First ever mustard experience

Chinafoot

ok guys and gals, what was your first ever mustard experience?

mine was in my next door neighbours house (they always were classier than us) and my friends mam made me a ham sandwich. she asked me did i want mustard and not wanting to be impolite, i said yes.....and thus my love affair with mustard began! it was such an amazing taste....like a party in my mouth!

ecksor

I started putting the english stuff on my ham after watching my grandfather have it with any cold meats and saladas as a child. Took me a while to get to like the taste of it I must admit!

Agent Smith

ok.... this is getting warped.....

mine was when i was about 6/7 watched my dad put it on a burger, tried it, then threw up....

Beruthiel

my first ever memorable mustard experience, the one that changed my life forever and which made me look at mustard in a whole new light was when I went to visit my sister in france and she produced a jar of Dijon to compliment the meal she was serving us, sex for your taste buds, I was never the same person again

BuffyBot

Again with the plain white bread (heel of the loaf) and plain mustard on it.

I was a strange child!

po0k

buttered white bread, slices of white cheddar and colman's mustard.

That's what I insisted on having for lunch for an extensive period of Junior infants and 1st class, with brief forays into bread and ketchup sandwiches.

Haven't had one in a while.

ToxicPaddy

Originally posted by ecksor
I started putting the english stuff on my ham after watching my grandfather have it with any cold meats and saladas as a child.

Exact same thing happened to me..

At Christmas, my grand parents would always come out to the house for dinner
either on christmas day or stephens day and the usual condiments would be laid
out on the table and then this little yellow jar of mustard..

Always caught my eye but never tried it.. until one day my grandfather was having
a ham sandwich later that evening and the mustard was put on it, i advertantly
picked it up, bit into it and got this really weird tingling sensation on my tongue..
Loved the taste and the rest is history...

Have to say that the Dijon and irish whisky whole grain mustard are my favs tho..

Nyom Nyom

The Real B-man

mine was on holidays when i had it on a ham sambo but found out that i had being eating it for years on burgers and what not:D

Mossy Monk

my first experience of mustard was when i was about 8 or 9 and my mother used to have a jar of Colemans Mustard as a way of making me behave. if i did something wrong then i would be force fed mustard. put me off the stuff for many a year but i have since rekindled my love affair with the lovely mustard

ToxicPaddy

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
my first experience of mustard was when i was about 8 or 9 and my mother used to have a jar of Colemans Mustard as a way of making me behave. if i did something wrong then i would be force fed mustard. put me off the stuff for many a year but i have since rekindled my love affair with the lovely mustard

so its a kind of fetish now is it???

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by ToxicPaddy
so its a kind of fetish now is it???

a secksy fetish

deevey

I remeber doing the shopping when i was about 4 and really liked the bottle (y'knwo the sqeezy yellow french mustard bottles prolly dunnes stores best imitation) and persuaded my dad to buy it for me.........bet he didnt count on me having it gone 15 mins later ............................................STRAIGHT !!

Although i'v kinda become partial to the hotter stuff in recent years, guess taste in mustard must mature like a taste in women (with mustard:P ).

BEAT

my first time...
well I was about 5 or 6 and I remember my mom giving me a hotdog with mustard on it, I didnt like the smell of it but she made me try it and when i spit it out I discovered the first food or condiment I had ever not liked and it was mustard...ever since I cant stand the stuff.

I have been given burgers with the stuff on it since and I cant even eat it after wiping the stuff off, I have to throw the whole burger away because it has been ruined by the big bad "mustard".

Sarky

I saw a strange jar in the cupboard when over at my aunts and they were making prawn cocktails or something. I wondered what it tasted like, so I opened it, dipped in a finger, and bit the bullet, as it were.

I'd never before experienced my eyeballs perspiring.

I was hooked soon after...

turnback

I had a hotdog in america when I was 13 (late developper) at a baseball match and the guy said do you want mustard and I couldnt say no cos there was always this yellow crap on them in the ads so I said yes i will and then i ate it and it was nice and then i started using mustard regularly and mayonaisse and even gherkins and things like that. And pickle.

fozzle

Mine was an accidental swapping of ham sandwiches with my mum at Christmas about six years ago. I got fierce worried 'cos I thought the ham was gone off. 'Cept it was nice.:dunno:

ecksor

Originally posted by fozzle
Mine was an accidental swapping of ham sandwiches with my mum at Christmas about six years ago. I got fierce worried 'cos I thought the ham was gone off. 'Cept it was nice.:dunno:

Sounds like that pot noodle ad. "It feels so wrong and yet it feels so right!"

