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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2021 14:42:14 GMT
I also have some from the Chinese supermarket, with Chinese writing on the label, although I suppose that it was made in the same place as the ones without Chinese writing. Frankly, I'm not sure what Asians use it for. I use it exclusively on steak tartare.
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2021 15:22:06 GMT
I suspect you are referring to soy sauce K2, but, I trust you know better than to confuse the two. Totally different than Worcestershire sauce.
And while there are other brands of it, such as French's and a couple of others. Lea & Perrins is far superior to them.I know this because I did a blind "taste test" at a restaurant last week when we went out to eat oysters on the half shell just out of curiosity.
Even if it says Lea and Perrins on the bottle and wasn't soy sauce as I may have mistakenly posted. if it didn't have the classic packaging with the brown paper wrapping, it's not the authentic product. Call it a "knock off" of the real product.
Call me a food snob but, I prefer "purist".
(Does the Chinese one come in a brown bottle with a beige paper wrapping around it including the cap?)
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Post by Kimby on Mar 28, 2021 15:25:33 GMT
I have a bottle of L&P Worcestershire sauce, opened and of unknown vintage. I don’t seem to find any use for it, so would sell to the highest bidder, no guarantees of its palatability. Its low sodium, if that matters.  The expiration date is 2016, so not even 5 years outdated! It’s about 2/3 used up, however...or evaporated...
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Post by Kimby on Mar 28, 2021 15:32:31 GMT
PS, does Tabasco Sauce expire? Can’t find a date on my dusty little bottle of Tabasco.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 28, 2021 15:43:48 GMT
Mine did not have a date on it either Kimby, so I did throw out a bottle recently because it looked darker so I thought it might have soured. I also threw out a bottle of vanilla extract (no date either) as it did not smell right and the label was yellowed, I probably had it a long time!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2021 15:50:23 GMT
I suspect you are referring to soy sauce K2. Totally different than worcestershire sauce. It's marked Lea & Perrins Worcestersire Sauce on the label in the Roman alphabet and also "made in Worcester England" in a brown bottle with an orange and black label. How could you imagine that I wouldn't know the difference with soy sauce, which I know what Asians use it for. However, I have never seen the label pictured on Kimby's bottle. However, I googled Worcestershire sauce and the wikipedia article says that the Chinese call it "spicy soy sauce."  So I guess that clears up how they use it. Google comes up with other replies like "10 Asian recipes using Worcestershire sauce" but I did not check them out. Worcestershire sauce wiki
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2021 15:52:39 GMT
I suspect you are referring to soy sauce K2, but, I trust you know better than to confuse the two. Totally different than Worcestershire sauce. And while there are other brands of it, such as French's and a couple of others. Lea & Perrins is far superior to them.I know this because I did a blind "taste test" at a restaurant last week when we went out to eat oysters on the half shell just out of curiosity. Even if it says Lea and Perrins on the bottle and wasn't soy sauce as I may have mistakenly posted. if it didn't have the classic packaging with the brown paper wrapping, it's not the authentic product. Call it a "knock off" of the real product. Call me a food snob but, I prefer "purist". (Does the Chinese one come in a brown bottle with a beige paper wrapping around it including the cap?)
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Post by tod2 on Mar 28, 2021 16:04:46 GMT
Hey! What happened to LAZENBY'S Worcestershire sauce? Thats the one I always buy. And are you guys saying the word "Worcestershire" correctly? I bet you are not! It's Wor - sester sauce. Forget about adding in the Shire part. If you do, don't say SHYER at the end. Just SHA. Worcestersha sauce.
Am I right Mick and Mark?
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2021 16:11:35 GMT
I know the pronunciation, but it pleases me to write the complete name.
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2021 16:19:04 GMT
Hey! What happened to LAZENBY'S Worcestershire sauce? Thats the one I always buy. And are you guys saying the word "Worcestershire" correctly? I bet you are not! It's Wor - sester sauce. Forget about adding in the Shire part. If you do, don't say SHYER at the end. Just SHA. Worcestersha sauce. Am I right Mick and Mark? Tod, I have heard a number of pronunciations of the word. It's a regional thing here in the US. Even in NOLA some say it pronounced a couple of different ways. Some pronounce it SHYER and others say SHEAR or SHEER. I have never heard of LAZENBY'S.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2021 16:58:38 GMT
Yup. Worcester sauce. Never "shyer" btw in Worcestershire. Sheer or shear is fine.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 28, 2021 17:17:02 GMT
Wusta sauce.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2021 19:16:40 GMT
That is the Nottingham dialect. |
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 28, 2021 20:01:00 GMT
It is comprehensible though.
