Author Topic: Soy Sauce: Lachoy vs Kikkoman Cage Match (Read 14965 times)

Regolith · « **Reply #25 on:** July 17, 2009, 02:26:24 PM »

The most I use at any one time is 1/3 cup, for a sauce mix that makes 2-3 cups.

Otherwise, it's used pretty sparingly.

K Frame · « **Reply #26 on:** July 17, 2009, 02:53:30 PM »

Strictly speaking, LaChoy's doesn't produce soy sauce.

They MANUFACTURE a soy sauce substitute.

roo_ster · « **Reply #27 on:** July 17, 2009, 10:12:10 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 17, 2009, 02:53:30 PM

Strictly speaking, LaChoy's doesn't produce soy sauce.

They MANUFACTURE a soy sauce substitute.

Sounds like the "American Cheese" of soy sauces.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 17, 2009, 10:29:44 PM »

I use soy sauce with a dollop of wasabi mixed in for my sushi.

Granted, it ain't the real wasabi that I found in my many travels to Japan, but I discovered the bit about dipping chunks of sushi in soy over there, too.

So I'll simply disagree about the ketchup analogy.

41magsnub · « **Reply #29 on:** July 17, 2009, 11:25:40 PM »

Quote from: jfruser on July 17, 2009, 10:12:10 PM

Sounds like the "American Cheese" of soy sauces.

No, this is the LaChoy of cheeses:

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #30 on:** July 18, 2009, 12:09:16 AM »

It has to be better than American Cheese. I simply don't understand why anyone living above the poverty line has American Cheese or bologna in their ice-boxes.

Or white sandwich bread.

crt360 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2009, 03:26:55 AM »

Maybe it's just the Soviet Cheese of soy sauces.

LadySmith · « **Reply #32 on:** July 18, 2009, 05:37:46 AM »

Quote from: fistful on July 18, 2009, 12:09:16 AM

It has to be better than American Cheese. I simply don't understand why anyone living above the poverty line has American Cheese or bologna in their ice-boxes. Or white sandwich bread.

When you're used to eating substandard fare, that's what you become comfortable with.
Anything else tastes funny, at least in the beginning.

Took me a while to even get used to fresh, hot meals.

bedlamite · « **Reply #33 on:** July 18, 2009, 05:59:39 AM »

Quote from: LadySmith on July 18, 2009, 05:37:46 AM

Took me a while to even get used to fresh, hot meals.

What's that? Is that where you put a slice of Kraft singles between the bread as soon as it pops out of the toaster?

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #34 on:** July 18, 2009, 09:31:10 AM »

Quote

I simply don't understand why anyone living above the poverty line has American Cheese or bologna in their ice-boxes. Or white sandwich bread.

Dude, why do you hate America so much?

IMHO, there's nothing better on a cold winter day than a grilled cheese sandwich made with Kraft Singles on white bread, with a bowl of tomato soup.

It doesn't mean I bought the stuff with food stamps...

K Frame · « **Reply #35 on:** July 18, 2009, 09:36:58 AM »

"So I'll simply disagree about the ketchup analogy."

I didn't say it WAS ketchup, I said that far too many people used it like ketchup, instead of very sparingly, as it's intended to be used.

Sit in any Chinese or Japanese restaurant some time and do a little people watching. Invariably you'll see at least one, and frequently many more, people who dump the stuff on like it's the last time they're ever going to taste it.

K Frame · « **Reply #36 on:** July 18, 2009, 09:37:41 AM »

For once, and this is a VERY rare thing, I actually agree with Fistful.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #37 on:** July 18, 2009, 10:03:46 AM »

Quote from: LadySmith on July 18, 2009, 05:37:46 AM

When you're used to eating substandard fare, that's what you become comfortable with.

A guy I know (who also happens to be black, FWIW) eats fried bologna sandwiches for comfort food. Reminds him of childhood.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 18, 2009, 12:37:30 PM »

So comfort food has to be ritzy?

(I don't get it, hence my asking...)

IOW, my new job puts me several tax brackets higher.

That doesn't mean I'm going to stop eating grilled cheese sandwiches and soup, or Fritos and Hormel chili, or mixing together a can of Campbell's Chili Beef with a box of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.

