June 12th, 2008
#528 - Faux pas
I really like potato salad. I really dislike mustard. This results in me sometimes being very excited and then immediately repulsed when seeing a bowl of potato salad from across the room and then getting to inspect it up close. Sometimes my wife will say “What are you even talking about, you can’t even taste the mustard in this!” Yes I can… yes… I… can.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:03 am
For the anecdote: I find that people who like a particular condiment have a harder time tasting it in something.
For the comic: A sensible precaution.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Call me crazy, but I don’t really give a flyin’ hoot what another entree feels. If something tastes good, then by George, I’m gonna eat it.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Huh, you’d like my mother’s potato salad then, no mustard in it as far as I know, just eggs, potatoes, chives, and mayonnaise I think. It’s not a sickly yellow color like that potato salad is.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:49 am
If the potato salad can’t hack the competition, it can always sneer at the mashed potatoes.
I like mustard. My wife doesn’t. The ONLY place she’ll eat it is in potato salad.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
I would much rather have french fries than potato salad.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I remember anytime you added “salad” to a word when I was a kid, I was immediately repulsed. Although they’re both tolerable to me now, I simply could not stand eating potato or egg salad when I was a kid, no matter how you dressed it up. Awkward, too, because although it seems to be a staple for any kind of barbeque’d outing, it’s more or less the only thing I won’t eat. Corn? Gimme? Burgers and Hot dogs? Sure. Ribs? Why not? Potato Salad? Ugh, no thanks…
June 12th, 2008 at 4:07 am
I think the potato salad is going more offended by the fact that it’s going to be eaten an expelled out of an anus.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:15 am
OMG, yes. I feel the same way about Miracle Whip. Other people will often say it’s mayo, but it’s not. It’s mayo defiled by mustard.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:20 am
o.k., I offended the potato salad, I can believe that. but how do I make it up to the potato salad? eat it? give it extra dressing? perhaps invent a way so that it won’t expelled from the body in quite such a way, trevor?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:35 am
I have the same thing… I hate mustard, but I use in quite a few of my receipes, but always make sure I use no more than required so it isn’t a dominant flavour.
Same thing with mayo as well, no idea who invented that disgusting stuff.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:03 am
I have always been puzzled by the prevalence in picnic fayre of ’salads’ like potato salad, tuna salad, pasta salad, prawn marie rose, et alia. It’s as if someone purposefully sat down and thought “What, of all foods, is most likely to turn poisonous if left outdoors in the heat and sun for an hour or so? We’ll have that at our picnic! Outdoors! In the hot sun!”
June 12th, 2008 at 7:44 am
hmm i actually never heard that someone puts mustard or eggs in a potato salad… kinda weird idea to combine this stuff…
besides that i love sweet mustard… and french salad ^^ eggs, pasta, mayonnaise, vinegar, apples and lots of potatoes
June 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Weird, I don’t like potato salad or mustered. My little brother likes mustered, he gets it all over him self.
Biff needs a vacation.
Don’t panic: FSOneblin
June 12th, 2008 at 8:49 am
What’s up with Biff’s head today? It looks a bit “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Mustard? In potato salad? Weird… I only put potatoes, mayo, onion and egg in potato salad. I was wondering why on American t.v. shows the potato salad always looks yellow… I thought maybe American potatoes were a special kind and cooked yellow or something.
Awesome comic dude! Love Biff and always will.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:59 am
You should try German Potato salad.
4 potatoes
4 slices bacon
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/2 cup chopped green onions
salt and pepper to taste
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes; cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and chop.
Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside. Reserve bacon fat.
Add the flour, sugar, water and vinegar to skillet and cook in reserved bacon fat over medium heat until dressing is thick.
Add bacon, potatoes and green onions to skillet and stir until coated. Cook until heated and season with salt and pepper. Serve warm
June 12th, 2008 at 9:08 am
@FSOneblin: Biff has had a vacation.
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/01/12/167-vacation/
June 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
@Rakala - I think I dislike vinegary salads just as much. :0
June 12th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I have the same repulsion to any food that has bell peppers in it, no matter how little. Its horrid taste kills anything good in all food around and I won’t eat.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:45 am
@Matthew - You /probably/ have the French to blame for it.
I’m also not a fan of mustard. I think the only thing I eat that has a prevalence of mustard in it is deviled eggs.
Oh, yeah, and anyone who makes any type of potato, egg, or tuna salad with onion in it is just weird. Crunchy /anything/ in egg salad is disgusting!
^-.-^
June 12th, 2008 at 10:26 am
The best part of the Biff comics are the subtly-imparted moral lessons that we can apply to our own lives. Tips for personal safety, home maintenance, and today, good manners! Thanks, Book of Biff!
June 12th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Potato salad is relatively forgiving.
I’m sure if you apologized to it, it would be chill about the situation.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am
@Rakala; I like german potato salads, too. My wife, on the other hand, would rather fling it at me than eat it.
More for me.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I hate mustard, but I prefer my potato salad to have mustard in it. Too much can ruin it, though.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
WHO CARES! French fries are WAAAAAY better
June 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
French fries ARE way better. I love mustard, i don’t know why all of you hate it! How do you eat a hot dog??? With Ketchup? Nuh-uh.
O well. I hate potato salad eaither way. French fries are way better, like “random person” said.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
It’s the person who brought the potato salad I’d be more worried about. They’re watching your reaction to the potato salad, and they’ll come after you if you don’t sample it. Rawr! But good thing there’s no one else in Biffland but Biff.
And I adore mustard but not on potato salad… mayo all the way.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
More people like mayonnaise than mustard? I like mustard, vinegar, all sorts of acidic flavorings. To me mayonnaise is disgusting. It’s like eating lard paste with eggs. Since potato salad has mayonnaise I’ve never even bothered to eat it — and I’m in the South. Here it’s a staple food.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
@Jayne Squared: What’s your recipe? Every potato salad I’ve eaten holds grudges until I flush.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Andara Bledin: “Crunchy /anything/ in egg salad is disgusting!”
My grandmother used to make an *EXCELLENT* egg-salad with diced celery in it. Mmmmmm-Mmm!!! Om Nom Nom…
June 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Om nom nom nom.
I actually love potato salad… So long as meat outnumbers veggies in it. Seriously, I’m a freakin’ carnivore. I won’t eat anything unless there’s some meat involved.
Protien FTW!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:05 am
So many fussy eaters.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Ketchup goes good on hotdogs and on hamburgers.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I can’t get over biffs head in this one, it looks like it’s sticking out in the back.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hmm, I never thought of that, I’ll go say sorry next time I see potatoe salad
September 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
My girlfriend recently got me to eat deviled eggs. I had never had them before, but she insisted I would like them. They weren’t too bad, but there was a hidden flavor that kept bothering me. Turns out it was ketchup. I loathe ketchup with a fiery burning passion, but she insisted there was no way I could possibly distinguish it from the other flavors. She was very wrong.