Comments on: Dijon? Please. The Great Junk Food Challenge

By: Fearsome Comrade

Fearsome Comrade — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:36:09 +0000

Mr Rosenbaum, I think you’ve got it all wrong. We don’t care that Mr Obama likes Dijon mustard. Hell, I despise the bright yellow stuff and prefer fancy-pants mustard myself. It’s that the network that aired the story made a big deal out of the “two regular guys out for burgers” motif, then censored Obama’s order right as he was about to say what kind of mustard he wanted. The Legal Insurrection blog thought it was kind of funny how obsessively the media censored other instances of Obama asking for Dijon mustard and basically made a joke about it. Nutroots leftists, unable to see the humor in anything having to do with The One, came unhinged:

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/05/thou-shall-not-mock-obamas-mustard.html

To the right, “Dijongate” was just a way to poke fun at the MSM. To the MSM, it became a minor obsession.

By: jules

jules — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:23:57 +0000

Just wanted to say, Dijon mustard is made by Kraft foods. I was embarrassed that people made such a big deal about an AMERICAN product. It is not European and I always preferred it to yellow mustard… in fact my grandma does too, and she’s not elitist.

By: JFM

JFM — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:13:43 +0000

I put a little mustard on my frankfurter and nearly spat it out. It was Dijon mustard! If one grew up as I did having a dog with American mustard at Levis’s and Connie Mack Stadium in Philly this was a shock to my system. Dijon mustard is strong. If you use the same quantity as you would use for American mustard you are going to breath fire. I was thrilled to see real hot dogs for sale as well as waffles, with those yellow tubs of French’s mustard on the tables. French mustard? In tubs? If any Frenchman learns about it the place is going to be burned to the grounds.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:30:59 +0000

“My son, who just got back from St. Louis, tells me that “crisp” ravioli is a local delicacy there, quite good and perhaps close to what I had imagined 50 years ago”.

I have the same attitude towards any pasta based food, its just not that great unless a bit crispy. Luckily i live in China, they fry anything here, and you can buy real burners, in the 15,000 – 20,000 BTU range locally. Cook pasta as normal bit 2-3 minutes undercooked. Fire up burner and finish at high heat for about 90 seconds.

Does wonders for flavor and texture.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:04:32 +0000

My worst junk food experience. Well.. I would have to say eating knishes made by a Mohel ranks in the top two.

Rather chewy.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:47:15 +0000

I recently went to the new Yankee Stadium. The nachos plate, at 12 dollars and 1400 calories, is so disgusting there. It looks like a plate of fat and just gazing at it makes you wretch. Alternatively, the Yankees have fresh fruit carts and the apples, two for three dollars are crisp and tangy. The whole place is designed to make you gorge on junk food and ignore the game. Hot dog vendors deliver the weiners in spiffy Nathan’s bags which resemble carryon luggage. The franks are overbroiled, which makes them scrumptious. Everybody, even 56 year old me, gets carted for beer, which is weird. The concessions include a garlic fries stand, Carl’s Philly cheesecake, Latin Corner Cuban sandwiches, Johnny Rockets burgers, Brother Jimmy’s southern bbq, a noodle bowl stand, Famiglia Pizza, and a Kid’s Cart with PB&Js. The fresh fruit stand is called Melissa’s. For the Hickeys, Harveys and Mistress Quicklys out there, there is a staggering assortment of booze havens in Yankeeland. Babe Ruth, famous for consuming a couple of dogs and half a dozen root beers while playing right field, wouldn’t last a week in the new fleshpot.

By: AThinkingPerson

AThinkingPerson — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:06:14 +0000

The worst junk food in the world? Anything bought at a “fair” out of a trailer. So awful.

By: Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:21:38 +0000

You choice of junk food is smart. Cinnamon is the perfect spice for the Swine Flu era being, according to my girlfriend who is an ayurvedic healer as well as a Professor of western medicine (great legs too)cinnamon is a powerful antiviral.

I just hope you don’t dunk you cinnamon sticks in dijon mustard, that would be vulgar.

By: DavidN

DavidN — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:12:30 +0000

Everyone has commented on the mustard incident in view of MSNBC’s editing of what occurred, so I won’t go into it. I will mention one thing: apparently they were smart enough to pick a place that would have Dijon mustard. It’s working class, but apparently it’s a “gourmet” burger place, and they have varieties of spicy burgers and toppings. They even have a “blackened” burger with cajun spices on it, from what I read.

As for my worst indulgence: it doesn’t really qualify as junk food. I’m not that big a fan of drive-through unless it’s In-N-Out, and there stuff, on the fast food scale, is pretty healthy. I do like apple fritters, but I’ve found something worse, though I only very rarely (say once every two years or so) indulge myself. One of the local restaurants DEEP FRIES their French Toast! My wife can only eat a bite or two; after that it makes her sick. I have to have it as a combination with eggs etc.; a full order would probably kill me.

P.S. When I just recounted this to my wife, she mentioned the Bulldog, and it’s definitely a qualifier. I’ve only eaten them once, but my they were fattening, disgusting, and tasty. This is a from a local fast food chain called Yaki’s Original Teriyaki Bowl, or something to that effect. They take a regular length hot dog, encase it in cheese of some sort, then wrap that in a won-ton wrapper, and drop the whole thing in a deep fryer. This makes a hot dog with a sort of crunchy won-ton for a bun, and they have sauce like you get with Asian food sometimes: a mustard concoction of some sort (this one is Dijon-based, Obama would be proud) along-side some sort of ketchup concoction. You’re supposed to mix the two together and dip the bulldogs into them. If you get three, along with fries and a drink, the place calls the whole thing “the Doghouse”.

By: steveg

steveg — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:12:21 +0000

#7 Delia….’Snickers’, by far, the best junk food on the planet.