Amz

*snigger*

gigglingrat

I've never had mustard. Its always seems kinda....yellow. Any advice on where to begin?

Amz

Any of the mustard recipies on this forum would be ideal as they'd all be complimented by another food stuff.

Perhaps a whole grain mustard?

There is huge variety out there ranging from the very mild to the er... not so mild.

Each country seems to have it's own unique style/variety. Well worth experimenting with until you find your favourite.

Flashling

My first time was when I was making hot dogs, I felt there was something lacking so I went to the cupboard and poured an entire box of colmans mustard powder on the sausauge....memories.....

doonothing

i was oh so young, and my uncle was having mustard. curious as an ill-fated cat, i asked what it was.
"oh sure, try some..."
then gives me a gigantic, heaped tablespoonful of it.
my how i kicked...

gigglingrat

yup.

Stabshauptmann

you know when you're walking through a super market and they've got free samples of this and that, well I can never resist free stuff and well, lets just sasy I got hooked and it was down hill from there

LovelyTom

getting a spoonful in the eye... stung but when i put it in my mouth...it was...simply....okay-ish

Ivialianna

I'm from America, and mustard is kind of a fact of life there.... French's Mustard gets put on everything, hot dogs, hamburgers, sandwiches... you have hog dogs quite often living in America, and mustard just goes with hot dogs. I've never really thought about it, and never thought I would ever stumble on a forum about mustard... Do people really have mustard fetishes?

deevey

I'm from America, and mustard is kind of a fact of life there.... French's Mustard gets put on everything, hot dogs, hamburgers, sandwiches... you have hog dogs quite often living in America, and mustard just goes with hot dogs.

Do people really have mustard fetishes?

I think the statement answers the question ..

It does appear some cases are more severe than others .. sometimes whole populations have been affected, but can be very much in denial about how much they "love" the seed, It appears the US may be affected in this way -

Welcome to the first step in recognising your true life path

Dancor

One Christmas I asked my dads friend ''What does musturd taste like'' He said ''Take a spoon full'' dancor being smart said no and just tried a small scrape on his ham, The Musturd-Sandwich affair began.

Terry

Ivialianna wrote: »

I'm from America, and mustard is kind of a fact of life there.... French's Mustard gets put on everything, hot dogs, hamburgers, sandwiches... you have hog dogs quite often living in America, and mustard just goes with hot dogs. I've never really thought about it, and never thought I would ever stumble on a forum about mustard... Do people really have mustard fetishes?

I don't like frenchs mustard. It's too runny.

Anyway, on topic, my first taste was after a nightclub one night.

I was stranded in some hole in Meath and there was one of those vans which sell chips, hot dogs and burgers.
I bought a hot dog because that was all they had left and the guy put mustard on it.
The meat was rancid, but the mustard out-did itself and made the thing edible.

These days it's mustard only on take-away burgers. To hell with ketchup and mayonaisse.

Hivemind187

Cant remember my first mustard experience but I'llbet my brother will never forget his.

He was 4 or 5 and I told him that the Colemans Finest English on the dinner table was a jar of peanut butter and that he should get a spoonful of the stuff for hismelf before everyone ate some.

15 seconds later he was tearing around the house, hands waving in the air screaming from the burn.

Possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.

MrFoxman360

I first encountered mustard out working on a farm one day. I was starving with the hunger and the silage just kept coming and coming. I was weak with the hunger and my eyes popped out of my head when i saw the owner coming with a plate of sandwiches. Brown bread with ham, lovely!, but whats this yellow stuff? Ahh mustard! I hate that stuff :eek: . But the hunger got the better of me and i dug in. Nicest sandwiches ever! Nowadays would'nt even considir a ham sandwich with out mustard. Good old Colmans.

