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Subject: Re: rpbc's - sad face
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:59:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Jill McQuown wrote:

> On 2/11/2025 5:30 PM, Carol wrote:
> > Jill McQuown wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2/10/2025 5:15 PM, songbird wrote:
> >>>   dinner this evening will be fishsticks with homemade
> > > > tartar sauce.  i made a quart just after having breakfast
> > > > and that will get us through our current supply of
> > > > fish sticks.  the main and primary ingredient is dill
> > > > pickles so it is important to get ones that are really
> > > > good.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> >>>   songbird
> > > 
> > > Okey doke.  I fail to see the need to make homemade tartar sauce
> > > for [presumeably] frozen fish sticks but hey, knock yourself out!
> > > I hope you and your mom enjoy dinner. :)
> > > 
> > > Jill
> > 
> > 2 reasons I can see.
> > 
> > 1- One less thing to keep in stock.  If you already have mayo and
> > pickles, you can omit adding Tartar sauce to your shopping list
> > (then carrying it to the car and from the car to your house).
> > 
> > 2- BIG markup as opposed to making it.  Takes really just mao and
> > some type of pickles (several types work).  Optionally may add
> > extra dill to taste and.or mustard.  Some add lemon juice to taste,
> > I skip lemon and use just a little pickle juice.
> 
> My comment was actually more about the frozen fish sticks than it was
> the homemade tartar sauce.  I haven't found any frozen fish sticks
> worth spending money on in years.  Homemade tartar sauce is kind of
> like putting lipstick on a pig. ;)
> 
> Jill

Well ok but the comment was all about the sauce.  As to fish sticks,
they arent fine cuisine and never were.  They aare just quick and most
of us had them as kids and liked them.