Does anyone here do that?

My roomate in Prague introduced me to the concept of mixing ketchup and mayo for fries. So if it is available, that's what I do.

I do, occasionally. More often mustard. I picked up the mayo habit from my DH, who picked in up from when he lived in Europe as a kid.

I could also rave all day about treats (soft drinks, candies, cookies, desserts)

Yes to this. My word.

See, that stuff about making GTA:San Andreas an adults-only game is just weird to me. Why is showing sex so much worse than showing murder? The M rating was just fine for GTA:Vice City, where as Jars mentioned you can hire, use, and then kill prostitutes...but since they only show the car rocking, it's okay.

I mean, I'm not planning on letting Mal play games like that until he's about 17, but that's their current rating, so I'm cool with it.

Thanks to this conversation, I think I'm now going to have to have F&B for lunch (even if they have changed their once-exciting hot dog menu into a far more mundane one, they're still the only place in walking distance where I can get frites with garlic aioli).

Now I want a Lilt. Them's good.

More on mayo, and my mother's cooking - she always served Jell-O with mayo. Is that an Iowa thing or a Depression-era thing, or what?

Also, Cindy (or anyone) - do you have a recipe for making your own rice cereal for babies? Sugar is the second ingredient in all the store-bought ones here.

she always served Jell-O with mayo. Is that an Iowa thing or a Depression-era thing, or what?

I think it's a no-taste-buds thing.

She loves to tell how she had no idea about cooking anything when she got married and how it means that everybody has a chance. She is also, I should note, the picture that can appear in the dictionary next to the definition of "optimist".

Nilly's Mother being delightful, this shocks me. Not.

Yeah, potatoes are so starchy, there's really no mixing them with other starches. It puts a whole new spin on redundancy.

There's a restaurant here that makes a mashed potato pizza -- crust, mashed potatoes, bacon crumbles, cheddar cheese, drizzled with sour cream. Guh. It's *almost* carb overload. But not quite.

I still don't understand why it's never caught on here, given the extreme nastiness of ketchup and the utter perfection of the fry/mayo combination.

I love tartar sauce on my fries, and that's basically mayo. Or, at least, it's closer to mayo than to ketchup.

Fries with mayo = awesome, although I never think to do it outside of frites. Some foreigners next to me at McDonald's the other day asked for a side of mayo with their fries. It had never occured to me to put mayo on McDonald's fries! Sometimes I'm not very bright.

Also, apparently the best restaurant in the world is in England. I read it in Vanity Fair, so it must be true.

Wow, what an awesome trip Meara.