I solemnly swear

[minoanmiss]

Iw ill never eat shwarma with ketchup!

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[bikergeek]

Who the FUCK would put ketchup on that? Ketchup is for burgers and fries, and maybe a glaze on meatloaf.

[minoanmiss]

You and the star of this channel would get along BEAUTIFULLY.

(It's a channel about an ebullient man hitting people with shoes when they eat shwarma with ketchup. I am sadly addicted)

[full_metal_ox]

Last I checked, wasn’t a fairly strong-flavored garlic sauce, on top of a strong and complex spiced marinade, already inherent to shwarma?

[dissectionist]

Or if you’re from Halifax, the standard donair sauce there involves powdered garlic, condensed milk, and a lot of sugar. I know it has its fans, but having tried it, I’m not one of them.

[full_metal_ox]

Evidently not a Jewish interpretation, then. (My introduction to shwarma, as well as chumus (their spelling) and falafel, was circa 1980 at Shalom, an Israeli-American restaurant in the Ohio State University campus neighborhood.)

[dissectionist]

It was a Greek immigrant who came up with that version in the 1970s. It took off and has been popular ever since; a lot of places elsewhere in Canada offer Halifax-style sauces now too.

[full_metal_ox]

Doesn’t surprise me, given the huge Greek-diasporic influence on Upper Midwestern food culture (see also Cincinnati chili.)

[minoanmiss]

.... that's a little sweet.

[full_metal_ox]

Sounds like it—and I assure you the sauce at Shalom was nothing of the kind. (The meat marinade was dark, savory and funky in ways I’d never before encountered—I’m hazarding a guess that cumin played a significant role.)

[bikergeek]

Coming from you, that's saying something.

[minoanmiss]

Thpt, my tastes have gotten dryer over the years. I am no longer the 18 year old who drank sweet pink wine.

[bikergeek]

You are now a 49 year old who drinks sweet pink wine. :-P

[minoanmiss]

Excuse me, dry pink wine.
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[bikergeek]

Uh huh.

[full_metal_ox]

I might actually like romcoms if the characters bantered like you two.

[bikergeek]

It's not just the banter. It's that rom-coms often contain multiple tropes that are actually Considered Harmful. In fact, a lot of them are like instruction manuals on how to get a restraining order taken out on you.

[minoanmiss]

Hee, remember when we watched Valley Girl? That one was TOTALLY "how to get a restraining order taken out on you." Admitedly it was made in a less enlightened age.

[bikergeek]

I don't, actually. Or maybe it was so bad I repressed it. :-P

[minoanmiss]

I think I wasn't twenty yet, and your response to it really impressed me (basically what you said here)

[minoanmiss]

blush WD is one of the best aspects of my life. He believes in my sapience which American men are not encouraged to believe in concerning American women.

[full_metal_ox]

He believes in my sapience which American men are not encouraged to believe in concerning American women.

Unless, of course, it has to do with cooking, cleaning, child care, or non-business social network maintenance. Then men suddenly become helpless infants and women summa cum laude.

[minoanmiss]

As magid mentions below, that condiment of glory is called zhug.

[cmcmck]

Some people will put ketchup on just about anything.

[bikergeek]

That, and ranch dressing. I was once in a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma City (visiting a friend there) and saw a gallon jug of the stuff. *shudder*

[acelightning73]

I won't even mention brown sauce...

[cmcmck]

Other half is a huge fan of HP.

[acelightning73]

THere's a short video in which a restaurant customer orders a waegyu steak, and then asks for some ketchup.

[magid]

The condiments for shawarma include tahini, zhug (red or green), and/or amba (a pickled mango sauce). Ketchup is Right Out.

Ketchup is appropriate on meatloaf, hamburger, fries, scrambled eggs with potatoes and onions.