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eleltea Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
Another thread made me think of these, but that other thread got weird, and I am being serious here:

1. Heinz Ketchup (my wife tried to stop me from buying it when Kerry was running, but some things rise above politics. Go shove your Hunt's)

2. Best Foods/Hellman's Mayonnaise (Kraft? Are you daft?)

3. Lee & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

4. Tabasco (original, red, small bottle)

5. Nathan's hotdogs (natural casing if you can find them)

6. Vidalia Onions (do not talk to me about Maui)

7. Angostura Bitters (that stuff from New Orleans tastes like something you'd put on a cut finger. A few drops of Angostura in your Coke and you've got something that tastes a lot like Moxie. You don't know from Moxie?)

8. Coca-Cola (they still use cane sugar in the Mexican version, if you can find it, but the water will probably kill ya. ha ha)

9. Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Tonic. (OK, I don't think anyone else makes a celery tonic)

10. DeCecco #12 spaghetti (the reason I never order pasta out, except if I go to Italy again some day. And this should have been number 1 on my list, really, so this list is not at all in order.)

Since my list is immutable and cannot be improved upon, I suppose I really don't care if you turn the thread gay or nipply now, if you don't have anything to add that you are really passionate about. But I hope you do. There might be something I haven't tried that I can make number 11. TIA.



tonester666 Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 05-07-2003
Posts: 1,324
LLT????

wow, it has been a long time.
PecanPi1 Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 03-17-2004
Posts: 3,885
Dr.Scholls Pillowsoft inserts...

They are the doggone bestest inserts out there.
Much better than bubble wrap, which often smells like tobacco, and can interfere with foot odor.

No. 12???
delarob Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 06-28-2001
Posts: 5,318
Kirby & Holloway Scrapple. The others just can't compare.
burgess_b Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 10-07-2005
Posts: 23,212
q-tips...the generic are not soft enough and just stab you in the inner ear (hurts).
usahog Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 12-06-1999
Posts: 22,691
No Kidding what #2 said...

How ya been?
eleltea Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
No 2 and 6, funny how time slips away. Thanks for remembering me. How've you been? Number 4, I like scrapple, but haven't had it often I'll look for your favorite brand. In Cincy we have goetta, a distant relative of haggis I suppose, pretty tasty. I like mine crispy.

6, I agree 100%. No substitute for Q-Tips. Goes on my list. Pi, you're kidding as usual,but that's a good thing.
SteveS Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 01-13-2002
Posts: 8,751
Elelea ... we're in total agreement on #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, & 10 ...

We disagree on #'s 5 & 8

I have no opinion on 7 & 9 ... have never used 7 and have never even heard of celery tonic ...

and, most importantly, I agree completely with Tonester ... good to see you back in action
Country Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 04-18-2008
Posts: 5,893
Tobasco sauce sucks the balls of men.
andytv Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 10-23-2002
Posts: 40,991
Like it or not, tabasco is an icon.

I LOVE tabasco.......probably the most immediately recognizable sauce in the world.

Nobody else has been able to make even a remotely similar sauce, and the kicker is that it only has THREE ingredients......peppers, salt, vinegar. It has been made the same way for decades.


RICKAMAVEN Offline
#11 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
1. Author: eleltea

i use safflower mayo instead. it's almost the same as hellmans just less salty.

the proper way to cook a nathan's is to put in in the micro for 1 minute and then put it in a fry pan with no oil or butter and cook it medium, rolling it around with a spatula until the skin starts to crack.

i eat mine on toasted white bread folded on the diagonal, but if you use a bun, wipe up the juices with the bun. i assume you use deli mustard, and not french's or dijon.

i have a distributor out here that carries dr brown's cream soda, and yoo hoo, and nedicks, and bubble up.
http://www.drsoda.com/

vermont country store is great for olde fashioned candy. http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/Shop

if you are looking for my-t-fine chocolate pudding
http://tinyurl.com/6db8t4

if there is anything else that you are needing, contact me.

i know they don't make charlotte russes any more because the mfg of the king's crown that they made it in died, and his kids closed the plant. bastards.

devil dogs and most other drakes cakes, including marble pound cake the you put in a toaster with the wrapper on but cut it first, is no more either.
wheelrite Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 11-01-2006
Posts: 50,119
Charmin Butt Paper,,,

Ooooh Sooo Soft !!


anything else is crap..


wheel,,
jackconrad Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 06-09-2003
Posts: 67,461
Astroglide ?
JadeRose Offline
#14 Posted:
Joined: 05-15-2008
Posts: 19,525
Vernors Ginger Ale.
daveincincy Offline
#15 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2006
Posts: 20,033
I heard, a while back, that Costco sold the Coca Cola from Mexico with real cane sugar in it. Also, you can typically buy it at a Mexican grocery store if you have one in the area.
PecanPi1 Offline
#16 Posted:
Joined: 03-17-2004
Posts: 3,885
Hey Rick:

Don't forget the Bonamo's Turkish taffy.

xibbumbero Offline
#17 Posted:
Joined: 01-25-2002
Posts: 12,535
#11..You forgot Blue Fox Tacos,washed down w/Mexican Coke to get fishy taste otta your mouth. X
eleltea Offline
#18 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
X, I would be shocked if you didn't still have that fishy taste in your mouth, as many of those tacos as you lapped up. And up was the direction as I recall.
eleltea Offline
#19 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
#12 if you use wet TP, Charmin is a loser. Gotta have 2-ply, for starters, and Northern holds up best.

#14, true Verners is unique, but there are a few micro brewed Ginger ales/beers made in the Jamaican style (and with cane sugar) that are superior. Cost a few cents more. Seek one out.

BTW, locally, Krogers sells Mexican Coke by the single bottle. They charge too much, but they sure are good, and I don't drink that many soft drinks these days.
eleltea Offline
#20 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
#11, stop worrying so much about salt, Rick. Find some Celtic Sea Salt and use it on whatever you like salt on. It's good for you. Loaded with minerals. Get the gray colored kind. And go back to Best Foods mayo. You know you miss it. Its those cakes and candy that are going to kill ya.

I steam my Nathans, and steam a plain hot dog bun to hold it. Nothing fancy, you want to taste the dog, not the bread. I do not steam it until it splits, only until its hot and snappy. Tastes so good mustard is a distraction.

Agree on Dr. Brown's Cream Soda, although, again, there are some pretty good micro-brewed cream sodas out there now, too.
eleltea Offline
#21 Posted:
Joined: 03-03-2002
Posts: 4,562
#8, what do you like? Pink's are great, but you got to go to SoCal to get one. Boar's Head Natural Casing? They're great, too, but not everyone carries them.

Sounds like your a Pepsi man. Surely not RC?

Anyway, thanks for reminding me.
Palama Offline
#22 Posted:
Joined: 02-05-2013
Posts: 23,704
Agree with:

1. Heinz
2. Best Foods
3. L&P
4. Tabasco

The rest? I'mma not that picky...although FRESH Kula Maui Onions are really hard to beat.
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#23 Posted:
Joined: 10-20-2023
Posts: 839
Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (original only)
Dr. Pepper (original only)
Claussen pickles (halves only)
Oreos (double stuf)
JIF peanut butter (creamy only)
Heinz ketchup
Velveeta shells and cheese
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#24 Posted:
Joined: 12-29-2020
Posts: 4,145
Where’s delarob?? I know he’s local to me due to the scrapple choice.
JGRAZ Offline
#25 Posted:
Joined: 10-31-2022
Posts: 740
Boars head cold cuts, everything else is trash.
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