Condiment
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A condiment is a substance applied to food, usually in the form of a sauce, powder, or spread, to enhance or improve the flavor. Condiments are typically smeared with knives, squirted, or sprinkled onto other foods.
Commercially prepared condiments are usually packaged in glass or plastic containers. Plastic has displaced glass in a number of applications where plastic's squeezability is an advantage, such as for ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and other condiments with a paste-like consistency.
Some commercial venues (especially packaged meals dispensed by airlines and in some cafeterias), condiments are packaged in single-serving packets.
Examples of condiments include:
- Barbecue sauce
- Belacan
- Brown sauce
- Chutneys
- Cocktail sauce
- Fish sauce
- Fry sauce
- Horseradish sauce
- Hot sauces based on chili, including Tabasco sauce
- Ketchup and Tomato Sauce
- Lime and Lemon juice
- Mayonnaise
- Mixed pickle
- MSG
- Mustard
- Pepper
- Raita
- Relish
- Remoulade
- Salsa
- Salt
- Sambal
- Sauerkraut (sometimes seen as a condiment on sausages or hot dogs, occasionally seen as a side dish)
- Soy sauce
- Steak sauces such as A1, Heinz 57, and HP Sauce
- Sweet chilli sauce
- Tabasco sauce
- Tajín
- Tartar sauce
- Trassi
- Tzatziki (occasionally seen as an appetizer, more often used as a condiment that accompanies gyros and other dishes)
- Wasabi
- Worcestershire sauce
External links
- [Condiment Packet Museum]
- [Condiment Man]
- {http://www.condiment-man.com
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