Last night as I was looking for a little something to spice up my cooking, I glanced at a bottle of marjoram and I caught myself doing a double-take. According to the label, marjoram is the “G-rated version of oregano.” Huh?
At first I thought it was calling me G, as in “Yo, G, marjoram will kick up your gravy”, hence the double-take. But no, instead it was making a rather strange claim to…blandness? An odd choice for a purveyor of spices, don’t you think? And since when is oregano NOT G-rated? What rating is it — PG-13? R? XXX?! I looked at the oregano label for clues and it does say that oregano “arouses authentic flavor”. And that oregano is species O. vulgare. That’s something. I guess.
Advertisements
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
May 17, 2007 at 5:42 am
Kilikena
I’ve always thought of oregano as quite provocative. Kind of a slut, really.
May 17, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Tony
“Kick up your gravy” has now replaced “get your groove on” in the American lexicon. Well, in MY American lexicon anyway. Not that I ever used “get your groove on” before. But I’m definitely using “kick up your gravy” from here on out.