Mustard Museum Memory

In 2015-2016 I lived in Middleton, Wisconsin for a time.  I enjoyed being there but as often happens in my life, work had other ideas.  One of the things I enjoyed, too briefly, was the National Mustard Museum.

I still have this - he is a much better option than most candidates!

As a mustard lover, I eagerly volunteered to be one of their tasters for the annual championships, held on on this date in 2016.  They asked what we preferred, and because I tolerate hot and spicy well, those were some of the options provided to me:

The samples of HOT PEPPER mustards came with
cups of yoghurt to cool the palate.

Most of the mustards came with water and pretzels to cleanse the palate, except for the HOT pepper ones shown above, and two others:  the dressings arrived with celery sticks and the deli mustard came with small pieces of rye bread and corned beef.  I did not get to sample those, but I did get one bite of leftover rye bread and corned beef.

They also had samples of foods made with mustard, and recipe cards to take home:

Because I am allergic to chocolate I didn't try the brownies, although others said they were surprisingly good.  (Who knew there is chocolate mustard?)  I definitely love the jalapeño deviled eggs.  [As a side note, a friend posted a photo of deviled eggs with the caption: "It's called 'deviled eggs' because the voices whisper & make you eat 25 of them."]

I visited the rest of the museum, and its shop, although it was too crowded for many good pictures.  I ended up with just a bad one:

There are several cabinets displaying mustards from all over
the world - Japan, Sweden, South Africa, New Zealand, etc.

The museum included a number of items of punny decoration: