Mustard - Not just for Hot Dogs
By Joan McDaniel
In my old sugar addicted life, nothing seemed to taste good except processed food. I had white bread or pasta with just about every meal. Now that my addiction is broken I am enjoying the new world of taste. One item I have increased using is the spice mustard. Mustard adds zest and zing to my food. It seems to bring out a hidden taste in the food. The food simply tastes better.
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I don’t eat Hot Dogs anymore, but have learned to love mustard. I will leave the eating of Hot Dog to the Hot Dogs.
Now this is a hot dog
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Mustard and It’s Many Tastes
A long time ago in the 1950s, when I was a kid, I don’t think I even remember condiments like f mustard or ketchup for that matter, but that was a long long time ago. They were around I guess but, I came from the Rocky Mountains and my family was strict ‘Meat and Potato’. It wasn’t until the fast food movement and McDonalds Hamburger the standard condiments of ketchup, mustard and relish all found themselves on our. I liked pickled relish best. Learning about mustard I still never knew anything was in this world besides the typical American yellow mustard.
In the 1970s I along with the rest of America was made aware of “Grey Poupon” mustard by its 1970 commercial. My tastes were expanded to include this whole-grain and Dijon mustard mixed with a small amount of white wine. Yellow mustard was a thing of the past.
Mustard isn’t Just Yellow
Classic American Yellow Mustard
Americans only knew Yellow mustard but the rest of the world knew better. When I started to do research on mustard I found there are many colors, flavors, forms, and types. There is the mustard seed which is used to make the condiment then there are mustard greens which are eaten like a salad, and then there is mustard oil for topical use. There even was a poisonous gas called mustard gas only because it smelled like mustard and has nothing to do with the mustard plant.
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