Two Decades Late, Drudge Discovers That Americans Like Salsa

[Cali_Democrat]

Matt Drudge is one of the biggest bigots out there and his website is one of the main places conservatives go to get their news.

By Joshua Keating

As I write, the Drudge Report’s top spot is occupied by the tasteful image above. Salsa has evidently overtaken ketchup because … Mexicans! (It’s a well-known fact that non-Mexicans never consume salsa.)

Racial panic issues aside, Matt Drudge is about two decades late on this. The headline links to a fairly innocuous AP story about how America’s changing demographics are influencing eating habits, which begins with the lede “Salsa overtaking ketchup as America's No. 1 condiment was just the start.”

It was indeed “just the start” in 1992 when it was first reported. "The taste for salsa is as mainstream as apple pie these days," David A. Weiss, the president of Packaged Facts Inc., told the New York Times in that fateful year when we learned that America's favorite condiment was being outsold by a picante imposter from south of the border.

As readers are well aware, life in America has just not been the same since the king of condiments was dethroned. It's now nearly impossible to find ketchup, in any of its 57 varieties, in U.S. stores. By the end of Obama’s second term, it will surely be banned entirely. I can only anticipate the horrors that will await us in the great Sriracha infestation of 2018.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/10/17/drudge_reports_that_salsa_has_overtaken_ketchup_in_the_united_states_21.html

[dawg]

1. Americans love pizza!

Truly, Mussolini has won.

[cali]

8. .....

send that to drudge.

[Blue_Tires]

2. mustard and hot sauce or GTFO

[jberryhill]

11. Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Like this:

[Erose999]

15. Mustard n' french fried taters mmhmmm

[Barack_America]

3. The Hispanics are coming! It's all over for the white man!

The proof is in the salsa! We just got our asses handed to us by Obama! Someone sound the dog whistle, quick!




Disgustingly transparent, as usual.

[arcane1]

4. He's several centuries late: ketchup is made from tomatoes, which are native to...

MEXICO!!!!

[johnp3907]

5. Ketchup IS salsa, isn't?

I mean "salsa" means "sauce," doesn't it?

And do these numbers take catsup into account?

[cali]

10. no, different culinary heritages

the origin of ketchup is far eastern- China, Malaysia

[Siwsan]

6. Apparently, Drudge is not a fan of Seinfeld reruns

From 1992 (I think)

GEORGE: "Why don't they have salsa on the table?"

JERRY: "What do you need salsa for?"

GEORGE: "Salsa is now the number one condiment in America."

[Boom Sound 416]

24. Because Americans like to say, "salsa!"

[MicaelS]

7. I love Salsa, eat it all the time.

With damn near anything. When I was a kid I used to put Ketchup on everything, annoyed my mother to no end. But my Salsa intake flew past my Ketchup intake a long time ago.

[RebelOne]

9. I have three different kinds of hot sauce

in my pantry. I love my food hot and spicy. And when I eat Italian food, I use red pepper flakes liberally.

[jberryhill]

12. Another red flakey liberal, eh?

[pinboy3niner]

13. Those damn pinko condimentists are EVERYWHERE!1!!

[jberryhill]

17. I'm not going to throw around unsavory words with you today

[pinboy3niner]

19. Well isn't that sweet of you?

What we have here is a failure to contumerate.

[Aerows]

20. I'm not sure where you oregano with this one...

It looks like it's thyme to quit while you are ahead!

[pinboy3niner]

21. I put a down-pimiento on this thread, so you'll be cayenne in your beer if you think I'm done

I'd recommend against carrying a chipotle on your shoulder.

[Aerows]

22. If you think I'm garlic those statements

you have another tincture coming!

Basil-ly you are wrong, and I refuse to parsley words!

[Erose999]

16. Cholula or Valentina. If I were eating crow like the House GOP today thats what I'd put on it.

[Paladin]

18. What a clueless, moronic bigot.

Hey Drudge: My family and I go through a hell of a lot more Pace's salsa than we do ketchup, as do most of my friends. It's been that way for years. Hell, when I'm in an ambitious mood, I make my own salsa, from scratch; I've never felt the need to create ketchup. Oh, and before I forget to mention it: I'm Caucasian, as is my family, as are most of my salsa-loving friends. Idiot.

[cristianmarie533]

23. Further proof that Drudge is useless trash that isn't even worth using as toilet paper

I LOVE salsa, by the way. Especially salsa that's homemade.

[Islandurp]

25. It's because people like to say salsa

[Shrike47]

26. Damn, we were selling out America and we didn't even know it! Made salsa this year.