i feel like my life has been a lie up to this point. who knew there was heavy duty mayo???????
Aroy-D is a good brand. I buy their coconut milk in boxes when I can find it. The Thai Hom Mali rice logo is supposed to be what you look for and coupled with that brand you got legit Thai Jasmine rice, good choice.
That was the mission, get real thai jasmine rice. Except for one jasmine rice from Cambodja they all had the logo. It’s a good tv show, like a mini doc about a product to create awareness. They take 5-10 products from Unilever and other major suppliers/brands here and then basically check how genuine or how bs they are by going to in this case asian shops in NL but also Thailand. Usually ending up at a producer/factory willing to open their doors and show how it’s done properly. They go to Spain and go “look this is what we sell as Tapaz in NL”, or in this case “pandan rice”, which is about preparing it and not an actual rice variant, which is jasmine rice. That’s as usual just the start, it always gets worse. In this case it turns out grocery chains including “fair trade“ pandan rice contains as little as 5% jasmine rice and the rest is just plain white rice. It’s all a (marketing) scam, needless to say “pandan rice“ costs more than the rice actually in it. With so many things the quality slowly goes down and I don’t notice it till I get the real thing again. Like eating oven baked cookies without palm oil…
It's easier here in Los Angeles, I just go to the local Thai Market and they deal with making sure they have the legitimate versions because most restaurants buy from Thai Town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Town,_Los_Angeles
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I buy rice by the 25 lb bag at the Asian market. It's like 1/3 the price they charge at regular grocery stores buying it that way. I'm lucky though. I have more full scale Asian markets around me than regular American grocery chains.
It was quite amusing watching my soon to be wife first trying English mustard. She’s American so slathered her sausage in it while meeting my parents for the first time.There's a lot of people that don't like mustard. I'm a mustard lover myself. I eat sliced bread with mustard. I love the stuff. I don't like honey mustard though. It's too sweet. I like the tart, tangy, and spicy stuff. I really like mixing the powdered mustard myself for a sinus clearing delicious condiment. One of my go to dipping sauces is dijon mustard mixed with horseradish.
I had a roommate way back in the day that didn't like mustard. He'd put ketchup on a hot dog. Drove me crazy.
