The only thing one should put on French toast is ketchup.

No idea why people put syrup and other strange things like that on it.

After all, you don't put syrup on an omelette. Why put it on French Toast?

I actually like to put maple syrup on my scrambled eggs - but I never use ketchup or hot sauce on them. I rarely eat omelettes but would put syrup on them if I did, depending on what fillings were inside. For whatever reason I never put syrup on eggs over-easy or sunny-side-up, which are my two favorite ways to have eggs.

Note, this is only for real maple syrup, not that artificial junk which has no business at the breakfast table!

I don't actually "put" syrup on my eggs, omelettes, bacon or sausage, but if some ends up there it's not a problem at all.

I love chicken wings..but not chicken

I do purposefully put syrup on my breakfast sausage.

Or you could buy maple flavored sausages. I have no idea if they use real maple syrup or taste good. But I would try them.

Pastrami with mayo? Yuck!!!
 

So, I’m in my local deli restaurant. My corned beef sandwich arrives, and I’m about to take the first, glorious bite. I look to my right, and I see a guy at the next table slathering mayo, on his white bread pastrami sandwich.
Normally, I don’t care what anyone does with their meat. Live and let live!
Something about this just disgusted me. Ewwwwww.
Anyone else witness an assault on food decency?

Obviously only mustard should be allowed. But beef and mayo are actually not a bad combo, so I could probably forgive this. It makes me cringe when people put ketchup on a hot dog though. Totally disgusting. If you love ketchup so much, why not order a burger and fries instead? We ban adults from Chicago for this crime.

I think mayo should be restricted to making salads out of poultry or seafood. But may people disagree with me and I see it on an awful lot of inappropriate foods such as hamburgers.

Ranch dressing is even more offensive. Like for dipping slices of pizza.

Life imitating art (1977) perhaps?

Mayo has been the main ingredient in the special sauces (or by itself) on almost all fast food (drive-in) burgers since the early 50s if not before. The places that put hamburgers on the map. How can it be inappropriate on a burger?

Mr. Gfunk once walked into Manny's (a 1950s time warp cafeteria-style Jewish diner in Chicago) and tried to order a corned beef on white with mayo. They wouldn't make it for him. I was meanwhile like, "I don't know this guy."

Growing up in the midwest, I remember 'ham salad' and 'meat filling' which would better be described as beef salad - both sandwich fillings. Sandwiches in that place and time meant squishy white bread, some yellow mustard and if you wanted to get fancy, a 'leaf' of iceberg lettuce :D

Here in the south, we still have places that do ham or turkey salad on mushy white bread with possibly a piece of lettuce. Occasionally they get fancy and slightly toast the mushy white bread.

Among my personal food rules is to not pass judgement on what someone else eats. Ketchup on your hot dogs, mayo on your pastrami, pineapple on your pizza are all good as long as you don't want me too join in.

Not sure how old you are, but if you're near my age, you forgot about the slice of Velveeta!

My personal food rules? I hate it when they put meat on potatoes or vegetables. Put it on the actual plate so my food doesn't "smush" when I cut it.

:D

A simple like doesn't go close to expressing how much I agree with this. I'm stealing this line for my own use.

I'm pretty sure the assault on food decency occurred when he ordered his pastrami on white bread.

Me too! Though it reminds me of being in a restaurant in Long Beach several years ago. I kiddingly said to the waitress, "A class place like this doesn't serve Coke products?"

Her response, "McDonald's is just down the street." :D

I vaguely recall someone in my family seeing a sign in an East Coast deli once that said something like "Mayo is served on sandwiches only to those who can show proof of North Dakota residency."

Ouch!

Any Aussies reading the thread will know there is actually a worse thing than Pepsi. I don't think it's around any more (thank god) but there used to be an abomination called Schweppes Cola found in some places in Australia (only on the multi dispensing soda guns). This stuff was so sickly sweet it made Pepsi seem like a good option. Some friends and I walked out on a round of 5 rum and (supposedly) cokes in one place after the first sip. Luckily 3 of them were bigger than the bouncer, so we had no real problems except verbals. The manager admitted in the end that we were not the first to do so and he was re-considering whether the cheap cost was more trouble than it was worth.

That is an excellent response. To me, it's simple...the server is telling you they don't carry Coke and trying to be helpful by suggesting an alternative. If you don't want it, simply choose something else. I know it's not the same thing, but in terms of asking for something not on the menu, I hardly ever go to KFC and order a cheeseburger :D

Besides, if you're from the southern US, everything's a Coke anyway!

My most recent rule is that if I can put Ssamjang on it... I'm putting Ssamjang on it. (Savory anyway... probably wouldn't put it on Ice Cream)

But basically my only rule is:
1) No blue cheese of any variety. Ever.

My partner refers to it as "foot cheese." You can probably figure out why. :)

Did you just reveal the secret recipe for the special sauce?

So do you ask the server how the dish is platted so as to "ward-off" the potential conflict? FYI, I love when my meat has a nice surprise underneath or is smothered an covered.

No Mr. Pibb is not the same as Dr. Pepper. One is the Coca Cola knockoff and the other is the Original Pepper.

They're both carbonated prune juice.

A continuing calumny of the first degree!

https://www.drpepper.com/en/faq#13 :

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/belle-pepper/

:)

And PSA: There is no period after "Dr"

My autocorrect adds the period unless I backspace. Dr Pepper (it worked) is not a cola and only hte "uneducated" claim it contains prune juice.

Correction: Dr Pepper tastes like carbonated prune juice.

Each to his own and you are allowed to be wrong. :D Will you be attending the annual running of the Gumps at Bryant Denny aka player autograph Saturday as a Bama fan or a jealous Vol fan?

Except in Texas:

Would have been quite normal in Sacramento too in the 60s-70s without the "y'all" or the Big Red.

No. Special sauce recipes are sacred and secret. Except that they contain mayonnaise..... And are mandatory on hamburgers. :)

Oh man, Big Red. That was good stuff. Don't think I've had that since like 1987

The Bama is by way of marriage. The Vol is in my blood. I have no reason to step foot in Tuscaloosa.

At least you know who comes first LOL

Dr Pepper is a carbonated drink but not a cola since it does not a cola extract flavoring (kola nuts) like Pepsi-Cola and Coca Cola.

In Texas especially east Texas, every carbonated drink is a "coke" even 7-UP and Sprint.

This is also true in parts of the southern US. I had a friend in college from Kentucky who would ask what kind of Cokes they had at restaurants.