Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Life Goes On

 


20 comments:

  1. There’s never a bad time for a great steak… even if your neighbors are dying in droves around you.

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  2. wuzdisheah sauce?

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  3. Had to do something to cover the taste of the mule meat.

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    1. My thoughts exactly. Someone on the lines invented it to hide some bad "meat".

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    2. Yes! And we thought that C-Rations were bad. Those Civil War soldiers not only had to endure mule meat, but they also had possum, rhubarb, sauerkraut and other "delicacies."

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    3. That meme was obviously made by someone who never heard of what military rations were like during the Civil War, nor ever tasted a sample of the dotMil's culinary delights in their entire adult life.

      For reference, McIlhenny's Tabasco Sauce was not only a favorite of troops in Vietnam and subsequent years up to the present day, the CEO of the company from 1949-1985 was a retired USMC general, a Distinguished Marksman, recipient of a Navy Cross, Silver Star, and two Purple Hearts from WWII combat service at Guadalcanal and Peleliu, and the grandson of the company founder.

      It turns out C-rats and MREs weren't much better-tasting than salt beef and hardtack was in the Civil War.

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  4. NOT the original anymore. They changed it a good while back now. If you are old enough you can tell (Remember) the difference. I don't care for the newer stuff, found an Oriental sauce called Tonkatsu (Bull Dog one) that I like MUCH better. Do miss the original though it was good stuff.

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  5. Did they change Maker's Mark sauce as well? Loved it back in the early 90s but bought one last year and it tasted like crap.

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  6. Never thought a good steak needed a sauce. Or a bad steak either. Especially that goo.

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  7. Sorry, but if you want a sauce on your steak then make it from the juices in the pan.

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  8. Good on chicken.

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  9. A-1 was created in the UK.

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  10. Likes my steak like I likes my strumpet.
    Hot, juicy, and bare.

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  11. As to the meme, anyone who has ever served in uniform and spent time in the field "camping" gets it.

    If your steak needs sauce, something is wrong.

    Grilled cheese sandwich. Slather A-1 on the inside of both pieces of bread. Add a piece of fried baloney and a fried egg. You will be able to feel your arteries clogging up, but you won't care.

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  12. Meat was short during the war. Folks in the big cities bought 50/50 (nobody ever explained if it was 50% horse/50% rabbit -or- 50 horses and 50 rabbits) Anyway, it was pretty bad and A1 made it at least tolerable

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  13. Oh FFS!! A1 is not an AMERICAN development....It's British...And they were not having a civil war at the time....

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    1. A.1. Sauce (formerly A.1. Steak Sauce and sometimes stylized as A1 Sauce in certain markets) is a brand of brown sauce produced by Brand & co, a subsidiary of Premier Foods in the United Kingdom (as "Brand's A.1. Sauce") and in North America by Kraft Heinz.

      Sold from 1831 as a condiment for "fish, meat, fowl and game" dishes in the United Kingdom, the makers introduced the product to Canada, and later to the U.S. where it was later marketed as a steak sauce.

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    2. The Brits need all the help they can get for their food.

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