Feeling old after younger shoppers did not recognise Colman's mustard powder

[Mydogisagentleman]

Ever felt really old.
Yesterday I went to the shop after work. I'm going to Spain next week for 4 days. DH loves English mustard and it's not available locally.
Since I am not taking a bag I thought I'd get dried colmans powder.
I hunted up and down fruitlessly. I asked a young couple (probably 25ish) if they could see any.
Neither knew what it was. They were bemused at the idea it didn't come ready mixed.
A couple of the staff had the same reaction.
Luckily an older staff member came to my rescue.
I am almost certain that my 25 year old daughter knows what it is.

I’m 48 I know what it is I did buy it once just wanted to see what it was like. Didn’t like it so stick to pre made now.

41 here and know it well! I sprinkle it onto certain foods as a condiment!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 This caught me off guard and me laugh out loud!

I always use the mustard powder in my cheese scones & in a fish pie too.

Bisto powder which I grew up on, I’m 66, is getting increasingly hard to find, I really don’t like the taste or texture of the granules, but I now buy it in 3K tubs from Amazon.

You'll like this one then. I have a jar of Schwartz celery salt which is 43 years old.
The only time I ever use a tiny pinch of it is when making late DM's recipe for lamb stew and that happens maybe once a year, if that.

There's also a tin of black treacle somewhere at the back of the baking cupboard. The lid is stuck fast. I can see my descendants donating it to a museum in years to come.😂

I was working for Schwartz Spices in the 1980s !
That's what started my passion for herbs & spices, we were allowed to help ourselves to the products.

If you're in the industry, are you able to say why the jars aren't wide enough to get a teaspoon in?

Spice jars probably pip toasters not being the same shape as bread and lasagne dishes not matching a whole number of uncut lasagne sheets in missing a very obvious product design requirement.

Also mustard plasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plaster

It has a rather beautiful tin, so I hope it hangs on for a while.

Ok. I’m early 50s but I always have this in my cupboard. I pay an extortionate price to buy it here in Germany. And my DD27 certainly knows what it is.
I make it up for grill parties in Germany too so my German friends now know it.

I will use Dijon if I've accidentally run out of powder but I add the powder with the flour to make the roux and I find it mixes in better to just give a hint without overpowering.

I still have sealed rations of margarine and sugar in my dresser. They were my Grandma's.

The powder is gluten free and the jar is not, iirc! So that is handy.

What’s wrong with a glass jar? Less blasted plastic!

I’ll have it! Once we’re into autumn, I often make a particularly moreish gingerbread that uses both golden syrup and black treacle.

Dh once got a very tart mouthful from me when he came home with Golden Syrup in a horrible plastic squeezy bottle.

He now knows NEVER to buy anything in plastic, if it’s available in a tin or a jar.

Im 46 and never knew it came in powder form.

I know mustard and I know the brand.

But as I can’t stand the staff I w never needed to know what forms it comes in!

Mustard powder goes in my incredibly moreish cheese straws, too.

And a splash of Worcestershire sauce.

I left the industry many years ago, but that's an interesting point. I've got spice racks that have their own bottles (wide-necked), & I decant into them. I don't have any Schwartz jars.

Re the toaster slots, I complained to Warburtons when they changed the shape of their loaves. Their reply was something about the high-dome looking nicer !
I changed brands.

If you're not actually using them I don't know if it counts.

I'm 40 and also assumed mustard powder was a thing of the past - though I'm not exactly keeping track because I don't like the taste of mustard (nor do I care for cheese scones or cheese sauce).

I am, however, completely sold on the mustard bath salts posted upthread. Something about the amazon reviews of people who had, after a bitter winter's day, dipped their stiff, cold, aching limbs into a boiling hot mustard bath has really spoken to me. I might get a tub in ready for December...

30ish and I've defo heard of it.

Looks like Waitrose still sell the sachets…