Favorite Condiments
 

Who here has favorite condiments from fast food chains or other restaurants.

My favorites are:

Cajun Sparkle - Popeyes. It's just a powder with salt, garlic, and spices, but I like the foil packets. If I had my way all salt and pepper packets would disappear and be replaced by this stuff.

Horsey Sauce - Arbys.

Hot Picante Sauce - McDonalds - Authentic NOT!, but spicy and fantastic on eggs.

Mini peppers - In and Out Burger. My one and only time at In and Out Burger they had clear plastic packets with two tiny hot peppers in each. Genius.

Verde Sauce - Taco Bell. Green and mean.

Other than that, Heinz ketchup - most chains.

What are your favorites?

My favorite condiments are all NON fast-food.

Cholula sauce, salsa, verde salsa, Chinese hot mustard, horse radish, sesame oil, big daddy's BBQ sauce and other mustard varieties.

Lee and Perrin's Worcestershire sauce. Great with practically everything.

Also, love tatare sauce with fish, but no fave brand.

+1 to Worcestershire - and must be Lee and Perrin's. I've tried other brands in an attempt to economize, but none taste like Lee and Perrin's.

Lawry's Seasoned Salt is the same way. Nobody matches it.

The yellow kind. Lubricated and with thousands of tiny fingers urging you to let go...

You mean like Musquirt?

I told you once, that never has happened before. Can we drop it?

It's OK. I see it all the time. I have that effect, at first. ;)

Holy crap, wtf are you people using with your food??

Tobasco brand Chipotle sauce is high on my list right now.

home made mayo
or some good grainy Hot deli mustard

I am a simple person.

I like Ketchup.

Heinz.

I have a collection of Chic-Fil-A packets that I pack in my lunch. Actually, I love their new packet, which is a squirt or dip container.

And I like the Taco Bell Fiery sauce, but only use it on Taco Bell Products.

I tried one of those. It's great. Each one is the equivalent of 3 normal packets.

I also love TB fiery sauce, but the new green sauce has a more complex flavor.

In my family, grated cheese appears to be the favorite. Followed by Heinz Ketchup and Chocolate Syrup.

ketchup, of course. And honey from KFC

May I include the ones I don't like? Ok.

- that fake "parmesan cheese" stuff from pizza places in the little packets and also stocked in the tube cans that says "parmesan STYLE topping"
- that fake "butter" stuff from KFC

Unless they've upgraded recently, KFC's "honey" isn't. It's "Honey Sauce," and is half HFCS and doesn't taste much of honey at all. Genuine honey would taste better on their nice biscuits.

Cholula hot sauce is all over the place here, backed up with Tabasco likewise. The Café Rio chain has a fistful of bottled sauces including Búfalo chipotle for that smoky flavor.

Fake butter is one of the reasons I never eat in at KFC. Drive through, and bring my two piece all white meat with taters and gravy and cole slaw home.

Oh yeah, and an extra half-dozen biscuits, because I always want more than one with the dinner, and they are great toasted for breakfast. I always have real butter in the fridge, and real honey on the counter.

I had no idea they had fake honey sauce. Never occurred to me to ask. McDonalds used to give you real honey with your McNuggets. Do they still do that? I haven't bought McNuggets in at least 10 years, so I don't know what they come with.

KFC WTF?
All you get here is ketchup or BBQ sauce (perhaps curry too, I haven't asked but McDonalds do it). AND it comes in packets, not pots, so is useless for dipping.

I am a bit of a condiment fan, but rather than list all of them I will just tell you my favourite.
Vinegar.
It goes well with so many things, and is the basis of many of my other condiment likes.
Chips, chicken, peas, mashed potatoes - all improved by vinegar.

I was horrifed when I first went to Chiquitos (Mexican-style chain restaurant) and was told they had no vinegar. They eventually tracked some down for me, but it was in an industrustrial sized container, so they put it in a little saucer. I took my own after that - it's that important to me.

ETA - thanks everyone. In my curiousity to find our what "our" McDonalds serve as dips, I logged onto their website.
Only to find two new special burgers that sound bloody YUMMY.
This is bad news as I am on a diet. But I accept that is perhaps the only reason why my mouth is watering over McDonalds.

FTR BCO - Bacon, Chicken & Onion with black pepper cheese & seasoned mayo
Summer Chorizo Supreme - burger with Sunblush tomato sauce, Batavia lettuce, chorizo, cheese slices made with Emmental,
all in a sesame & chive topped bun

Anyway, back to the topic in hand:
McD's dips:
BBQ, Heinz ketchup, sour cream & chive, sweet & sour, sweet chilli, curry.
No honey. No fake butter (!)

