I never touch the stuff.
>> 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?)
>
> I thought it was duck sauce. Doesn't look like something I'd
> be interested in putting in my chicken and broccoli.
> nancy



I've always heard it called Duck Sauce or Plum Sauce.
It's kind of sweet and sour. We use it when we eat in
an Asian restaurant for eggrolls, spring rolls, and
other crispy things like wontons. My husband
mixes it with mustard on his plate before using.

gloria p

Gloria P wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>> Kate Connally wrote:
>>>
>>> I do sometimes use that sweet sauce on a few things.
>>
>> I never touch the stuff.
>>> 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?)
>>
>> I thought it was duck sauce. Doesn't look like something I'd
>> be interested in putting in my chicken and broccoli.

> I've always heard it called Duck Sauce or Plum Sauce.
> It's kind of sweet and sour. We use it when we eat in
> an Asian restaurant for eggrolls, spring rolls, and
> other crispy things like wontons. My husband
> mixes it with mustard on his plate before using.

I think I've seen that. Sweet and sour isn't a flavor I care for,
so I haven't been tempted to try it, myself.

I can see it as a dipping sauce.

nancy

Default User wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> We get Chinese food each Thursday. I got the Cashew Chicken one time.
> It was rather odd. It was essentially fried chicken nuggets, with a
> sort of thick chicken gravy and cashews. Not very "Chinesy" at all. I
> did add a couple of packets of soy sauce that time.

Back when i actually worked for a living, and routinely ate lunch from a
"Chinese to go" place i would, often as not, get an order of plain
steamed rice and one of their meats, dry fried pork or their nice
breaded shrimp or their ginger chicken and always put the packet of soy
sauce over the rice and then mix that up with the meat.

Im very fond of the CHinese hot mustard and have been know to hoard the
small packets, going so far as to take them out of the trash when they
have been thrown away by other co workers and hoarding a small stash at
home

Now i don't work, have more time at home and make my own "Chinese" spicy
hot mustard.
--

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Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
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Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. said...

> Now i don't work, have more time at home and make my own "Chinese" spicy
> hot mustard.


JL,

http://i38.tinypic.com/t0gv2d.jpg

Let me declare up front, I'm NOT a sadist. Great stuff, best used in miiscule
amounts.

AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Andy

On Jul 10, 11:23*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?

I never use the packets because I almost never order take out/
delivery. BUT when I'm in the restauarant I invariably add some from
the table to the rice and if I do t.o./d I use my own choice from my
own kitchen. I even add soy sauce (at the table) to stuff I've cooked
myself! I have a sodium problem ;-)

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?

Who knows? I live alone!

> Do you use the mustard?

Same for mustard with eggrolls. wontons, wings etc. If it's not on the
restaurant table I ask for it and I keep a jar in the fridge at home.
Am always mad if the restaurant brings packets. If I ever go back I
bring my own.

> Does anyone you know use the mustard?
See above.

> Do you save the soy sauce and collect it in a bottle
> at home for home use?
>
Yes, for "emergencies" but it always gets pushed to the back of a
drawer and dries up.
>
> 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.
>
Too much garlic!
>
> 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?)
>
Around here it's called "that sweet red stuff" of "Chinese Catsup".
>
> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?
>
Come to think of it, no.
Lynn in Fargo ;-)

> Kate
> --
> Kate Connally
> “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
> Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
> Until you bite their heads off.”
> What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?
>

Woops!!!

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"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
...
>
> 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?

Yes for eggrolls

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

I save it to use when cooking, but I don't put it in a bottle.

>
> 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?)

also use for eggrolls

Robert

Kate Connally > wrote in news:h37pt5$hfa$1
@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:

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


Up to this point in time, I have *never* been given packets of sauce with
any Chinese takeout. I just don't think it happens here in Oz. Our Chinese
food is tasty enough without needing to add extra seasoning.


We do, however, get packet soy sauce with takeout sushi, along with wasabi
packets.


>
> I have never once in my entire life added extra soy
> sauce to my Chinese, or any other Asian, food!


If you need to add extra falouving to your Chinese takeout, you need to
find a new Chinese joint.



> 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.


[Shaking head......] *Mustard* with Chinese food??

Maybe on a hotdog, or a sandwich......


>
> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
> Do you use the soy sauce?


On sushi, yes.


And the damn packets are small, and hard to open, so you invariably end up
spilling some where you don't really want it.

--
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Brisbane
Australia

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The soy sauce packets were get are Panda. Check the ingredients, it is
water, salt, caramel color, corn syrup and hydrolyzed vegetable
protein. Not a drop of soy sauce in the packet.