But not so much in written form.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 28, 2021 22:55:35 GMT
Wusta-sure here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2021 23:28:22 GMT
"Salsa Inglesa" here.
I do own a bottle of the stuff, the Great Value (Walmart) brand, but don't know how many years old it is. It's not something I use very often. I do remember a light-colored worcestershire sauce when I lived in the US, & also remember buying it more than once although now I can't remember why I needed it.
As far as I know, the "correct" pronunciation in the US is "woostersheer", which I'm sure everyone is now writing down in a little notebook.
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2021 23:50:23 GMT
We use it ALOT. In sauces, cocktails, marinades, soups and some other things I can't recall right now.
We would never go without having some in our pantry.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2021 23:56:01 GMT
I can probably guess some of the things you use it for and don't quite know why I don't use it more. The reason I keep it (besides for micheladas) is because every once in a while I'll know something I'm making needs something, but what? That's usually time to trot out the English Sauce. |
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Post by tod2 on Mar 29, 2021 7:36:36 GMT
I have never heard of LAZENBY'S. I don't have any in the store cupboard to show you what the label looks like but hey! I found another make you probably have not heard of either....Holbrooks.  |
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Post by casimira on Mar 29, 2021 12:54:34 GMT
No, I have never seen Holbrook's Sauce here. We do have several Colman's products here however. (mustard is the main one that comes to mind).
Likely because there's no market for it here.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 29, 2021 16:10:16 GMT
Likely because there's no market for it here. Oh, I thought you posted you use it a lot in cocktail sauces, marinades and soups.... |
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Post by casimira on Mar 29, 2021 18:13:05 GMT
Sorry for the confusion but, I meant we use Lea & Perrins. I have never heard or seen Holbrook's sauce anywhere here.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2021 23:13:54 GMT
Yup. Worcester sauce. Never "shyer" btw in Worcestershire. Sheer or shear is fine. 
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Post by bjd on May 14, 2021 6:30:22 GMT
So Bertie Wooster's name was actually Bertie Worcester?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2021 18:07:53 GMT
With restaurant terraces reopening tomorrow in France, the wholesalers are saying that there was a huge surge in sales of seafood and organ meats, two items that the French prefer to eat in restaurants rather than at home.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2021 14:39:43 GMT
So, isn't it time to talk about this subject again? Some people have been living off delivery foods, others might still be washing the items they bring back from the store. Has covid changed anything about your meals permanently?
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Post by htmb on Aug 18, 2021 15:19:02 GMT
I haven’t been much of a drinker for many years now, but I found that I’ve consumed even less alcohol during the pandemic than before. I think it’s very odd, but assume, in the back of my mind, I realized I could very easily do nothing but "drown my sorrows" in the bottle. I’ve also hardly eaten any beef. I’m not sure what that’s all about. It probably has nothing to do with the pandemic, but I’ve become much more discerning about quality.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2021 17:16:55 GMT
I have to echo what both of you said, Htmb and Huckle.
As far as alcohol, I simply haven't wanted any. I usually have one or two bottles of wine on hand, but wind up keeping them so long they probably improve from aging. More strange to me is that I mostly haven't wanted any beer usually my alcoholic preference. I can't pronounce on beef, since I lost almost all desire for it even before the pandemic.
In the case of food delivery, I pray every day that Walmart never stops grocery delivery, pandemic or no pandemic. Choosing & ordering online is infinitely preferable to physically visiting the store, repacking everything before going out to find a cab, etc. I also prefer to cook at home rather than order from a restaurant. I could live on vegetables, but don't order produce from the supermarket because I live right next to a market. A main difference caused by using the online supermarket is that I may be getting smarter from ordering & eating so much frozen fish.
Amazon Mexico is not the cornucopia of exotica that the US version probably is, but it is a source of fish sauce, pickled ginger, and other delights.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 18, 2021 17:25:38 GMT
My habits have barely changed. A bit more alcohol more out of boredom than anything else.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2021 17:38:50 GMT
I don't think that my habits have changed too much either, except for eating 99% of my meals at home instead of just 90%. Living in a central section of a big city had had considerable influence as well. During lockdown, my trips to buy food were my one and only outing so they probably became even more precious. I still remember the early trips to Monoprix where we would act like opposing magnets whenever encountering anybody in the same aisle. It was proabably a bit stupid, but we'll never knwo. Keeping away from other people was definitely a survival skill.
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