Although they do do real butter for the English muffins at breakfast (Country Life English butter) or Flora (polyunsaturated margarine). And pots of Philedelphia Light for the bagels. And jam for the porridge.... and brown sauce for the bacon rolls.... I'd better stop there.

Brits eating chorizo! Wow! Try it frizzled up a bit in the pan first, and then scramble eggs into it. Tends unfortunately to be greasy, but draining the chorizo is still an option.

British McD's have bacon rolls???

I can buy chorizo in my local village shop. It's not rare round these parts. It's not great....but it's not rare.


Certainly do!

How's this for a very british looking McD's:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...44_468x388.jpg

Oh, and here's some condiment related funny:p

We have quite a varied breakfast menu including bagels, fruit and porridge
Thank you for the McMuffins. Gorgeous.

But yes, you can buy a bacon roll with proper brown sauce at McDonalds.
It's the only time Mum will eat one out, because it's all shaped & trimmed & stuff. She will only eat her bacon with no visible fat, unless it is crisped to buggery. She loves American bacon, obviously.

Then again we also have a Deli range, Mini-Tasters wraps, and salads, fruit bags and carrot sticks. I know all this from browsing for you the other day. YOU. Your fault. I walked past it today and salivated at the BCO poster in the window. Mmmmm, have to go and have my lunchtime nutritional shake now :yelsick:

Yes, UG, we discovered chorizo a while back.
We're a lickle bit closer to mainland Europe than we pretend :)
I'm cooking a version of paella tomorrow for Sunday lunch. No chorizo in that though.

Now Dani that IS an accent I recognise.
Proper East End!
No doubt drowns his pie & mash in vinegar and liqor like me.

I love Mickey Flannagan.

I've had horrible visions of Ronald McDonald lately.

firstly - that's a beautiful Mickey D's! flower basket and all!

Second - had to listen to that guy three times to catch everything he was saying.
East End accent? Brutal!

Third in line - I've wanted a bacon or sausage roll ever since I first read about them in Kate Atkinson novels! They sound so yummy!

Now, sundae, why were you thinking of me whilst going by McDonalds? It's coz I'm fat, isn't it? It's ok, you can admit it.

When you see a Big Mac, your mind just automatically goes to Fat and Carbs and...me, doesn't it?

Well, I'm not too sad about it. I'm not crying right now or anything. It's just that somethings got in my eye is all....*sob!*

Is ok, really. Am crone now. I can eat all the McDonalds I want! *definat smilie*



;)

Ok, he says, "My wife's middle class, she's got........"

And I can't make out what he says! I've listened five times!!!!

My wife's middle class, she's being skiiing and everything :)

And no, I didn't really mean you as in you.
I occasionally put things like that it to make people think I mean them. To see who the cap fits ;)

I guess I must mean Kerosene, UG, Wolf.
With their talk of condiments I'd never heard of in fast food chains we do have over here.
So I had to check my facts, and whaddya know? Salivation occurred.

Am crone too.
Cranky crone on diet wishing to give up, dissolving own stomach lining in unnecessary saliva. Will get ulcer. And will blame everyone else. Except you.

OH. So, wait.

Everything is not about me?

;)


I used to be middle class - I mean, before my country sank into third-worldness due to wars we wage and can never win - and I've never been skiing.


is skiing a decidedly MC Brit thing to do? Like being a soccer mom over here?

Ketchup - to quote Dilbert, it makes everything taste like Ketchup.
Mayo - pretty good, but really fattening.
McDonald's BBQ sauce or Burger King's onion ring sauce!

They give out Philadelphia cream cheese in the UK. Wow. So we are to the UK what Cheddar is to us.

Now I'm sad. But at least they still have one. Philadelphia Cream Cheese is no longer made in Philadelphia.

It never was. It's from New York.

When it was first marketed, apparently Philadelphia was where the haut cuisine came from.

You need Brussels' Bureaucracy (well, sometimes like you need a hole in the head).
We have Protected Designation of Origin/ Protected Geographical Indication for some regional food or drink.

If it's not from the Champagne region of France it is NOT champagne.
If the pasty is not from Cornwall it is NOT a Cornish pasty.
Too late for Cheddar, but Stilton is okay. No joy for Bologna, but Spain's Serrano ham qualifies.

[Tries hat on. Can't make head nor tail of the doggie ears with the golliwog hair.]

No Taco Bell sauce is mean, not even the green. Some are respectable. I seldom bother with anything less than the Fuego, and part of the attraction there is the reading matter:

"I don't know where I am. It's dark and I can hear laughing."
"Sometimes the sporks pick on me at night."

You want mean with your Taco Bell Supreme item, you pack along your own bottle of Endorphin Rush. Met that one in a restaurant one afternoon last century. One drop makes your eyelids sweat. Two and your breath comes short. The label suggests holding up at three drops until you're truly in training.