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As a child, I thought of condiments as lasting forever. Not just in the sense of not going bad, but in the sense of one container lasting a long time.

I have since realized this is mostly because we didn't use them very often.

mayonnaise: occasional tuna salad

mustard: occasional knockwurst, occasional Welsh rarebit

ketchup: occasional knockwurst and baked beans

How occasional? Probably much less than every two weeks, unlike the regular Thursday alternation of steak and lamb chops. (Either my parents were particularly dedicated to lamb or it was somehow much cheaper at our supermarket than it is now.)

I later learned my father used ketchup as a component of his taco filling, which suggests we actually went through that faster than I realized; not like I was doing the shopping.

Whereas now, actually using ketchup or mustard to spice up continuous batches of beans, they run out much faster...
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