Suckling At The Green Teat
Posted on | April 28, 2008 at 6:44 am | 1 Comment
Pet Peeve of the Day: The shortage of 5-oz bottles of Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce in our local food stores. For some reason, most of the grocery stores around here (both Safeway and King Soopers) only carry the 2-oz bottles lately. I’m addicted to this (relatively) mild jalapeno pepper sauce and put it on most main dishes and some side dishes. In fact, it’s a bit of a bone of contention between myself and my girlfriend (who is not into spicy). Typical dinnertime conversation will go like this:
Her: “Must you dump that stuff on everything?”
Me: “Yes.”
Her: “Can’t you at least try (the dish) first to see if it needs hot sauce?”
Me: “No. Everything needs it.”
Her: “Doesn’t that mean that all you’re tasting is hot sauce?”
Me: “No. The pepper sauce enhances and brings out the natural flavor of the dish. It does not overwhelm it.”
Her: “I give up.” (Until the next meal.)
I can see her point – it’s like people who put ketchup on everything. And I can especially see how she would get perturbed when she cooked the meal. It’s rather rude and presumptuous of me to blindly add the sauce. In those cases, I do try to taste the dish before adding the pepper sauce. But it’s hard.
So, anyway, my point is that the little 2-oz bottles just don’t cut it. Heck, I can go through one of those in a week. It’s not like the regular Tabasco Sauce where a little goes a long way – the green stuff is much milder and can be splashed on in quantity. I’m thinking maybe I just need to get a gallon jug of the stuff (which they do sell), but it seems like that would make it hard to pour the sauce. Using it to refill the 2-oz or 5-oz bottles would be a bit messy, since the openings on them are small. I’m just screwed. Guess I gotta look around more for the 5-oz ones and buy ‘em in bulk, maybe order ‘em on the Internet, or just keep suffering with the 2-oz ones. Life is rough.
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ °F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Seeds For Sale” (Great Lakes Myth Society)
- “Green Light (In Stereo)” (Firewater)
- “Prelude” (Kate Bush)
- “Section 8″ (Wanker)
- “Sugar Coated Iceberg” (The Lightning Seeds)
- “Song With A Mission” (The Sounds)
- “Long Live The Sting” (The Celebrity Pilots)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “simplicity and clarity should be your theme in dress”. Yep, those fortune cookie sayings are rolling me in!
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One Response to “Suckling At The Green Teat”
April 28th, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
If we can put a man on the moon and discover how to refill inkjet cartridges, surely there must be some method of getting suburbanites the right-sized condiments!
(hint – the above paragraph contains a suggestion on solving your problem using a syringe-based transfer method…)