Dog Cones and Fry Sauce everyone!

So my dog is wearing the cone of shame.  If you have a dog you know the one I am talking about, the one that does not allow them to lick themselves.  You may ask what that has to do with pickles.  Well, nothing really.  Gilmore just looks silly and I am a little sad he had minor surgery on his paw.

So tonight I ate Heinz hot dog relish.  Now, Heinz is a huge company, probably most famous for its ketchup.  As a result, I was not super excited about the relish.  I figured it was going to be run of the mill, nothing special relish.  The idea of this product is relish and mustard into one.  It is okay.  I am not a huge fan of sweet relish, but once mixed with the mustard it has enough vinegar base in it that it fills my need for vinegar based condiments.  Let me add, I also really enjoy mustard so when you put two vinegar based foods together, I am a pretty happy camper.  I have always wondered if I suffer from vinegar deficiency, which would explain my love of not only pickles, but mustard and buffalo wing sauce.  On a scale from 1-10 I give this relish a solid 5.  It would just be much better if the mustard was mixed with some sort of dill relish.

Now, the premixed concept makes me laugh.  I understand that we live in a world of convenience.  Gone are the days where people have time to put their peanut butter and jelly on their sandwich.  They have to get one jar to save time.  This relish is the same concept.  My only question is if you don’t like the ratio of premixed products do you add more of one product.  If you buy the peanut butter and jelly mix and want more jelly, do you supplement?

One of my personal favorite pre-mixed products is fry sauce.  For all my friends who live in Idaho and Utah, I do not need to explain.  To the rest of the world, fry sauce is a premixed ketchup and mayo combo that is packaged and called fry sauce.  When I was little you could only get it at Arctic Circle.  Now you can actually buy fry sauce in grocery stores.  There is a band called, Some Dude’s Fry Sauce.  This delicious concoction recently came out with a zesty version (or at least I think it was recent) that has chilies and garlic.  Delicious!  Now, for those of you who do not live near Idaho or Utah the biggest secret I have for you is that you can also get fry sauce by buying Thousand Island dressing.  It is the same thing.  (I did not know that until I was an adult.)  In fact, Thousand Island might be marginally better because it has pickles in it and if you have not figured out by now, I think pickles make everything better!