Swampy

Happy memories. It was left over bake ham form sunday lunch on a french baguette with colemans english mustard. The first sensation of the sinus burn and eye watering did it for me. I love it. Love it. Great with ham, beef and lamb. and everything else.

thejockey06

doonothing wrote: »

i was oh so young, and my uncle was having mustard. curious as an ill-fated cat, i asked what it was.
"oh sure, try some..."
then gives me a gigantic, heaped tablespoonful of it.
my how i kicked...

same here

eVeNtInE

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LorDar

My first memory of mustard is Colman's English variety & my parents used it as a deterrent - I was a thumb sucker as a child & when all else failed they used to dip my thumb into the mustard to stop me putting it in my mouth!!

Here we are 35 years later & I'm still a thumb sucker!! Guess it didn't work very well!
I like most mustards now, but Colman's English mustard is an exception! It still brings back the bad memories!

deleriumtremens

My first experience was when the mustard-monster violated me.

Love mustard ever since

Jammyc

Im 17 and a mustard virgin....
I may have had it by accindent in other times without knowing. But
I have never asked for mustard.:eek:

Jamfan

My Grandad gave me a sandwich when I was of a tender age... about seven or so.. he slathered about half an inch of mustard onto it and took much delight as I chomped into it. He use to crack up for 10 years afterwards whenever the memory of it occured to him.

When I was last in Germany I had a steak with fresh horseradish grated over it... wow! Awesome.

niamhy84

i will never ever touch mustard EVER! the only memory i have of that horrible stuff is my babysitter put it on my thumb to stop me suckin it..:o
how mean is that??!!:mad:

madra-rua

I used to stick out my tongue at people a lot when I was a child and one day my mother squirted a big load of mustard onto it when I stuck it out ... bit yucky at first but I still enjoy mustard on ham sandwiches :P:P

unreggd

Nearly chokin to death when me friend made me a ham sambo lathered in Colman's

happyfriday

Hivemind187 wrote: »

Cant remember my first mustard experience but I'llbet my brother will never forget his.

He was 4 or 5 and I told him that the Colemans Finest English on the dinner table was a jar of peanut butter and that he should get a spoonful of the stuff for hismelf before everyone ate some.

15 seconds later he was tearing around the house, hands waving in the air screaming from the burn.

Possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.

I did this at my grand parents house, think I was even about the same age. Didn't think it was peanut butter though just thought 'Oh that looks interesting' and my god was it. I was running around the dining room for what seemed like an hour and wasn't able to speak to tell anyone what was wrong with me. I swear it took about 2 days for the burning in my mouth and my eye watering to stop. But it never stopped me from trying it again (smaller portions after that) and now it is part of my daily life it goes on everything!!

citizen_p

when i was a kid and cursed i git a spoon full of it.... it shut me up

ChocolateSauce

My first experience was probably on the Burger King hamburgers. They had something that other ones did not; a gloopy yellow sauce which I later learned was called Mustard.

I put the sandwich in my mouth and my eyes watered with the hotness of this special condiment.

Posy

My uncle gave me a big spoon of yellow stuff when I was about three and said it was custard but when I ate it, it was mustard and I was very upset. Couldn't eat mustard OR custard for years after.

Max Power1

Posy wrote: »

My uncle gave me a big spoon of yellow stuff when I was about three and said it was custard but when I ate it, it was mustard and I was very upset. Couldn't eat mustard OR custard for years after.

So you dont like custard with hot mustard then?

Kersmash

As long as I can remember, my da makes the ham and the mustard on christmas eve. It's only recently I've discovered the joys of mustard on other types of food. Man, I love mustard.

Coriolanus

Getting a roast ham sandwich from Christoffes on Abbey St (sadly gone now ) and the young lady serving me mixing up my condiment selection. Mhmm, dijon mayonaisse and some hot hot English.
Convert for life after that!

raptor twin

Yass with the Ham olso

Bonito

Brennans pan. 3 Slices. Butter 1st slice. 2 slices of Denny/Shaws crumbed ham. Put Colmans mustard on to ham. Butter 2nd slice. Place on top. Butter top side of 2nd slice of bread. Place favourite cheese on top. I went for red a red cheddar slice. Another slice of ham. Don't butter last slice of bread. Put Colmans on to it. Place on top. Presto.

Made a mighty sambo for my 1st mustard experience. :cool: