I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey in an academic atmosphere where those that didn’t work for the university largely commuted to New York and worked in advertising (my father) or the financial sector. I don’t think I met a Republican (other than during Summer trips) until I was eighteen who would drink a can of beer or put yellow mustard on anything they intended to put in their mouth. I have come to know that strange creature known as a member of the Republican Base only in later life. In college, one of my girlfriends worked for a while in a redneck bar where they would play Whitney Houston endlessly on the jukebox and say, “that nigger sur kin sing” everytime. They were Republicans, through and through.
I’ve split most of my life between Los Angeles, Philadelphia (and its suburbs), and the New York metro area. I haven’t had much contact with working class Republicans, although I knew quite a few in Michigan when I went to school there. In any case, the whole idea of a Republican using yellow mustard is totally foreign to me. Republicans use Dijon, and they don’t eat hamburgers. They eat ham and steak. I mean, are you telling me these guys aren’t Republicans (or Tories)?
For Sean Hannity to criticize Obama for using spicy mustard is as silly as me thinking Hannity drinks anything but Chardonnay.
I guess that French’s mustard would be unacceptable as well.
You would think, but that is the proletariat’s mustard, evidently. It’s the rough equivalent of a warm can of Busch beer. Check this out.
I grew up in a Republican family. We only consumed Gulden’s Spicy Brown Mustard. You would NEVER see a bottle of that bright yellow shit in our refrigerator. NEVER!
But seriously… Dijon mustard (like Grey Poupon) is good mustard. Personally, I like Spicy Brown (Guldens) better, but Dijon is a close second. Another thing to try lately is this horseradish spicy brown mustard on sausages. Really good. But not on anything else but spicy sausages.
Well that’s my position on Mustard. That bright yellow French’s stuff sucks on anything but Corn Dogs. Spicy Brown (Gulden’s or generic) is the way to go.
Dijon with pastrami on rye!
Yum!
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You people know nothing from mustard. The best mustard in the world is Maille, and the only place you can get it fresh and correct is in Place de la Madeleine in Paris across the block from Fauchon. You have to bring your personal jar, and they pump it out of a container that looks a little bit like a draft beer container at your local bar. Maille was bought by Amora recently, and there has been a big kerfuffle over their closing down the factory in Dijon, of all places. Also a rumour they had shut down the shop on the Place de la Madeleine. But I was over there last week and filled up. Best mustard in the world.
I concur, although I buy mine by the imported jar here in the US.
What, you can’t picture Hannity, Mitt Romney, Charles Krauthammer and George Will sittin’ on the back of a pickup eatin’ some fine grade A beef with yellow mustard while Peggy Noonan does a dance in her Daisy Dukes to Lynyrd Skynyrd?