[Sca-cooks] Oops!

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Pixel, Goddess and Queen:
> >I'm talking about incidents like the Passover reubens at my husband's
> >fraternity house, where the chef was requested to make reubens for dinner,
> >so he did. Phil is 1st-generation Italian, reubens aren't his specialty.
> >(He does make amazing pesto and lasagne, though.) Anyway, he knew that you
> >put Russian dressing on reubens (nobody argue with me on that, I am merely
> >relating a story), but he had no idea how to make said dressing. So he
> >took mayonnaise and mixed it with the first appropriately colored
> >ingredient he could find--Tabasco sauce. This was bad enough for the
> >goyim, but for the brothers who were keeping kosher for Passover and
> >having their reubens on matzoh it was apparently extremely painful.
> 
> Tobasco is painful??? Curiouser and curiouser...
> 
> Hmmm... Russian dressing... made with mayo and Thai Sriracha chili sauce...
> 
> Adamantius

Tabasco in the quantities necessary to make mayonnaise the correct color 
and consistency as Russian dressing is painful. Or so I am told. And when 
you can't even have bread or beer to offset it, it's worse.

Margaret