Becca

Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> Kate Connally > wrote:
>
> > Do you use the soy sauce?
>
> Yes. On the rice. With sugar.

You are a heathen, an infidel, a pagan, a vandal and a barbarian!

Bubba

Kate Connally wrote:
>
> 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.
>

We consider it indispensable on our little island for any type of fast
food. If I order a take-out breakfast of eggs and rice from McDonald's
or Jack in the Box, you better have a packet of shoyu in the bag or
you're likely to see my ugly mug again. McDonald's uses Kikkoman, JITB
uses it's own branded packets. The hot mustard from Chinese take out
comes in little plastic cups, usually mixed with some shoyu. Packets of
Chinese hot mustard just don't cut the errr... mustard.

Most homes here have a bottle of shoyu - we don't milk packets into
bottles. That would be considered more than a little nutty.

In article >,
PeterL > wrote:

> Kate Connally > wrote in news:h37pt5$hfa$1
> @usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:

> > So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
> > Do you use the soy sauce?
>
>
> On sushi, yes.
>
>
> And the damn packets are small, and hard to open, so you invariably end up
> spilling some where you don't really want it.

One sushi place here gives out little fish-shaped bottles of soy sauce
instead of the sachets. MUCH cleaner to use, and I keep the bottles.

Miche

--
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Miche > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> PeterL > wrote:
>
>> Kate Connally > wrote in news:h37pt5$hfa$1
>> @usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:
>
>> > So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
>> > Do you use the soy sauce?
>>
>>
>> On sushi, yes.
>>
>>
>> And the damn packets are small, and hard to open, so you invariably end
>> up spilling some where you don't really want it.
>
> One sushi place here gives out little fish-shaped bottles of soy sauce
> instead of the sachets.


If *only* someone over here would bring in stuff like that!!

It'd save soy sauce stains on shirts, pants etc.



> MUCH cleaner to use, and I keep the bottles.
>


Do you put little ships in them??? ;-P




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Australia

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In article >,
Becca > wrote:

> The soy sauce packets were get are Panda. Check the ingredients, it is
> water, salt, caramel color, corn syrup and hydrolyzed vegetable
> protein. Not a drop of soy sauce in the packet.
>
>
> Becca

Same as around here.
A waste of space. NO flavor whatsoever...
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It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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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.


Dumping a bunch of soy sauce on a dish is an insult to the cook.

They keep a bucket of them there for some folks who seem to need to dump
them on everything. Its pretty useless trying to use them for anything
else because they are typically the fake brown salt water soy sauce. If
I should happen to get them I just toss them.

I only know one person who will dump a couple packets on everything.

>
> 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.

I sometimes like the mustard but it usually isn't hot enough. I keep a
can of the powder on the shelf and just mix some up when I have a taste
for it.

>
> 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! ;-)


The really good local mom & pop place won't stuff them in the bag unless
you explicitly ask. So there is less to carry and less waste because I
would just toss them.

>
> 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

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.

> Really - does *anyone* use that stuff?

I don't add soy sauce to anything. But I work in a china express
inside a grocery store. We only give out packets to those who ask, and
we get some requests for mustard and hot oil, and a LOT of requests
for soy sauce. And multiple packets. I've had people ask for 4 packets
for a single plate of food.

So, I would have to say that a lot of people do use the packets.

Default User wrote:
> 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.
>
> We get Chinese food each Thursday. I got the Cashew Chicken one time.
> It was rather odd. It was essentially fried chicken nuggets, with a
> sort of thick chicken gravy and cashews. Not very "Chinesy" at all. I
> did add a couple of packets of soy sauce that time.
>
>
>
>
> Brian
>

I had a similar experience. I was working in an unfamiliar area and
wanted a quick lunch and basically was served chicken nuggets with big
box industrial pink sweet goo sauce.

I'am really starting to believe that some of the Chinese places look at
the applebees menu and try to copy it.

Becca wrote:
> The soy sauce packets were get are Panda. Check the ingredients, it is
> water, salt, caramel color, corn syrup and hydrolyzed vegetable
> protein. Not a drop of soy sauce in the packet.
>
>
> Becca

Yes, the only places I know that include real soy sauce are usually the
ones that assemble the plastic bento style take out. I simply toss the
fake soy sauce or if I see them putting it in the bag I ask them to
leave it out.

