Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I don't really care if my ketchup is refrigerated or left on the counter. It's got enough vinegar/acid in it to keep it from spoiling (I think). I just don't like things sitting out on my countertop and I hate having to dig through my cupboards too much.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ <<You buncha freakin' traditionalist. Live on the edge once in the while. It's just your gut.>>> Yeah, and this gut has ulcerative colitis. It does NOT live on the edge, LOL!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 LOL Ursula! Over New Year's weekend I had some LP friends (the crew) over for a Tripoley and board games slumber party. I made minestrone soup for dinner. Well, I had forgotten that I had previously cooked either tamales or chili beans (I betting on the chili beans) in my super duper large "enamal" pot. So instead of the traditional italian minestrone soup I normally make I got a "chilistrone" or "tamalistrone" as we were calling it. It was good, it was "HOT", it was me - a mixed up bit of everything.
Originally Posted By Bucky N Satchel Stick of salami - IN Ketchup - OUT Mustard - OUT until opened, then IN Butter - IN, except for one stick which is kept OUT Fruit - BOTH - depends on the fruit. Bread - OUT (the Costco double loaf of San Louis sour dough gets put in the freezer if we don't think we can eat it all) BBQ/Steak Sauces - OUT until opened, then IN for BBQ. Always OUT for steak sauce. Mayonnaise - IN (unopened in the cupboard) Batteries - OUT
Originally Posted By SuzieQ ^ yeah, then they were disappointed when they came to my house a few weeks later and it was plain Minestrone, LOL!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well, that weekend it was the Wendebirds, IceKnyght and the Kar2oonfamily.
Originally Posted By MissCandice Now I have the image of you all in Motley Crue make-up from the early eighties.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy As the LP Ambassador for Ketchupâ„¢, I can tell you it does go IN. I never notice it's "cold" because the taste of ketchup is so enveloping. I used to leave it out, until my best friend told me that if you refrigerate it, it keeps better and longer...just like batteries, which I also refrigerate (but don't eat). Butter? Some people actually keep this OUT? How do you do that? It's dairy! You don't leave milk and cheese sitting out! ?? Besides, if you even leave it out for a bit when cooking something, it starts to get darker yellow and harden, blech... Miracle Whip, IN. Bread, IN. I don't want cold bread thank you, and I really don't understand freezing bread. Same with freezing chocolate candy. Some females like this and I can't comprehend it---not only is it cold, it's hard as rock!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I could say so much about your last sentence but zipping my lips! LMAO! LOL - MissCandice that would be a sight.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl <<Some females like this and I can't comprehend it---not only is it cold, it's hard as rock!>> Snickers from the freezer are the best! Stick of salami - IN Sliced - IN Ketchup - IN Butter/Margarine - IN Fruit - IN and OUT depending on the fruit and how soon we plan to eat it. Bread - In (No room to keep it out) BBQ/Steak Sauces - OUT and IN... no real rhyme or reason. LOL! ~Beth
Originally Posted By Lisann22 <<<Snickers from the freezer are the best!>>> Don't you hate a wiseguy freezer? LMAO - ok, I need more meds!
Originally Posted By Bucky N Satchel If you eat the butter fast enough it doesn't have time to go bad. In a house with 2 grown men and 2 growing boys I don't anticipate the butter EVER going rancid. Hard refrigerator butter just doesn't spread all nice, it rips the bread and makes the toast go all cold.
Originally Posted By Mrs Nurmi <<Butter? Some people actually keep this OUT? How do you do that? It's dairy! You don't leave milk and cheese sitting out! ??>> Margarine is decidedly NOT dairy, lol. We use the generic term of butter, but it's really margarine. Even if it was really butter, it doesn't stay around long enough to get hard or yellowy - good lord, TDG, how long did you leave it for, lol!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Snickers from the freezer are the best!> See folks?? Another female! Arrrgh! You people don't come with steel teeth! Great joke Lisann, LOL. <Hard refrigerator butter just doesn't spread all nice, it rips the bread and makes the toast go all cold.> Ahhh, I use mine for cookin', not spreadin'.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Even if it was really butter, it doesn't stay around long enough to get hard or yellowy - good lord, TDG, how long did you leave it for, lol!> Ya know what? Now that I think about it, it does that when you don't cover it up all the way enough. That's when I've seen traces of hard yeller. lol