Then again, I have a case or three of MREs in the basement...

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #39 on:** July 18, 2009, 12:46:35 PM »

Quote from: Gewehr98 on July 18, 2009, 12:37:30 PM

So comfort food has to be ritzy?

(I don't get it, hence my asking...)

No, no, I didn't say that.

Did we hurt your widdle feewings?

I crave McD's puck-burgers from time to time.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 18, 2009, 01:34:34 PM »

No, didn't hurt my feelings.

Just trying to figure out the rationale, vs. ascribing some sort of food intolerance thing...

We can fix the latter.

I have your address. I can send you some balut.

mfree · « **Reply #41 on:** July 18, 2009, 07:17:30 PM »

American cheese is just fine, as long as it's American CHEESE. IIRC there's cheese, which is, notably, cheese... cheese product, which is lightly abused real cheese (formed and molded, for example), cheese food product, which is cheese with additives and abused ( velveeta, as I recall)....

..... and then processed cheese food product, which is most pre-wrapped singles, and some may have come as close as 8' to actual milk, passing a tanker of it on the highway.

Trouble is, cheese doesn't usually melt well. The blend in American lends itself to melting w/o the fats bleeding off like cheddar does... heat a slice of real cheddar slowly, you'll watch it "sweat" milk fat and turn into a rubbery lump before it actually melts.

K Frame · « **Reply #42 on:** July 18, 2009, 10:01:48 PM »

Quote from: Gewehr98 on July 18, 2009, 01:34:34 PM

No, didn't hurt my feelings.

Just trying to figure out the rationale, vs. ascribing some sort of food intolerance thing...

We can fix the latter.

I have your address. I can send you some balut.

It has nothing to do with Ritz and everything to do with the incredible suckitude of white bread and plastic cheeselike products.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 19, 2009, 01:32:06 AM »

Can't speak to that suckitude bit, Mike. It sounds rather subjective, but then again, it's your forum, so have at it.

I also cannot eat whole wheat bread without gagging, it reminds me of biting into a loaf of sawdust, so in my house it's Sara Lee Whole Grain White.

That's my concession to the sawdust loaf folks, I go no further than that.

Having grown up on Kraft Singles (which actually have moo juice involved in their manufacture) melted between two slices of Wonder/Holsum/Sunbeam white bread, I have to agree with Mfree's assessment about trying to melt a slab of Cheddar into a grilled cheese sandwich. Even on a dairy farm, we knew what made the best grilled cheese.

Obviously, I'm in a minority here, and I struck a nerve.

K Frame · « **Reply #44 on:** July 19, 2009, 08:44:53 AM »

I think the only nerve you struck here is your own, Darrin.

"it's your forum, so have at it."

What the hell is up with that?

I thought one of the wonderful things about this forum was that we could each share our OPINIONS about what we do, and do not, like and not get a case of hurtzies...

LadySmith · « **Reply #45 on:** July 19, 2009, 09:45:55 AM »

Would y'all please stop?

If for no other reason than you're making kitty sad.

I'm sorry I like American cheese.
I don't know any better.
Where I come from, it was eat what was available or die, so I learned to like it and be happy for it.

I'm just glad the only thing available wasn't balut.

K Frame · « **Reply #46 on:** July 19, 2009, 09:56:12 AM »

If you like it, good for you. Eat more pasteurized cheese food product and support American jobs.

Firethorn · « **Reply #47 on:** July 19, 2009, 11:08:49 AM »

I like real american cheese, for stuff that I'm going to be melting.

Failing availability of the real stuff, I go for 'cheese food product'; IE whatever's closest to real cheese.

I don't touch the stuff that's so artificial it doesn't need to be refrigerated*, made out of vegetable oil, etc...

*Though by the same token proper cheese has less need of cooling than what many people think.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #48 on:** July 19, 2009, 11:26:01 AM »

I fail to see the problem with being a bigot about a trivial subject like food tastes.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 19, 2009, 11:44:43 AM »

Said too much.

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Author Topic: Soy Sauce: Lachoy vs Kikkoman Cage Match (Read 14965 times)