Bringing your own condiments?!!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Was at a pub quiz last night and one of our team decided to order food. But they didn't have any mint sauce to go on his mushy peas. So he went out to his car and bought back an A4 document wallet crammed full of sachets of different sauces that he's taken from other places. Does anyone else actually do this?! The rest of us couldn't quite believe it.

I'll be taking black pepper to MIL's for Christmas because she only has white pepper for the table. I only use white pepper for cooking, it's too strong for the table for me! 😂

Why might you need fish in an emergency?!!😂😂

My mum has a selection of condiments in her handbag, also biscuits 'for emergencies'

Bloody fantastic, was he married! Love a man who plans!

Is that a proposal?!

I do this. I like my food hot.

if I don't use it it comes home. things like jam or mayo only I eat so if I buy a jar it will just be wasted but if I have a portion size its just right for my toast etc.

Having a brand spanking new allergy that seems to discriminate against food coloured red, I carry around Aldi ketchup because I know it’s safe and won’t have my lips and eyes swelling up and leave me gasping for breath.

In the summer we were at a campsite with a club house, the owners were most disgruntled that I wasn’t using their proper Heinz ketchup until I explained!

I keep a bottle of Tabasco in my handbag for spice emergencies 😂

It’s a good idea. You should always have an emergency Maccies ketchup in the glove compartment, the full on condiment document wallet is good forward planning.

Op said documents wallet but I imagined a lever arch file with subject dividers and the friend turning to M for his mint sauce.

I think a lot of people carry hot sauce and tabasco around

Im impressed by this bloke. Top condimenting.

Although.

I do take issue with the mint sauce

In my view, mushy peas need lots of vinegar on them, then, tomato sauced mixed in.

Thats mushy peas.

Never heard of it but I'm very impressed!!

You can buy tins with mint already added. Might be a Northern thing. My favourite is to make a little well in the peas to fill with vinegar.
In my car I have sachets of brown sauce, vinegar, pepper and salt. I used to like stealing the sachets of chilli flakes from Costco but haven't seen any for a while.

There's something rather Pratchettesque about "emergency fish". Reminds me of "You're all right, so long as you've got a potato."

Just me, then?

It's a local thing. They sell them at fairs. 🤢

Yes. I can't stand him though!

Met up with the other people who were at the quiz. They were mortified when the wallet came out. 😂

I carry a few in my handbag and a good supply of decaf teabags/fruit teas - all taken from hotels and restaurants of course. I also carry disposable cutlery because you never know when it's useful

At work one day I discovered I had brought the wrong box of food, and it was just roast chicken

Colleague rummaged in his desk drawers and produced some wraps and then said "Nando's sauce, mayo or ketchup?"

Saved my lunch!

I'm thrilled to have just bought a handbag size bottle of Hendo's and can't wait to use it!

I do. I always have salt. Wee mini bottles of Tabasco. That's my handbag. Ketchup and mayonnaise, vinegar, cutlery all in the car. I don't have mint sauce but. That's a wee thought right enough.

As someone in the industry, very much prefer someone who takes sauces and then uses them rather than someone who takes a huge handful of ketchup sachets, uses two and then dumps the rest on the greasy ketchuppy plate. We cant reuse them as they are dirty so they just get chucked. For every box of sachets, I would guess that only about a third are actually used. Every single summers day (sachets are only used for outdoors eating) we throw away thousands of the damned things.

I need to do this. So many places have condiments that I can't use due to gluten.