In article >,
(Victor Sack) wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
> > Kate Connally > wrote:
> >
> > > Do you use the soy sauce?
> >
> > Yes. On the rice. With sugar.
>
> You are a heathen, an infidel, a pagan, a vandal and a barbarian!
>
> Bubba

Like that's new, Bubba Vic. Like that's news. Pffttgghhbtt. The
resulting sweet-salty taste isn't really far off from Tendon (Japanese
dish) sauce. I pooh-poohed it for years, chiding Rob about as you have
chided me. I'd sneak it on the side. "-)
--
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:00 -0400, Kate Connally >
wrote:

>
>So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
>Do you use the soy sauce?

>Do you use the mustard?

I use the mustard for dipping egg rolls and wings. I take the
packets of soy sauce and mustard to school to doctor up the once in a
blue moon school lunch.
>
>
>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?)

I throw the duck sauce packets in the junk / condiment drawer. When
they have piled up and I am sick of looking at them, I mix the duck
sauce with soy sauce for a chicken marinade.

Tara

Kate Connally wrote:

> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
> Do you use the soy sauce?

About half the time.

> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?

Since I know myself, that would be a yes.

> Do you use the mustard?

Only if I have eggrolls, which I like dipped into sweet-and-sour and hot
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?

No, but sometimes I keep the packets and use them if I'm having rice for
lunch or something.

> Ditto mustard.

Ditto.

Serene
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"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
...
> Kate Connally wrote:
>
>> So, I would be curious to see a survey about this.
>> Do you use the soy sauce?
>
> About half the time.
>
>> Does anyone you know use the soy sauce?
>
> Since I know myself, that would be a yes.
>
>> Do you use the mustard?
>
> Only if I have eggrolls, which I like dipped into sweet-and-sour and hot
> 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?
>
> No, but sometimes I keep the packets and use them if I'm having rice for
> lunch or something.
>
>> Ditto mustard.
>
> Ditto.
>
Japanese call soy; shoyu. it's a fermented product. here in the u.k. most
Japanese consider what passes as soy sold in the shops to be a chemical
concoction that is not in any way the same as their fermented product.

> Serene

Chemiker wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:37:08 -0500, Becca > wrote:
>
>> The soy sauce packets were get are Panda. Check the ingredients, it is
>> water, salt, caramel color, corn syrup and hydrolyzed vegetable
>> protein. Not a drop of soy sauce in the packet.
>>
>
> I recall an article about soy sauce mfrs complaining that La Choy and
> at least one other brand were not *true* soy sauces at all. Apparently
> they use something like Textured Vegetable Protein (or soy meal) as
> a raw material and ferment that rather than the soybeans themselves.
> ((singing) "Where has all the flavor gone??)

The fake soy sauces (la choy, usual takeout serving size packets etc)
are not fermented. If it contains "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" it is
fake. My primary objection is it doesn't taste like soy sauce. Secondary
is what is in the better living through chemistry version.

I like Pearl River Bridge.


>
> I don't use La Choy or Kikkoman or Lee *** Kee at all. I use Taiwanese
> soy, like WanJaShan or New Horizon, when I need to use dark soy. I
> think they taste better than LC, K or LCK sauce. Unfortunately, I have
> a difficult timefinding a good light (not lite, not dark) soy sauce.
> Seems Kikkoman is the only brand I've been able to find so far.

Kikkoman is brewed. The US product is made in Wisconsin.

>
> Alex, thinking that La Choy and the like should be labled
> "Soy-lent Black". It would be more accurate.

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:57:10 +0200, Victor Sack wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
>> Kate Connally > wrote:
>>
>>> Do you use the soy sauce?
>>
>> Yes. On the rice. With sugar.
>
> You are a heathen, an infidel, a pagan, a vandal and a barbarian!
>
> Bubba

but a sweet-tempered barbarian. that should count for something.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:51:16 -0400, George wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> In article >,
>> (Victor Sack) wrote:
>>
>>> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kate Connally > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you use the soy sauce?
>>>> Yes. On the rice. With sugar.
>>> You are a heathen, an infidel, a pagan, a vandal and a barbarian!
>>>
>>> Bubba
>>
>> Like that's new, Bubba Vic. Like that's news. Pffttgghhbtt. The
>> resulting sweet-salty taste isn't really far off from Tendon (Japanese
>> dish) sauce. I pooh-poohed it for years, chiding Rob about as you have
>> chided me. I'd sneak it on the side. "-)
>
> I think the comment might be more related to the fake soy sauce packets.

most often the soy sauce is pretty bad, while the mustard varies.

your pal,
blake