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[mindmetoo]

A woman comedian had a great joke once, one of those jokes that flew over the heads of most men: "I've been married so long I'm on my second bottle of tabasco sauce."

A little bottle of tabasco sauce sits in most western cupboards for a long, long time.

I noticed today I actually finished a bottle of soy sauce. And a fairly big one too, not one of those Kikoman table top jobbers. Usually I have a bottle in my fridge and eventually chuck it when I move to a new place five years later.

[tzechuk]

LOL... i totally understand what you mean. Our tobasco is sitting in our fridge, hardly used.

Soy sauce, though, is another matter, as I do quite a bit of Korean cooking.

[peppermint]

Oh god, gone through almost two bottles of each since being here.

[peony]

i go through about a bottle of tabasco a month, soy takes me a lot longer as i dont cook that often

[deessell]

[SuperHero]

I use a lot of tobasco when making buffulo wings

[peony]

[JongnoGuru]

I don't care what it is, I don't care if it's still good years after I've purchased & opened it, I don't like the idea of ANY food product sitting in my fridge and growing old with me. I want it out of there in short order. Grrr!

Also, I'd go through tabasco sauce a lot quicker if pizzas in Korea didn't come with those little packets of hot sauce. I would rather use my tabasco sauce and not even receive those packets. Or the grated cheese, or the sweet gherkins. A girlfriend used to pull them out of the box and save them in the butter/egg shelf of my fridge, until there was almost no room left for butter or eggs. "Please, I wish you would stop saving those. I really don't need them or use them." Comes the day I'm moving house and she's helping the ajuma pack food from the fridge.

Me: Oh no. No way am I bringing along that (big!) bag of condiments.

Her: You never know. The day may come when you need these.

Me: What?? Look, if I ever lose everything and I'm down to my last three dozen 20-year-old packets of Domino's grated cheese & hot sauce, then you have my permission-- NO! My direct ORDERS to shoot me in the head.

[numazawa]

You could raise the ante and say, "My family line is so long, we're collectively on our second bottle of Worcestershire sauce."

(Tip: for ease of pronunciation, we recommend saying, "Whatsthisheresauce.")

[mindmetoo]

[seoulkitchen]

I've got that habit too, developed from when I first got here waaaayyy back when. You couldn't get tabasco or parmasean in the stores. Those little packets got me thru many a bleak lonely winter's night......
They're almost an MRE!