May 11, 2009  

If running shoes come next, US America will become a shoeless nation!

In my mustard making and selling days.

Our recent furor over President Obama preferring Dijon mustard on his hamburger almost compels me to get back into my mustard business. My Anton's Dijon was popular when I had my Mustard Emporium in Toronto's St. Lawrence Market.
     I manufactured and sold more than 30 varieties of mustard. My Anton's Dijon would be even more popular now with an endorsement from President Obama. My mustards were popular at 22 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, but I never thought of approaching White House chefs. Perhaps I should have.

Dijon gets its mustard from Canada
Most US Americans and even Canadians don't know that Canada grows more than 90% of our world's supply with Southern Alberta counting for most of it. In order to be certified as Dijon mustard, France insists that manufacturers prove that they exclusively use Brown Mustard seed grown in Canada. Besides tasting good, it could be said that President Obama's choice of a mustard condiment was simply helping Canada's agricultural industry.
    Perhaps US American's would like to know some history of their so-called US American yellow mustard. Like so many Canadian innovations of the 1800s and early 1900s, US America claims them as their own.
    Actually an Englishman, George Dunn created it while he was building a mustard processing plant in Hamilton, Ontario back in 1867. Dunn's is still in Hamilton. I bought all of my mustard seeds there. It is our world's largest mustard processing plant.

President Obama helps Canadian farmers . . .
especially those in Alberta!
    If Obama's critics make any headway with his choice of condiments I wonder what will be next?
    If their objective is that their president only consume or use US American manufactured and processed items as an example for the rest of American's, most of America will end up shoeless and naked since most of their clothing and footwear comes from Asia.
    Regardless, I would have trouble living without mustard, but I know how to live well . . . without gods!  

                            Anton Kozlik
   

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My articles may contain words or phrases that may infer different meanings to different readers, or the reader may be unfamiliar with the term or its definition. I feel it is important to know what the writer meant when he used a word or term.

cognitive dissonance —
Filtering out information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one’s beliefs.

Editors note: I will be repeating the “cognitive dissonance” definition for quite a while since it is practiced by so many — known by so few!